background: increase in world population is one of the serious and threatening issues in this century. therefore, it is vitally important to find safe and effective contraceptive methods, especially for men which already have few choices in this regard. medicinal plants that were used for contraception in ancient times could be good sources of investigation in this filed. ruta graveolens l. is ...

introduction: traditional iranian medicine (tim) is accompanied by little side effects in experience. the mechanisms involved in tim are not much clear. the purpose of this study is assessment of differences of warm and cold nature persons in neuroendocrine system and cytokine pattern (th1/th2) of immune responses. methods: thirty seven 20 to 40 years old male volunteers were divided into 2 gro...

history of medicine is a treasure of interesting experiences of humankind to treat diseases. traditional medicine is a major part of this long history. world health organization (who) encourages all countries to extend their complementary and traditional medicines and support trained practitioners in this field. this strategy can lead to finding new treatments and opening new horizons to the he...

conclusions poly herbal cream experimentally and histopathologically revealed a burn wound healing activity probably due to the antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial activities of its phytochemical contents. therefore, this study confirms the use of m. sylvestris, s. nigrum and r. damascena in burn prescriptions in itm. results there was a significant improvement in healing percentag...

In most areas of the world, camelids are considered exotic animals, living only in zoological gardens. Additionally, considering original lands where they were previously bred with specific economic and social aims, today it is possible to detect a reduction their total numbers. Typically as working animals for goods transportation desert regions, source meat milk, recent years, camels have bee...

Background Measles is a contagious illness with symptoms including fever, cough and rash. Although after the start of vaccination, its mortality rate has decreased significantly, but in some countries, the disease still leads to dangerous complications. Since infectious diseases such as measles has long been of interest to practitioners, in this study the perspective of Traditional Iranian Medi...

The content of vitamin C, vitamin B2 and fat-soluble vitamins E and A in camel milk was studied. The milk samples were collected from 20 individual camels (Camelus dromedarius) in two different occasions. The study showed that camel milk contains considerably less vitamin A and B2 than cow milk while the content of vitamin E was about the same level. The level of vitamin C was in average three ...

traditional knowledge can be used as a source for development of new medicines. in the present study, we compare the data on saffron in razi's al-hawi book with modern scientific studies. a computerized search of published articles was performed using medline, scopus as well as native references. the search terms used were saffron, crocus sativus, crocetin, crocin, safranal, razi, and al-h...