Anti-inflammatory drugs in the texts of traditional Iranian Medicine (Tim)

Abstract

Nonsteroidal anti-inflamatory drugs (NSAIDs) and glucocorticoids, nowaday are the main groups of anti-inflamatory drugs in modern pharmacology. The side effects of these antiinflamatory drugs, specially using in chronic diseases cause many problems for the patients and the physicians, so finding the new anti-inflamatory drugs with less side effect is the aim of many researchers. WHO emphasiz to Traditional medicine as an important field of health study and Traditional Iranian Medicine (TIM) is a treasure of medications. In this study drugs with anti-inflammatory property from the point of view of Iranian scientists are investigated and the list of anti-inflamatory drugs on the basis of TIM texts has been ranked.