background traditional medicines are among the oldest medicines and their extensive use in the recent years reflects the public’s interest in alternatives to conventional medicine. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the genotoxicity of dillsun herbal medicine in dna damage of rat hepatocytes compared to sodium dichromate using a comet assay technique. materials and methods male...

background previous reports have shown that quince seed might have some healing effects on skin ulcers in rabbits. objectives to assess the potential healing effect of quince seed cream on human skin ulcers. patients and methods the present study was a double-blind, randomized, controlled trial. fifty patients with skin ulcer caused by disposable biopsy punch 5 mm were allocated in two groups (...

conclusions in this patient, traditional medicine treatment improved the patient's general well-being, hematopoiesis and portal hypertension. furthermore, it improved his quality of life, although it had no effect on his liver function. we recommend more clinical trials on therapeutic effects of iranian traditional medicine on cryptogenic cirrhosis. introduction there are several disorders that...

hot flash is among the most common complaints of menopausal women, affecting their career, social activities and quality of life. this study aimed to investigate the effects of valerian on hot flashes in menopausal women. in this double blind clinical trial, 68 menopausal women with the chief complaint of hot flash were enrolled using sampling at hand and were randomly divided into drug and pla...

conclusions garlic and zmb vaginal cream 2% can be used as an effective treatment option in cases of drug resistance and, also, by the people who are interested in treating with herbal medicines. results before treatment, all patients had positive candidiasis fungi culture, in both groups (100%). the positive culture was 14.1%, 15.2%, 10.3%, respectively, on day 7 after treatment and 2.6%, 0%, ...

background: data suggest that v. arctostaphylos, b. thunbergii var. atropurpurea, e. angustifolia and l. acanthodes may prevent gastric ulcers induced by non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (nsaids). objective: to explore the ulcer-protective potential of these plants in indomethacin-induced gastric ulcers in rats. methods: saline, hydro-alcoholic extract of each plant (100, 400, 800 mg/kg) a...

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...

salvia leriifolia benth. (vernacular names such as nuruozak and jobleh) is a perennial herbaceous plant that grows exclusively in south and tropical regions of khorasan and semnan provinces, i. r. iran. unlike other species of salvia genus, the chemical constituents of s. leriifolia are not well recognized. the stem oil of the plant consisted mainly both monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes, while i...

objective: this review will indicate the quality of the evidence supporting the clinical effects of a number of commonly used types of herbal medicines for psychiatric and neurological disorders. method: we conducted a review of literature to understand the biochemical and evidential bases for the use of herbs in psychiatric and neurological disorders as follow: 1) alzheimer’s disease, 2) depre...

one of the horizons that always directs human to discover unknowns is nature and its valuable substances. although it is a new branch in medicine but it has a valuable place from ancient times. during continuous years, natural drugs especially herbal drugs had became the base and even in some cases the only way for treatment and their primary substances are still being used in pharmacological i...