A mini-review on the most important effective medicinal plants to treat hypertension in ethnobotanical evidence of Iran

Babak Baharvand-Ahmadi, lorestan university of medical science and Majid Asadi-Samani2, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences (2016) A mini-review on the most important effective medicinal plants to treat hypertension in ethnobotanical evidence of Iran. Journal of Nephropharmacology, 6 (1).

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Abstract

Nowadays, cardiovascular diseases are highly prevalent in human communities. Hypertension is a multifactorial disease which causes a mortality twice higher than general population. Given the fact that medicinal plants have long been used to treat hypertension and are currently being administered for this disease, we sought to report the mostly effective and important medicinal plants on hypertension therapy in ethno-botanical evidence of Iran. In this study, hypertension, Iran, ethno-botany, medicinal plants, and traditional medicine were used as key words to search in Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus, EBSCO and EMBASE to select relevant articles. The findings of this study indicated that in Iran 40 plants in various provinces are used to treat hypertension. Because medicinal plants in this study contain effective compounds and have long been used to treat and reduce hypertension, they could provide suitable research arrangements for controlling hypertension, while effective natural drugs could be developed to control hypertension if their properties are confirmed in pharmacological studies.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA1001 Forensic Medicine. Medical jurisprudence. Legal medicine
Depositing User: samira sepahvandy
Date Deposited: 26 Feb 2017 07:33
Last Modified: 26 Feb 2017 07:33
URI: http://eprints.lums.ac.ir/id/eprint/350

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