« Health in Persia: i. Pre-Islamic Period ». EIr 12, fasc. 1, (2003), pp. 102 - 104.

Health as a result of humour and the use of right ‘measure’; it is a notion already prevalent within pre-Islamic Pahlavi inscriptions. When physical sickness strikes, it is a matter of finding a right balance again by keeping the body in good health and good soul. This is obtained in practice through the knife, through plants and through sacred words, with the last one being the most effective; not in the least because sickness appears primarily to be the result of supernatural forces. Albeit..