دلالات الألوان في تشخيص الأمراض و علاجها في العراق القديم

Abstract EN

Color has important implications in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in ancient Iraq, each color appears on one of the body members of the patient refers to the nature of his illness, and contributes to the diagnosis between a fatal illness or difficult to cure or cureable disease, and therefore the difference of these colors is very useful in knowledge The symptoms of the disease, and then properly diagnosed and given appropriate treatment for him based on prescriptions, interspersed with pharmaceutical combinations of different colors, whether the colors of some fabrics and threads included in the recipe, or wrapped in the composition of medicine that heals the disease either by the priest, By the doctor "Asu".

It is known that this priest "Ashibu" was the colors of animals passing through the path of the patient's house, and rely on the colors shown on his body in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease, and was practicing magic ritual wearing the clothes of certain colors have an impact in the expulsion Evil spirits causing illness from the patient's body.

Hence, the color has been influential in the diagnosis and treatment of cases of organic and psychological diseases in the old Iraq medicine.