Author/Authors :
Ghafari, Saeedeh Traditional Medicine and Materia Medica Research Center (TMRC) - Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , Tavakoli, Zahra Traditional Medicine and Materia Medica Research Center (TMRC) - Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , Shirooyeh, Pantea Department of Traditional Medicine - School of Traditional Medicine - Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , Nabi Meybodi, Razieh Department of Traditional Medicine - School of Traditional Medicine - Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , Behmanesh, Elham School of Traditional Medicine and History of Medical Science Research Center - School of Traditional Medicine - Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran , Mokaberinejad, Roshanak Department of Traditional Medicine - School of Traditional Medicine - Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , Tansaz, Mojgan Department of Traditional Medicine - School of Traditional Medicine - Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , Fahimi, Shirin Department of Traditional Pharmacy - School of Traditional Medicine - Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Abstract :
Primary dysmenorrhea (PD) is defined as painful menstrual in the absence of any pelvic pathology.
Nowadays, the first line treatment is the use of NSAIDs that unfortunately has contraindication and
side effects. Persian Medicine has noted menstrual pain with the defined treatments by use of herbs and
herbal formulations. The aim of this study is to introduce the medicinal plants used to treat menstrual
and uterine pains (M & UP) in Persian Medicine for evaluating in field of PD. For this purpose, first
the medicinal plants used to treat M & UP were listed using prominent Persian Medicine references.
In the next step, data were collected in relation to treat PD by searching in ‘Google Scholar’, ‘Scopus’,
‘PubMed’ and ‘SID’ databases between 2000 and 2016. Finally, the plants from identified Persian Medicine list, whose effect on PD have been revealed in modern literatures were introduced. According to
this review, more than 100 medicinal plants were recommended for the treatment of M & UP in Persian
Medicine. They belong to 60 plant families, the most frequent of which are Asteraceae, Apiaceae, Fabaceae, Rosaceae and Lamiaceae, respectively. Also, only about 13% of the aforementioned medicinal
plants have been evaluated for the treatment of PD. It seems that many plants have been introduced
in Persian Medicine for the treatment of menstrual pain, which have not yet been evaluated for their
therapeutic effects and precise mechanisms of action. Thus, the introduced plants could be suitable
candidates for future investigations.
Keywords :
Medicinal plants , Persian Medicine , Iranian Traditional Medicine , Dysmenorrhea , Menstrual pain
