1Department of Internal Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, IR Iran 2Department of Pathology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, IR Iran 3Nickan Research Institute, Isfahan, IR Iran 4Medical Plants Research Center, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, IR Iran *Corresponding Author: Mahmoud Rafieian-Kopaei, Medical Plants Research Center, Sh...

background: iran is a land of great heritage of ancient medical scholars. herbal medicines, as a basement of treatment of diseases have been clearly described in the medical texts of these scholars including rhazes, avicenna, and others. numerous plants are introduced in these texts to treat those diseases likely to be infective ones. few attempts have been made to evaluate ethnopharmacological...

BACKGROUND There is a hierarchical organisation of knowledge in the use of medicinal plants in communities. Medicinal use knowledge starts in the home and is passed on to family members. Next in the hierarchy are neighbours, village elders and finally, traditional healers being the most knowledgeable. For primary health care this hierarchy is actively followed in seeking remedies for ailments. ...

Fatemeh Zare Shahneh*, Samira Valiyari , Abbas Azadmehr, Reza Hajiaghaee, Ali Bandehagh, Behzad Baradaran Immunology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran Department of Medical Biotechnology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran Department of Immunology, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceutics, Department of Medicinal...