Ethnopharmacology a powerful tool in the treatment of diseases with medicinal plants

Ethnopharmacology is a powerful tool that paves the way for the discovery of new drugs by creating opportunities for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary collaboration as well as gaining valuable information about medicinal plants used in different cultures. Ethnopharmacology is the observation, identification, description, and experimental study of the components and clinical effects of indigenous drugs and a multidisciplinary field of study based on botany, pharmacology, toxicology, phytochemistry, and chemistry, but related to other disciplines such as anthropology. In fact, the scientific study of biologically active substances has traditionally been used or observed by humans. In this work, medicinal plants from different parts of Iran such as Bushehr Hillah River, Tangestan, Bushehr, Genaveh, Kurdistan, Kerman, Sistan. Baluchistan and ... were calculated and studied by Relative Frequency of Citation and Cultural Importance Index for each medicinal plant in the city. A wide variety of medicinal plants such as Zataria multiflora, eriophora DC, Foeniculum vulgare, Teucrium polium, Haplophyllum tuberculatum, Cuminum cyminum, Plantago psyllium, Nigella sativa, Cichorium intybus, Citrolus colocynthis ,... and edible plants such as barberry, kiwi, onion, etc. in these areas showed some of these plants They are used for various diseases and research on these medicinal plants can be the beginning of a way to discover new drugs in the field of treatment. The most common medicinal uses of plants are for gastrointestinal diseases, obstetrics, respiratory diseases, infectious diseases, hot tempers and metabolic diseases, respectively. Research on these medicinal plants can be the beginning of a way to discover new drugs in the field of treatment. We also realize that everywhere in our country Iran is rich in pastures, natural resources and medicinal plants that can be done with ethnopharmacology method to do a lot of research on the properties of plants and prove their medicinal properties.

کلیدواژه ها:

Ethnopharmacology ، medicinal plants ، treatment ، food plants.