1. In the name of GOD APTMNet Iranian Nodal Station Activities Status INTERNATIONAL CONCLAVE ON TRADITIONAL MEDICINE 16th and 17th November 2006

2. Traditional Medicine in Iran First written information on properties and therapeutic uses of Medicinal Plants in “Avesta book”. 250 AC Jondishapour university in actual Khouzistan province was an important scientific center, especially in the field of Medicinal Plants based drugs. This university had also a hospital and produced different kind of herbal based drugs. In 550 AC, a world medical congress which gathered medical practitioners from all over the world was organized in Tysphon.

3. Iranian medical practitioners have gained a world reputation through their scientific works: “Canon” by Avicena (980-1037 AC )...Traditional Medicine in Iran

4. “Al Havi” and the identification of ethanol by Rhazes (865-925 AC )

5. “Zakhireh Kharazmshahi” by Hakim Jorjani (1042-1136 AC )...Traditional Medicine in Iran

6. Traditional Medicine in Iran Actually TM practices are widespread through all over the country and the Ministry of Health is doing great efforts to enhance and standardize these activities.

7. www.aptmnet.ir Website development

8. …Website development  Host Server IP : 62.60.137.165  DNS IPs: 62.60.137.2 - 62.60.137.3  Database infrastructure already set.  Information gathering for some databases (Natural Medicine Resources, R&D Development) require heavy funding.  See possibility of getting UN-APCTT funding.

9. Hardware  Web Sever 2 sets ProLiant ML370 G4 Tower Model  Processor: Intel ® Xeon ™ Processor 3.20 GHz/1MB  Memory: 2GB Total REG PC2-3200(4x512MB)  Drive Cage: Hot plug drive cage – Ultra3(6x1")  Storage Controller: Integral Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI Adapter  RAID setting

10. …Hardware  4 Hard Drives: 72.8GB Pluggable Ultra320 SCSI 10,000 rpm Universal Hard Drive (1")  Network Card: NC7781 Single Port PCI-X embedded NIC  Additional Network Card: HP 7771 PCI-X Gigabit Server Adapter  Multi media bay 1: 48X IDE CD-ROM Drive  Monitor: LG17” flat 2 sets  PC Desktops 2 sets  PC PIV processor  512 MB DDR RAM 80 GB HDD  CDROM  Default accessories  HP LJ Printer with USB port  HP Scanner  Digital Camera (SLR)

11. Software  Database: SQL Sever 2005  Programming: ASP, VBscript  Graphic: Macromedia Flash

12. Database development Enterprises and products: more than 34 enterprises involved in medicinal plants related activities and more than 300 medicinal plants species available at commercial scale have been identified. Standards and regulations: available. News: already functional. One of the goals assigned to this part is to identify and facilitate the cooperation between different organizations involved in medicinal plants related activities (Islamic Medicine Research Center, Iranian Traditional Medicine Association (www.tim.ir), Medicinal Plants Research Center of Shahed University ( www.mprn.ir), Iranian CAM website ( www.cam.ir ) and …www.tim.irwww.mprn.irwww.cam.ir

13. …Database development www.mprn.ir

14. …Database development www.cam.ir

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