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Herbal Therapies in Iranian Healthcare
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The consequence of this is enough information of their applying of action, potential toxicity, contraindications, and interaction with existing other medicines or drugs and functional food to promote secure and permanent use of these products in Iran. Use of medicinal plants products specially in Iran and other countries has greatly improved over the last few decades with about 80% of the population of developing countries relying on them for their primary healthcare needs. Although treatments involving these agents have shown promising potential with the efficacy of a good number of medicinal plants/herbal products remarkably established, many of them remain untested and their use is either weakly showed or unclear. Since safety issues continues to be a major issue with the use of plant medicines, it is vital, for relevant regulatory authorities, to put in place decisive count to protect health of consumers by ensuring that all medicinal plants or herbs are secure and of suitable quality. This book lists some of the common herbs used in various parts of Iran which are and were used vastly. It also discusses pharmacological activities of phytochemicals and toxicity of some herbs.
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To evaluate eleven medicinal plants as natural sources that possess strong antidermatophytic, antibacterial, anticandidal and antioxidant substances with potential applications in therapeutics and food industry. Place and Duration Methodology: Twenty methanolic extracts were prepared from different parts of eleven plants used in traditional medicine in Palestine. The plants extracts were screened for total flavonoid and phenolic content using standard procedures. The crude extract was screened against six bacterial strains (Staphylococcus aureus, Proteus vulgaris, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella typhi, Escherichia coli, and Klebsiella pneumoniae), 5 Candida albicans strains, and 2 dermatophytes EJMP, 9(1): 1-13, 2015; Article no.EJMP.17429 2 (Microsporum canis, and Trichophyton rubrum). The antioxidant potential of the crude extract was also determined using the DPPH assay. Results: The best free-radical scavenging was for the leaves of Epilobium hirsutum (IC 50 =33 µg/ml) and Rhus coriaria (49 µg/ml) compared with BHA standard (9 µg/ml). The highest value of phenolics was in R. coriaria fruits (14.7 mg/g dried plant material) and for flavonoids was for Epi. hirsutum leaves (1.14 mg/g). The most active extracts against bacteria was the R. coriaria leaves (% inhibition, 66.2%) compared with gentamicin (100%) and against Candida were leaves of R. coriaria (100%) and Epi. hirsutum (72.4%) compared with amphotericin B (100%). On the other hand fruits of R. coriaria showed the best antifungal activity against all the tested dermatophytes, 97% and 86% inhibition were achieved against Microsporum canis and Trichophyton rubrum, respectively. Conclusion: Our results introduce a natural source (R. coriaria and Epi. hirsutum) that possesses strong antidermatophytic, antibacterial, anticandidal and antioxidant substances with potential applications in therapeutics and food industry.