Chapter Number
10
Authors
Bashar Saad
Omar Said
Pages From

209
Pages To
253
Book Title
Herbal Supplements: Efficacy, Toxicity, Interactions with Western Drugs, and Effects on Clinical Laboratory Tests
Editor(s)
Amitava Dasgupta
Catherine A. Hammett-Stabler
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Edition
1
ISBN
9780470922750
Abstract

Arab-Islamic medicine finds widespread use in most Arab and Islamic countries, which
represent about one-fifth of the world's population. The Arab and Muslim world refers in a
geopolitical sense to Muslim majority countries or countries in which Islam dominates
politically. About 25% of Muslims live in the Indian subcontinent, 20% in sub-Saharan Africa,
17% in Southeast Asia, 18% in the Arab world, and 10% in the republics of the old Soviet
Union and in China; Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan comprise 10% of the non-Arab Middle ...