HISTORY OF HOMEOPHATHY IN IRAN
History of homeopathy in Iran can be classified
into two time periods. In the first period, some homeopaths were
involved in medical practice discretely, and undoubtedly the late
Dr. Baharmand can be counted as the first Iranian homeopath.
He, in 1924, began homeopathic medical practice in an office
adjacent to the British embassy. After him, we can name the
late Dr. Tabibi
who continued practice of homeopathy in the vicinity of Karimkhan
Street in Tehran, and delivered homeopathic medications to the
patients with cooperation of the Red Crescent. The last one
of the previous
generation of homeopaths was Professor Jam who is one of the founders
of Tabriz faculty of medicine and. He has facilitated extension
of homeopathy by holding several seminars in this faculty.
Now Dr Jam
is living at the age of 90.
The second generation of homeopaths is indebted to Dr. Naaseri
who has aerospace
doctorate degree. The movement begun by him in Iran (1993) led
to holding homeopathy classes in Tehran Islamic Azad University,
school
of medicine and also in Urmia University. But because he was
not a physician, he was treated unkindly by health and treatment
authorities
and consequently he returned to England.
Presence of Dr. Mirzazadeh in Iran (1995) was counted as an adverting
point regarding in this progressive trend. At that time he was officially
invited by the authorities of Ministry of Health and came from Germany
to Iran. Initially he attempted to educate a small group of homeopaths
generously and afterwards the same group themselves became homeopathy
experts and trainers.
Here, we must name Mr. Gholam-Hossein Beheshti who has always played
an effective role in promotion of homeopathy. He has had an important
role in holding homeopathy classes as well as in teaching it, particularly
the philosophy of homeopathy. In this line, he has paved the path
for development and extension of homeopathy throughout the country
via holding different seminars in various culture centers.
On October 26th in 1995, the Supreme
Council of Assessment of the Ministry of Treatment and Medical
Education recognized
homeopathy
as a therapeutic method, and finally in January 16th in 1999
the regulations related to homeopathic physicians were communicated
by
the Minister of Health, Dr. Farhadi, to the education deputy
of the Ministry and it was communicated to the medical sciences
universities
for fulfillment in January of the same year.
After legitimization
of this field, nine physicians decided to establish a homeopathy
association and upon this they submitted
a request to
the Ministry of Interior. After a while, Ministry of Health
and Treatment and Medical Education replied positively to the inquiry
from Ministry
of Interior by the letter No.: A/10001, and eventually the
permit
for commencing activities of the association was issued, and
at last the association founder board composed of Dr. Mazaherinezhad,
Dr.
Movaffagh, and Dr. Yousefizadeh, after preparing articles of
the association attempted and held general assembly of the
founders board
under supervision of the official representative of the Ministry
of Interior in December 20th, 2001. The 5-member administrative
board was selected under votes of 130 homeopathic physicians
in October
2002 for first time and in October 2005 the 2nd administrative
board has been selected as follow:
- Dr. Ali Mazaherinezhad as president
- Dr. Fazel Hamidbehnam as vice president
- Dr. Farbod Rahnamaie Chitsaz as General Secretary
- Dr. Arash Ahmadi as Treasurer
- Dr. Behnoosh Nooshee
And finally in March 2003, Tehran University agreed
with holding homeopathy classes under title of "Free Classes”.
This course continues at the present time.
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