Crocus sativus L. (Saffron, Fam. Iridaceae) is a medicinal, commercial, historical and economically important plant that has been used in the treatment of various diseases since ancient times. Saffron, which generally by public to add flavor color dishes, difficult cultivate harvest due use only dried stigmas known as most expensive spice world. The macroscopic microscopic properties samples so...

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...