background & aim: herbal medicine usage is prevalent among world people from a long time ago and, it has been five times from 90th to 97th in the usa. according to increasing usage of herbal drugs and investigating the knowledge, beliefs and function of patients to herbal drugs, this research was done. experimental: it is a descriptive, cross sectional study which carried on 30 patients who...

background & aim: the traditional knowledge about medicinal plants is the basic step in many drug productions. traditional medicine and herbal drug have absorbed attraction of many world authorities. using medicinal plants has developed in many countries even those with a vast use of chemical drugs. ethno-botanical studies result in documentation of many useful plants. in these studies the ...

malaria is a major international public health problem. drug-resistant parasites have made treatment and control of malaria more difficult. therefore, safe, affordable and effective new drugs are urgently needed. traditional medicine is an important source for new drugs. determining the ancient medicinal books was the first step of this study for finding malaria or disease that has symptoms lik...

objectives this double-blind randomized clinical trial assessed the effects of dried leave of s. hortensis on the serum sugar levels, lipid profiles, high-sensitivity crp (hs-crp), and blood pressures of 60 metabolic syndrome patients referred to the healthy heart institute in shiraz, iran during 2013. materials and methods first, components from the essential oil of the plant powder were ident...

background: finding scientific data from the holy qur'an is an old trend, which emerge newly with rise of modern science. in the literature, we have found that total number of medicinal plants cited in the holy qur'an varies author to author. objective: the aim of this study was to indentify the plants mentioned in the holy qur'an and to confirm the botanical name with other relevant informatio...

background: hand eczema (he) is a dermatological disorder with frequent relapses and multiple causes such as atopic, allergic and irritant contact dermatitis. the management is complex because of the wide range of different pathogenesis. efficacy of some of available treatments is not well established and it can affect patients’ quality of life significantly. methods: reports on he such as diag...

conclusions traditional medicine based on certain plants could be of beneficial effects in hypertension treatment. results in total, 52 species out of the 135 (39%) screened, gave more than 50% ace inhibition. forty species were found to possess a high ace inhibiting ability and were low in their tannin content. materials and methods in the present study 135 plants used in traditional persian m...

background & aim: one of the most common diseases in the world, especially among iranian people, is high blood pressure which can cause many cardiovascular disorders such as heart attack. the disease is often associated with other diseases such as diabetes and hyperlipidemia. methyldopa and captopril are the most common drugs among several medications used to control blood pressure in iran. now...

background:the use of herbal or medicinal plants in various forms has been popular for thousands of years. it is estimated that about 70–80% of the world’s population relies on alternative medicine, mainly of herbal origin. however, due to the nature and sources of these plants, they are sometimes contaminated with toxic heavy metals, which pose serious health risks to consumers. herbal formula...

background and objectives: iran owns a rich and prestigious heritage of medicinal herbs but the majority of these plants have not yet undergone chemical, pharmacological and toxicological studies. in the present study some species form northern parts of iran were evaluated for cytotoxicity. methods: sixteen medicinal plants were extracted with methanol and screened for their cytotoxic activitie...