Title : Commercial drugs in traditional Iranian medicine
Abstract:
Traditional Persian medicine has long been treating patients with different kinds of natural therapies. Traditional drugs are natural compounds produced according to the different therapeutic characteristics of medicinal plants. In very old times, despite the lack of pharmaceutical facilities, scholars produced a variety of dosage forms for different diseases. Today, we still believe in the therapeutic properties of the plants and the efficacy of traditional medicaments. Persian medicine is more than a thousand years old. Similar to classical medicine usage of drugs is very common in this school of medicine. The drugs in Persian medicine are divided into materia medica and combined medicines. In the book Canon of medicine written by Avicenna, there are 800 single drugs. About 80 percent of them are derived from plants. This shows that the knowledge of Persian medicine was very active and progressive. Moreover, Persian scholars strived to develop the knowledge of drugs and the improvement of therapeutic methods in traditional medicine. Barij essence pharmaceutical company is the largest manufacturer of herbal drugs in Iran. This company has been successful in producing and commercialization a variety of herbal drugs and traditional products in Iran. Some of these drugs are:Violet Syrup ) Cough, fever,laxative), Jalinus Syrup (Anti-nausea during pregnancy, Stomachic, Dyspepsia remedy) , Hemobalance Syrup) Blood diluent and purifier (complementary treatment for fatty liver and metabolic syndrome(, Anar Syrup (Appetizer ) , Alzstop Barij (Memory enhancer, prevention and treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease ), Green Carmine Carminative, dyspepsia remedy and stomachic), Laxa plus (Constipation treatment ), Herbotamol (Shortness of breath, cough especially phlegmatic cough, asthma ), Greenfit Barij (Effective in body weight loss).
