Medical Concepts in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh

hahnameh (The Book of Kings) is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Tusi (940–1020 AD), between c. 977 and 1010 AD. Shahnameh, comprising more than 50,000 couplets, is a national epic of Iranians and Farsi speaking people. There are many philosophical, social, ethical and romantic as well as medical concepts in the content of Shahnameh. This brief letter presents some examples of medical concepts in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh that denotes the antiquity and originality of medicine in Iran