Evaluation of the use of honey bee products in prevention and treatment of depression in women (review)
Tārīkh-i pizishkī i.e., Medical History,
Vol. 13 No. 46 (1400),
7 February 2021
,
Page 1-10
https://doi.org/10.22037/mhj.v13i46.34755
Abstract
Background and Aim: Depression is a mood disorder that includes boredom, inactivity, and apathy. It can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, feelings, happiness and health. People with depression may experience feelings of unhappiness, anxiety, emptiness, hopelessness, helplessness, worthlessness, shame, or restlessness. Depressed people may also lose interest in enjoyable past activities; They have trouble to remembering details and making decisions, have trouble in their relationships, and think about suicide or similar behaviors. On the other hand, sadness is one of the important emotional symptoms that is described in traditional medicine as the gradual movement of the soul which inwards and is one of the main criteria for depression.
Materials and Methods: This study, which is a library review, is evaluating the methods of preventing depression based on the principles of health that mentioned in Iranian traditional medicine and foreign references by using the honeybee products including honey and royal jelly.
Findings: Honey bee products have long time background and important role in the prevention or treatment of mental illness in the prescriptions of Iranian traditional medicine. Honey has been used to warm the mind and relieve depression, royal jelly has been used to relieve premenstrual boredom and pollen has been used to relieve low memory due to depression.
Ethical Considerations: From the beginning to the end of the article, the principle of honesty and trustworthiness has been observed.
Conclusion: All The references of traditional and modern medicine confirms that bee products such as honey and royal jelly, both physiologically and temperamentally, have the ability to reduce the effects of depression in women.
Cite this article as: Dadgostar Sh. Evaluation of the use of honey bee products in prevention and treatment of depression in women (review). Medical History Journal 2021; 13(46): e30.
- Depression; Traditional Medicine; Honey; Royal Jelly; Bee Pollen
How to Cite
References
De Saussure F. Course in general linguistics. Columbia University Press; 2011.
Mostafavi J. Definition of Tempeaments (Mezaj) in ancient Persian medicne. Gohar. 1972;2: 77-3. (Persian).
Naseri M RH, Taheripanah T, Naseri V. Temperament Theory in the Iranian Traditional Medicine and Variation in Therapeutic Responsiveness, Based on Pharmacogenetics. Journal of Islamic and Iranian Traditional Medicine. 2010;1(3):237-42. (Persian).
Ahanchi O, Saeedimehr M. Rereading the Concept of Temperament Based on the Modern Medicine Falsafe-ye Elm. 2011;1(2):1-23. (Persian).
Mojahedy M, Naseri M, Majd-zadeh R, Keshavarz M, Ebadiyany M, Nazem E, et al. A Review on Identification Mizaj (Temperament) Indices in Iranian Traditional Medicine (ITM). Medical history. 2014;4(12):37-76. (Persian).
Yousefifard M, Parviz M, Hosseini M, Ebadiani M, Keshavarz M. Mizaj; past, present and future. Physiol Pharmacol. 2013;16(4):328-39.
Ahmadi M, Javadi M, Barikani A, Beheshti A, Ansaripour M. Reliability and validity of a questionnaire to measure temperament Jebeli. jiitm. 2014;5(1):34-40. (Persian).
Mojahedi M, Naseri M, Majdzadeh R, Keshavarz M, Ebadini M, Nazem E, et al. Reliability and validity assessment of Mizaj questionnaire: a novel self-report scale in Iranian traditional medicine. Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal. 2014;16(3) . (Persian).
Sheikh-Roshande H, Ghadimi F, Alizadeh M. Development and assessment of the reliability and validity of natural and transverse temperament questionnaires. Journal of Islamic and Iranian Traditional Medicine. 2015;6(1): 23-42. (Persian).
Salmannezhad H, Mojahedi M, Ebadi A, Mozaffarpur SA, Alipoor A, Saghebi R, et al. Design and Validation of Mizaj Identification Questionnaire in Persian Medicine. Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal. 2018;20(11):1-9. (Persian).
Mojahedi M, Alipour A, Saghebi R, Mozaffarpur SA. The Relationship Between Mizaj and Its Indices in Persian Medicine. Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal. 2018;20(5):4-1.
Parvizi MM, Nimrouzi M, Pasalar M, Salehi A, Hajimonfarednejad M, Amini F, et al. Association Between Personality Types and Temperament (Mizaj) Based on Persian Medicine. Shiraz E-Medical Journal. 2018;19(12(.
Rezai H, Mohseni Takalu MT, Zamani P, Heravi F. Relationship between temperament and stuttering severity in Persian speaking subjects with advanced stuttering. Journal of Islamic and Iranian Traditional Medicine. 2014;5(2):101-7. (Persian).
Sharifi S. Language and Genetics and the New Findings of Scholars about Language Gene Language and Linguistics. 2006;2(3):99-108. (Persian).
