Ancient Persian medicine’s dietary recommendations for restless people feeling blue, especially during winter time:

How can we best deal with great heat and dryness? In traditional Persian medicine, abstinence and prevention precede any treatment. For instance, health can be maintained by

The philosophy behind eating herb rice with fish on the eve of the Persian new year: One common tradition of the Iranians on the eve of the new year consists

For me, it’s as easy as drinking water. This is a Persian saying used when somebody wants to show that he’s capable of doing something. But is it really so

How should we shape our diet in order to keep the temperament within our body in balance and to not get sick? Every food, drink and drug has its own

In Avicenna’s medicine there are two temperaments, cold and warm. They further separate into the categories warm and dry, warm and wet, cold and dry and cold and wet.

The theory of temperaments is a comprehensive science which offers interesting applications for the diagnosis of humans’ physical and mental characteristics and is very effective in the identification and

We, Lina Karam and Romain Hintermann, are the founders of Swisspica. We already had a long-lasting friendship when we took the great decision in a café in Zurich