Teb(medicine)as described by Avicenna on the opening pages of the al-Qānūn fīal-Tibb(The Cannon of Medicine)was“a science by which one learns the conditions of the human body in health and in the nonexistence of health to keep health or to bring it back”.According to Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine and other traditional Persian medicine(TPM)resources,the observance of the six essential qualities provides guidance to any medical intervention. Teb (medicine) as described by Avicenna on the opening pages of the al-Qānūn fīal-Tibb (The Cannon of Medicine) was “a science by which one one learns the conditions of the human body in health and in the nonexistence of health to keep health or to bring it back ”. According to Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine and other traditional Persian medicine (TPM) resources, the observance of the six essential qualities provides guidance to any medical intervention.