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Avicenna & Modern Medicine

First Multilingual Natural Medicine Compendium

A comprehensive, unique and free digital platform focused on Avicenna's medical works and modern medicine, built to structure, preserve, analyse and retrieve information.

For informational, educational, historical and research purposes. Not medical advice.

How a record is laid out

Avicenna medicine

Traditional uses of natural medicines in Avicenna's views (Canon of Medicine).

Read side by side
Modern medicine

Clinical studies with referenced overviews, categorised by disease, disorder or symptom, with therapy types included.

Neither is presented as evidence for the other.

About Us

Our Team

The Avicenna and Modern Medicine Compendium (beta version) is a joint effort of health and computer scientists. We are a team of dedicated professionals comprising university/higher education institute faculty, researchers, and scientists. Our team of researchers and scientists has worked in diverse scientific fields and is equipped with a diverse range of skills. In addition, we have a review team of clinical and veterinary scientists. Our team worked virtually, and this compendium is online. We are looking for volunteers/translators to contribute to this knowledge database and translate it into other languages: Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Malay/Indonesian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai.

Health and Medical Sciences

Dr. Muhammad R. Manwar

Ph.D.

Project Founder, Chair, and Chief Scientist

(Author, Editor, Faculty, and Learner of Emerging Sciences)

Brief Profile Summary

Dr. Muhammad (PhD) has research experience in rapidly emerging health sciences, including hereditary disorders and cancers, bacterial genomics, and gained skills in emerging facets of bioinformatics, pharmacogenetics, food and environmental sciences, and glycomics. He was a Member of the Genetics Society of America (2022-2025). In different capacities, he has served higher education institutions (including public-sector/government universities) in Asia and the Middle East. He made editorial contributions to quality international health and life science journals as a Topic Editor.

In collaboration with the UK, China, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia scientists, he published peer-reviewed articles on rapidly emerging biomedical science facets in quality (e.g., Q1/Q2 ranking) journals. His publications have been cited in well-respected journals (including top-notch Q1-ranked journals). He attended scientific events (conferences and meetings) in Asia, the Gulf, and Europe. Moreover, he has been invited to share his insights, ideas, and expertise as an Invited/Keynote Speaker and Conference Track (Session) Chair at international events (conferences). He shared his research insights and knowledge with experienced scientists from different world regions, including Asia, Europe, Turkey, and Africa.

His research focus, learning, and strengths comprise rapidly evolving health sciences, including cancer glycobiology and genomics, hereditary disease genetics, bacteriology and immunology, apitherapy, pharmacogenetics, environmental chemistry and biology, food sciences, and public health genetics. To maximize potential health benefits to patients with hereditary disorders and cancers, he has been passionately learning about human disease biology, food sciences, glycobiology, genomics, bioinformatics, bacteriology and immunology, environmental health, and pharmacogenetics since 2012.

Computer Sciences Team

Dr. Muhammad Mudassar

Ph.D. in Computer Sciences

Director and Chief Scientist in Computer Sciences

(Associate Professor)

Dr. Muhammad Mudassar (Ph.D. in Computer Sciences), an Associate Professor, leads the team responsible for the computing and software components of this compendium or knowledge database development. He has been engaged in several projects, including halal food sciences and fault tolerance in autonomous vehicles for the last many years. His research interests and learning include distributed computing, big-data processing frameworks, fog computing, fault tolerance, and edge computing.

Ans Rehman

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Ans Rehman developed this multilingual knowledge database compendium under Dr. Mudassar, and he is responsible for cloud architecture, infrastructure, and security. He advises early-stage startups on their infrastructure, covering cloud platform selection, architecture and environment design, cost control, and security posture. He has worked on a diverse range of projects, including multi-cloud migration and modernisation, cloud cost engineering, infrastructure security and server hardening, security assessment and penetration testing, DevOps automation, and full-stack web platform development.

What is the Avicenna & Modern Medicine Compendium?

A structured record of historical (e.g., Avicenna’s medicine) and clinical (evidence-based modern science) data on important natural medicines, including foods and herbs.

This freely accessible compendium or knowledgebase brings together scattered medieval texts, source references, and modern clinical, animal, and preclinical studies on natural medicines in one structured platform that will help a wide range of science learners, researchers, and scientists, including medical doctors, pharmacists, microbiologists, dietitians, nutritionists, food chemists, herbal chemists, geneticists, herbalists, veterinary doctors, and healthcare professionals.

