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ABU ALI IBN SINA’S ATTITUDE TO MEDICINE
Umarov B.B.1, Khamidov Yo.Yo2
IBukhara State University, 
2Bukhara Institute o f Engineering and Technology 
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Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdullah al-Hasan ibn Ali Sina (980-1037) is an outstanding thinker o f the 
East and one of the founders of medicine, pharmacology, pharmacopeia and pharmaceutical chemistry. He 
is better known as Abu Ali ibn Sina (Avicenna). Scientist, philosopher, doctor, musician. In 985, Ibn Sina’s 
family moved to Bukhara, where he entered the elementary theological school, studied the Koran and the 
humanities. By the age o f 10, Ibn Sina was able to write, read, compose poetry, knew the entire Koran by 
heart, studied grammar, stylistics, poetics and other sciences. He continued his education and under the 
guidance of the famous scientist Ismail al-Zakhidan studied the teachings of Euclid and Ptolemy - from Abu 
Abdullah an Natili. In his «Canon» there are repeated quotations from the works o f ancient scientists. Ibn 
Sina was one of the first scholars to bridge the gap between East and West. He not only spread the teachings 
o f the Peripatics of the Aristotelian school in the East, but also introduced Europe to Eastern medicine. In 
the future, he independently studied natural science, geometry, astronomy, and medicine, for which he felt 
a special attraction. Avicenna’s teachers in medicine were the Gurgan physician and philosopher Abu Sahl 
Masihi. Ibn Sina studied medicine based on the works o f al-Razi, Ali Ibn Abbas (“The King’s Book”), and 
others. Ibn Sina also includes natural science as a theoretical science, to the branches of which he attributed 
chemistry and medicine.
The famous work o f Avicenna «The Canon of Medicine» outlines various methods and recipes for 
the preparation of simple and complex pharmaceuticals, and also reveals the theoretical and practical foun­
dations for solving this important problem for mankind. He was the first to develop and put forward the 
principle of delivering the active principle of the drug to the affected area. Another principle used by 
Avicenna is the way in which the action o f the medicine is carried out in deeper organs. For example, to 
bring the healing effect of camphor to the heart, saffron is added, and when they reach the heart, a separating 
force begins to act, which separates the saffron from camphor and neutralizes it, while camphor performs 
its function.
Avicenna for the first time introduced the concepts o f “readiness period”, “shelf life” of a pharmaceu­
tical product; if this rule is neglected, the medicinal product cannot exhibit its pharmacological properties. 
The “Canon o f Medicine” gives an example of the preparation o f the universal antidote “mitridate”, widely 
used for many centuries, it contained 57 components, and its preparation time was 6 months. According 
to Avicenna, the best medicine is freshly prepared, because over time, the therapeutic effect of the drug 
decreases. Based on this, the expiration date of the pharmaceutical agent is currently determined and estab­
lished. This rule is justified by the fact that during the storage o f the drug under the influence of external 
factors, as well as as a result o f the interaction o f the components o f the drug with each other or the ingredi­
ents of the material o f the container in which the drug is stored, the composition, structure and therapeutic 
effect o f the molecules responsible for biological activity may change. The main provisions o f the logic of 
Abu Ali ibn Sina have survived to this day. Various sources say that Abu Ali ibn Sina wrote more than 450 
scientific works, of which only 280 works have come down to us.
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