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Dear Researchers, Scientists, Clinicians, Medical Doctors, Healthcare Practitioners, Apitherapists, Wellness Innovators, Veterinary Doctors, Dietitians, Food Chemists, Medical Herbalists, Holistic Medicine Experts, Oncologists, Microbiologists, Geneticists, Integrative Medicine Experts, and Students,

Welcome to our Avicenna and Modern Medicine Compendium.

Our natural medicine compendium is a single structured ecosystem that brings together clinical trials, preclinical research, signaling contexts, management contexts, multilingual names, Avicenna and modern medicine analogies, animal health and growth performance, and the veterinary natural medicine potential of widely available natural medicines and impactful foods. In this digital era, where misinformation is rampant, this platform centralizes knowledge on all aspects of natural medicine, eliminates fragmentation and misinformation, provides the scientific community with a trusted foundation for future research and literature review, and opens new frontiers for discoveries in emerging areas of natural and integrative medicine.

Database Project Timeline and Collaboration

From 2020 to 2024, I reviewed the literature, collected data on herbs and natural medicines, and filtered 50 natural medicine entries based on safety, therapeutic efficacy, and their medicinal applications, as evaluated in scientific studies and historical medicine. From 2024 to 2025, I presented this idea at scientific events and meetings as talks, lectures, and seminars. In 2025, Dr. Muhammad Mudassar (Ph.D.) agreed to collaborate on this project with his team. He is supervising and directing all computer-related tasks with his computer science group.

We believe that collaboration and partnership are the key drivers of progress in health sciences and medicine, including adjuvant natural medicine. Therefore, we welcome those interested in collaboration to accelerate this project. We also welcome translators (volunteers) to publish this compendium in other languages.

How this Compendium or Knowledgebase will help current era large language leaning models (LLMs) or AI chat-based learning models?

AI is facing numerous challenges in emerging health and medical sciences in this digital age. Our science-backed compendium, with evidence-based information and scientific references, will help current AI models (e.g., chat-based reinforcement learning models)/ LLMs learn from authentic data and information, and help users (e.g., students and researchers) struggling to find information on impactful foods and natural and integrative medicine. In the future, we will develop a prediction/ large language model for natural and integrative medicines.

We strongly welcome researchers and scientists who are interested in collaborating with us in this domain.

Why did we make the initial version of the Compendium public?

Some of my relatives have died from cancer and liver diseases, and one of my relatives is still battling the cancer disease.

When a doctor tells a patient that they have stage 4 (last-stage) metastasized cancer and that modern medicine cannot help them survive and that they may die within the coming few months (e.g., 4-5 months), could you imagine the feeling of that patient or their family? What options are available to such cancer patients, particularly the adjuvant or supportive role of natural medicine in managing oral mucositis, xerostomia, febrile neutropenia, and radiation dermatitis in cancers? Could they discuss integrative natural treatment options (e.g., multimodal natural medicine treatment options alongside standard care) with their doctor/oncologist to help manage the disease or its symptoms?

This centralized, science-backed knowledge database on impactful foods, natural medicines, and apitherapeutic products will help doctors, healthcare professionals, physicians, and surgeons make effective therapeutic communication with their patients about natural medicine options in light of clinical studies/trials or scientific evidence. Therefore, we decided to launch the preliminary version of this compendium to help doctors with integrative medicine concepts (adjuvant therapies). Search the term cancer in the compendium search bar and retrieve currently available evidence-based options for cancers evaluated in clinical studies.

Numerous clinical studies and trials (Phase I, II, and III) evaluated the therapeutic role of natural medicines for disease-specific conditions and compared them with standard modern-day medicines.

In the developing world, people already face numerous health challenges, and the cost of disease management, treatment, or care can be a major barrier, particularly in lower-income countries. Considering the high cost of medicines for disease treatment and management, including cancer surgeries, kidney stone surgeries, cell therapies, osteoarthritis management, viral diseases such as hepatitis, treatment for resistant bacterial infections, hereditary disorders diagnosis, prognosis, and management, and cancer treatment (chemo- and radiotherapy) and care, and the limited therapeutic options for most inborn (hereditary) diseases, herbal or natural medicines and their nutraceuticals offering cost-effective multimodal therapeutic ways of disease management, particularly in lower-income countries/developing world. So, this compendium will help medical doctors, nurses, healthcare staff, microbiologists, food chemists, pharmacists, dietitians, and researchers and scientists in health and medical sciences, particularly those working in the developing world.

Adjuvant Role of Natural Medicine in Numerous Diseases including Hereditary Disorders

Search the term “Refsum disease” in our compendium to retrieve referenced natural/integrative medicine information about this hereditary (inborn) disorder.

My Personal Experience of Natural and Integrative Medicine

My father’s daily fasting glucose level reached 180 mg/dL, even though he was continuously taking the standard antidiabetic medication (metformin HCl and gliclazide [sulfonylurea]) as recommended by his medical doctor (endocrinologist). After consulting his doctor, he began drinking one cup of herbal tea daily, prepared with crushed black cumin and fenugreek seeds, powdered cinnamon bark, and a pinch of pink salt (for flavor), as an additional (adjuvant) therapy alongside his antidiabetic medication. Within one week of using polyherbal herbal tea his fasting glucose reached to 90 mg/dL. I chew a mixture of crushed black cumin (N. sativa) and fennel seeds, and powdered cinnamon bark, whenever I feel headache. Recently, the skin on two fingers of one of my family members was severely burnt while working in the kitchen. She applied a paste of powdered black cumin seeds, cinnamon bark, fennel seeds, and organically pure honey to the burn, and her skin healed within 2-3 days. Foods and herbal remedies may offer health benefits, particularly as adjuvant therapies (integrative medicine), and medical doctors and healthcare professionals in the developing world should consider available clinical trials, studies, and scientific evidence on natural medicines when making therapeutic communication with patients—seeking effective adjuvant natural medicines.

Traditional Chinese Medicine for Management of Coronary Heart Disease and Associated Symptoms

Search the term “Tongmai Yangxin”, a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), in our compendium, and you will retrieve referenced information about the role of this polyherbal TCM in managing a wide range of symptoms of coronary heart disease, including angina, chest pain, and palpitations.

Veterinary Medicine and This Compendium

How many scientific studies have screened veterinary medicine residues in animal-based food products, and how many suggested natural medicines as an alternative to veterinary medicine (including antibiotics) that may accumulate in the animals’ bodies?

This compendium will help veterinary doctors, particularly those practicing in the developing world improve the health, growth, performance, and quality of animal products through alternative natural medicines.

We strongly hope our Avicenna and Modern Medicine Compendium will help advance future research in natural and integrative medicine, and to develop standards, guidelines, and analytical protocols.

We welcome your feedback, comments, suggestions, and collaboration proposals for this freely accessible food and natural medicine compendium— Avicenna and Modern Medicine Compendium.

I am also thankful to whole team who made this effort alive.

I wish a good health and happy life to you and your loved ones.