Munroe RL, Munroe RH, Winters S. Cross-cultural correlates of the consonant-vowel (CV) syllable. Cross-Cultural Research. 1996;30(1):60-83.
Ey E, Fischer J. The “acoustic adaptation hypothesis”—a review of the evidence from birds, anurans and mammals. Bioacoustics. 2009;19(1-2):21-48.
Chapuis C. Un exemple de l’influence du milieu sur les émissions vocales des oiseaux: l’évolution des chants en forêt équatoriale. La terre et la vie. 1971. (French).
Morton ES. Ecological sources of selection on avian sounds. The American Naturalist. 1975;109(965):17-34.
Seddon N. Ecological adaptation and species recognition drives vocal evolution in neotropical suboscine birds. Evolution. 2005;59(1):200-15.
Boncoraglio G, Saino N. Habitat structure and the evolution of bird song: a meta‐analysis of the evidence for the acoustic adaptation hypothesis. Functional Ecology. 2007;21(1):134-42.
Peters G, Peters MK. Long-distance call evolution in the Felidae: effects of body weight, habitat, and phylogeny. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2010;101(2):487-500.
Maddieson I, Coupé C, editors. Human language diversity and the acoustic adaptation hypthesis, Acoustical Society of America; 2015.
Maddieson I. Language adapts to environment: Sonority and temperature. Frontiers in Communication. 2018;3:28.
Everett C. Evidence for direct geographic influences on linguistic sounds: The case of ejectives. PloS one. 2013;8(6):e65275.
Everett C, Blasi DE, Roberts SG. Climate, vocal folds, and tonal languages: Connecting the physiological and geographic dots. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2015;112(5):1322-7.
Everett C. Languages in drier climates use fewer vowels. Frontiers in psychology. 2017;8:1285.
Nadjmabadi M. History of Persian medicine after Islam (from appearance of Islam to Mongol Era). Tehran: Tehran university press; 1996. (Persian).
Gorgani E. Zakhirih- e- Kharazm- Shahi. Tehran: Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences; 2001. (Persian).
Ahvazi A. Kamel al-Sena'a at-Tibbia. Tehran: Institute of islamic studies of Tehran university-McGill University; 2009. (Persian).
Naseri m, Rezaei-zadeh h, Choupani r, Anoushirvarni M. A review of generalities of the Persian medicine Tehran: Entesharat-e tebb-e sonnati-ye iran 2019. (Persian).
Abu-Ali-Sina S. Qanoun. Tehran: Soroush publications; 2019. (Persian).
Eslami M. Phonology Analyzing the IntonationSystem of Persian Tehran: Samt; 2005. (Persian).
Yip M. Tone. Cambridge University Press; 2002.
Martinet A. Eléments de linguistique générale. France: Colin; 1961. (French).
The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) [Internet]. 2021. Available from: https://wals.info.
Annual Average Temperature Map. USA: Annual Average Temperature Map; 2021. Available from: http://berkeleyearth.org/.
Lynn R, Vanhanen T. Intelligence: A unifying construct for the social sciences. Ulster Institute for Social Research; 2012.
Madden D. Ranked: The 25 Smartest Countries In The World. forbes. 2021.
Hall DA. Encyclopedia of Japanese martial arts. Kodansha USA; 2012.
Wilson WS. Ideals of the Samurai. Writings of Japanese Warriors. 4. UK: Black Belt Communications; 1982.
Fusé T. Suicide and culture in Japan: A study of seppuku as an institutionalized form of suicide. Social psychiatry. 1980;15(2):57-63.
Zaloga SJ. Kamikaze: Japanese Special Attack Weapons 1944–45. Bloomsbury Publishing; 2011.
Levene M, Roberts P. The massacre in history. 1: Berghahn Books; 1999.
Chang I. The Rape of Nanking. UK: Penguin; 1998.
Pellegrino F, Coupé C, Marsico E. A cross-language perspective on speech information rate. Language. 2011:539-58.
Hilton NH, Schüppert A, Gooskens C. Syllable reduction and articulation rates in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. Nordic Journal of Linguistics. 2011;34(2):215.
Coupé C, Oh YM, Dediu D, Pellegrino F. Different languages, similar encoding efficiency: Comparable information rates across the human communicative niche. Science advances. 2019;5(9):eaaw2594.
Miller L. Verbal listening behavior in conversations between Japanese and Americans. The pragmatics of international and intercultural communication. 1991:111-30.
Maynard SK. On back-channel behavior in Japanese and English casual conversation. Linguistics. 1986;24(6):1079-108.
Iwasaki S. The Northridge earthquake conversations: The floor structure and the ‘loop’sequence in Japanese conversation. Journal of Pragmatics. 1997;28(6):661-93.
- Abstract Viewed: 434 times
- PDF (فارسی) Downloaded: 180 times