Knowledge about medicinal plants, herbs, and natural medicines exists in different formats and forms: classical medical literature, including Avicenna’s text, local or regional names, regional or ethnopharmacological aspects and household practice, and modern clinical literature. This is the need of the hour: to create a single multilingual platform offering comprehensive information on Avicenna and modern medicine, animal growth, and veterinary medicine.

Avicenna & Modern Medicine Compendium organizes information with a consistent layout, capturing the identity with the natural medicine’s scientific name (nomenclature), English and regional or local names, documented therapeutic uses in Avicenna or traditional medicine, and clinical trial (phase I/phase II/phase III) profiles alongside their citations. In addition, preclinical evidence and animal studies or veterinary medicine aspects for each natural medicine. The resulting database supports bidirectional searching, allowing users to trace a specific natural medicine to its studied medical conditions (disease, disorder, or symptom), or look up a disease, disorder, or symptom to see its associated natural medicines listed in this knowledge database.

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What each search record contains?

Each category corresponds to relevant information in this initial version of the knowledgebase (knowledge database).

Multilingual namingNames recorded in English, Urdu, Turkish, Arabic, Persian, and other local languages alongside the scientific name.
Therapeutic profilesIncludes seven categories: natural medicines’ therapeutic potential for anticancer/antiaging, antidiabetic, PCOS/PMOS (management of women’s health problems, liver health issues, and cardiovascular), wound healing, and analgesic.
Modern medicine & clinical study recordsStudy descriptions with the disease/disorder/symptom addressed, therapy type, and the references.
Avicenna & natural medicineTraditional uses of natural medicines and their analogy with modern medicine.
Animal farming & veterinary medicineNatural medicine role in animal growth and immunity, and veterinary medicine in this digital age.
Preclinical studies and signaling mechanismsNatural medicine evaluation in preclinical studies and signalling contexts with biochemical and health-related chemistry.

Historical arc

From ancient medicine to modern sciences and evidence

Natural medicine from Avicenna's text remains alive in many countries, including Iran, the Arabian Peninsula, America and Asia. From the USA to the UK, from Europe to Asia (including China), and across the Arabian Peninsula (e.g., the Arabian Gulf), herbs and traditional medicine have a long history.Clinical trials, clinical studies and preclinical studies performed in Europe, the United Kingdom, Africa, America, Asia and Arab countries have evaluated the safety and efficacy of widely available medicinal plants and natural products in humans that we included in this compendium (knowledge database) as “impactful natural medicines”. These natural medicines have been evaluated in clinical and preclinical studies for their therapeutic potential in human and animal health, including livestock natural growth and immunity improvement.

  1. Classical medicine

    Avicenna medicine

  2. Continuing

    Traditional knowledge and household practices

  3. Modern medicine in the digital era

    Avicenna & Modern Medicine compendium

Database extension

Planned

Natural medicine entries and historical evidence from other Muslim medical scientists

We intend to extend this database compendium by adding more entries on natural medicine, including more historical evidence of medicine.

Avicenna & Modern Medicine Compendium

Cluster of Information and Bridging the Gaps

Features, Analogy, Structuring and Text retrieval (FAST)

  1. Therapeutic Features and Multilingual Names

  2. Avicenna & Modern Medicine bridging and analogy

  3. Animal farming, growth performance and veterinary medicine (e.g., livestock growth, immunity and veterinary traditional medicine)

  4. Scientific research and future perspectives

Database preview

The knowledge database as it stands today, and its progress

This is the preliminary version of the compendium, and we will keep expanding it.

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Why this matters

Why is a multilingual, structured database with evidence-based sciences necessary in this digital age?

  1. A Broader Overview: Therapeutic Potential, Avicenna and Modern Medicine, Animal Farming and Veterinary Medicine

  2. Compare the two records (Avicenna and Modern Medicine)

  3. Animal sciences and natural medicine

  4. Knowledge preservation

  5. Structured access of information with ease (single click)

Start with a natural medicine, or start with a disease/disorder/symptom.

Search the records, and read the Avicenna entry beside the clinical one.