Etnobiological and Phytotherapeutic Analysis of Medicinal Herbs of Azerbaijan Flora Used at Cardiovascular Diseases Treatment

Information about ethnobiological methods of more than 25 medicinal herbs spread in Azerbaijan flora used by people at cardiovascular deseases for centuries have been provided in the articcle. Also instructions on their use in presentday phytotherapy have been qiven here. Ethnobotanical characteristics of the herbs and the recipes were shown originated from ethnic sense that have come to the present day being used since the ancient times. Introduction The curative properties of the herbs known are to mankind since ancient times. “If there are thousand diseases, be aware there are more than thousand cures” said our ancient ancestors used thousands of herbs, flowers, plant roots, fruits and vegetables in the plant cover and cured their disease by medicines obtained of plants. Such natural medicines have been successfully tested while the people got acquainted and used. Also they haven’t lost their significance even today – in the age of technical progress, vice versa they increased it. Even scientific medicine that approached to folk medicine jealously before also recognizes its importance today. For a long time the use of medicinal herbs is carried out on the basis of such improved and comprehensive scientific data that it paves the way for a prompt eradication of each disease [Damirov, 1988; Aliyev, 1988; Kerimov, et all., 1996].Today the use methods of medicinal herbs is multilateral: use of medicinal herbs juices, raw salads, infusion, cooking, ointment et.al., direct delivery of their bioactive substances effect to pathological processes occurring areas create an opportunity for the body's immunity in the raw of the patient’s cure. It should be noted that medicines prepared of herbs never cause any mischief or harm. The use of medicinal herbs, creation of the population's confidence in this treatment method is not less important from the ecological point of view too. So, a person tested the importance of herbs in human life and their therapeutic effect on himself would never stay indifferent and agnostic to the richness of nature and protect it bravely and confidently. A lot of very interesting and effective medicine prescriptions and receptions have been compiled by an Azerbaijani physician and healer Omar Osman in the Middle Ages. The doctor’s special diet regime at heart diseases is of a great interest. Omar Osman used to prescribe to his patients diet dessert, sorbet, sweet wines, honey, as well as baked or boiled cucurbit and carrots. Medicinal herbs being investigated in the Republic of Azerbaijan are studied by present-day botanists, phytochemists, pharmacologists and clinicians in a complex way [Gadimov, 1997; Ibadullayeva, 2001; 2004; Gasymov et all., 2009; Ibadullayeva et al., 2010; 2011; Mammadova et all., 2011]. They are widely used for medical purposes. On the result of the carried out long-term studies and ethnic surveys a lot of significant data on the medicinal herbs used in folk medicine have been acquired and was determined that in the area 164 herbs are widely used in folk medicine [Ibadullayeva et al.,2013]. Some of these are cultured plants widely used in our daily food diet ration as follows: Citrullus Lanatus L., Fumaria officinalis L., Brassica oleracea L., Zea mays L., Linum usitatissimum L., Mentha piperita L., Avena sativa L., Petroselinum crispum (Mill.) A.W. Hill., Anethum graveolens L ., Phaseolus vulgaris L., Foeniculum vulgare Mill., Raphanus sativus L., Allium sativum L., Allium cepa L., Allium ursinum L., Beta vulgaris L., Capsicum annum L., Cucurbita pepo L., Sinapis alba L ., Solanum lycopersicum L., Daucus sativus Roehl., Ocimum basilicum L., Oryza sativa L., Solanum tuberosum L., Melissa officinalis L.