Medicinal plants form the basis of sophisticated traditional medicine system that has been in existence for thousands of years, which continue to provide mankind with new remedies. Herbal plants are consumed worldwide for the treatment of several diseases and such plants are the important source of raw material for pharmaceutical industries. As a micronutrient, heavy metal plays an essential ro...

background & aim: a herbarium is a collection of preserved plant specimens. herbarium specimens form an important recorded of what plants grew where over time. kerman province with area about 171993 km2 has a lat of difference vegetation because of climatic and topography variations. it has different elevation (above sea level) from 300 m in shahdad to 4420 m in hezar mountains. material &...

Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) is considered as one of the common diseases in the world. Treatment of peptic ulcer with synthetic drugs such as proton pump inhibitors, H2 receptor antagonists and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs has shown adverse effects, relapses, drug interactions. Medicinal plants containing active chemical constituents are useful in prevention and treatment of variou...

Plants are an important source of biologically active substances, therefore they have been used for medicinal purposes, since ancient times. Plant materials are used as home remedies, in over-the-counter drug products, dietary supplements and as raw material for obtention of phytochemicals. The use of medicinal plants is usually based on traditional knowledge, from which their therapeutic prope...

A notable amount of medicinal plants grow in Iran and local communities in different parts of the country have developed a deep knowledge of various uses of plants during their old history. Several ethnobotanical studies have been conducted by the Traditional Medicine and Material Medica Research Center (TMRC) to investigate the use of medicinal plants by local people. Some of these studies hav...

in countries having traditional medicine (tm), one of the main challenges for any researcher is research methodology. current methodologies are different with what was in past. the main purpose of this article is to present the steps (herbs, claims and methodology) of research in tm fields. 1. assessment of herbs history, method of study, quality assessment, efficacy, safety, toxicity and the...

background medicinal plants with natural antioxidants have been shown to be beneficial in a variety of complications such as anxiety. the elevated plus-maze (epm) is one of the most widely used models to assess anxiety in small rodents. objectives this study was designed to characterize the anxiolytic-like activity of borago officinalis (linnaeus, family boraginaceae) or borage flowers extract,...

antioxidants have important preventive roles, not only on undesirable changes in the flavor and nutritional quality of food, but also on tissue damage in various human diseases. some of iranian plants, despite wide spread use of them as medicines in iran have been investigated for their beneficial use as an antioxidants or source of antioxidants. the present review deals with a list of such pla...

The criteria that local people use for selecting medicinal plants have been a recurrent topic in pharmacology and ethnobotany. Two of the current hypotheses regarding this phenomenon, ecological apparency and diversification, attempt to explain the inclusion of "apparent" and "non-apparent" and native and exotic taxa, respectively, in local pharmacopoeia. This study addresses the following ques...