Asadbeigi Mohsen, Mohammadi Tahereh, Rafieian-Kopaei Mahmoud, Saki Kourosh, Bahmani Mahmoud, Delfan Mohammad
Razi Herbal Medicines Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran.
Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
Asian Pac J Trop Med. 2014 Sep;7S1:S364-8. doi: 10.1016/S1995-7645(14)60259-5.
To identify, present and review the respiratoty medicinal plants which used by Urmian herbalists.
The list of traditional healers of West Azarbaijan Province was prepared and data were obtained by direct observation, interviews and the questionnaires After that, herbarium samples were collected from the desired area and deposited in herbarium unit of the Faculty of Agriculture, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran.
Our results demonstrated that 20 medicinal plants from 10 plant families are used to treat respiratory disorders. Also, the most plant part that used for treating of respiratory disorders was seed (27%) and the most traditional form prescribed by herbalists was boiled (54%). Forty three percentage of Urmia herbalists have used herbs for the treatment of cough.
People in this area have a strong belief that plants have a positive impact in the treatment of respiratory disorders and they have used medicinal plants since ancient times to treat these disorders. Our study revealed the importance of herbal medicines and traditional medicine in this area as medicinal resource for drug discovery in future.
识别、展示和综述乌尔米草药医生所使用的呼吸道药用植物。
编制西阿塞拜疆省传统治疗师名单,并通过直接观察、访谈和问卷调查获取数据。之后,从目标地区采集标本并保存在伊朗乌尔米亚大学农学院标本馆。
我们的结果表明,来自10个植物科的20种药用植物被用于治疗呼吸道疾病。此外,用于治疗呼吸道疾病的最常用植物部位是种子(27%),草药医生最常开出的传统剂型是煮剂(54%)。43%的乌尔米草药医生使用草药治疗咳嗽。
该地区的人们坚信植物对呼吸道疾病的治疗有积极作用,并且自古以来就使用药用植物治疗这些疾病。我们的研究揭示了草药和传统医学在该地区作为未来药物发现药用资源的重要性。