seyed hamid reza alavi ia u pharmaceutical sciences branch, and medicinal plants research center narguss yassa department of pharmacognosy, faculty of pharmacy, and medicinal plants research center fatemeh fouladi department of pharmacognosy, faculty of pharmacy, and medicinal plants research center mohammad ali maasumi department of pharmacognosy, faculty of pharmacy, and medicinal plants research center yousef ajani department of pharmacognosy, institute of medicinal plants, acecr tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran abbas hadjiakhondi tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran