Role of Personalized Medicine Approach in Traditional Medicine

Personalized medicine means a right diagnosis and treatment at the right time with the right cost provided to a right individual. This therapy reduces the incidence of potential side effects, eliminate invalid treatments, improve the effectiveness of treatment and, ultimately, achieve optimum results in its health. Holistic, space-time dynamics and individual variance are three distinctive characteristics of traditional medicine.This medicine enjoys a holistic approach and is based on individual differences in which the concept of temperaments (Mizaj) is determinant. Like a fingerprint,all people have their own unique temperaments which affect their health condition.Temperament is made up of four basic elements whose interaction with each other, in specific ratios. This ratio can be extremely different.The basic elements are water, fire, soil, and wind. Temperaments are divided into 9 groups: moderate, warm, cold, dry, wet, warm and wet, warm and dry, cold and wet, cold and dry.The health of every individual depends on the maintenance of the temperament in a state of balance and imbalance in body temperament or distemperament that can be a cause of disease in humans. Internal and external factors such as ethnicity, age, gender, types of diet, lifestyle, weather, seasons and location can affect on these temperament. In the meantime, similar to any natural material such as food and beverage, the herbal medicines have their specific temperament. Individuals are needed to be categorized according to their different temperament and receive suitable treatment according to their temperament. A similar disease may have different presentations with different temperaments.Each herbal medicine may show specific response according to each person s temperament. Therefore, one should also consider the temperament of that specific herbal medicine and compatible herbal medicines need to be prescribed according temperament of each individual patient. Accordingly, the type of medicinal plants and their doses can be different. Traditional medicine can be a main approach to personalized medicine in the future.Other advantages of personalized medicine in traditional medicine will be available to the public and at a lower cost.