popular beliefe of the of the people during the Qajar period with an emphasis health and medical folk beliefs

Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research

Leila Amraee ¹ , amir akbari ² , omid sepehri rad ³ , رجبعلی وثوقی مطلق ⁴

1 - Department of education working teacher .
2 - professor assistant history department Islamic Azad University Bojnourd
3 - professor assistant history department Islamic Azad University of Bojnourd
4 - استادیار، گروه تاریخ، واحد بجنورد، دانشگاه ازاد اسلامی، بجنورد، ایران.

Received: 2022-12-16 Accepted : 2023-07-01 Published : 2023-02-20

Keywords: Qajar period, comonbelieves, medical science,

Abstract :

Falk medicine a mixture of superstition and false beliefs and sometimes signs of traditional medicine.that mostly deals with folk belifes and superstitions and has never been expressed in an experimental or philosophical school in a coherent way.the en counter of traditional Iranian medicinewith modern western methods caused extensive changes in its previous process. The dominant method of medicine in the society of the Qajar era was traditional medicin but this method of medicine with all its briliant historyin the past has been popularized mix with some superstitious beliefs There was a stagnation in the work of doctors and modern medicine surpassed traditional medicine due to the of culturaleducational and the penetration of the superiority of modern medicine.this reserch using a descriptive-analytical method and using documents and library sources aime to investigate the factors that created the basis for the presence of existence these doctors in the Iranian society during the Qajar era the place of folk beliefs in maintaining health as well as their treatment methods.ignorance poverty and misery the miserable life that most of the people of the Qajar era faced the restrictions and neglect of women in society and family life and polygamy and many other reasons caused the change in beliefs and opinions.the people will be harmed and the tendency towards superstitions will increase to get rid of the problems that plagued them.