The ethnopharmacological review of medicinal plants in uses hypertension treatment in Iranian complementary medicine

Abstract

<strong>Background & Aim:</strong> One of the most common diseases in the world, especially among Iranian people, is high blood pressure which can cause many cardiovascular disorders such as heart attack. The disease is often associated with other diseases such as diabetes and hyperlipidemia. Methyldopa and captopril are the most common drugs among several medications used to control blood pressure in Iran. Nowadays, herbal medicines are very prevalent because medicinal plants have least of the side effects. Various herbals are used in the Iranian traditional medicine to improve hypertension, but among them, barberry, olive leaf, garlic, celery, sumac and hibiscus are the most prevalent. <strong>Experimental:</strong> In this paper, the most herbs in uses in treatment of hypertension were studied and these effects of natural products on these plants were clarified. <br/><strong>Results & Discussion:</strong> The results indicate that these plants and their phenolic compounds can be used as an alternative or supplement to chemical medicines used to control blood pressure. <strong>Industrial and practical recommendations:</strong> There is suggestion for pharmaceuticals and food industrials to use of these herbs for improve new methodology in herbal drugs production.