Twelve vegetables used for prevention and treatment of hemorrhoids in Persian Medicine.

Andarkhor Pouran, Khodadoost Mahmood, Kamalinejad Mohammad, Talaie Ramin, Gachkar Latif, Zargaran Arman

Journal: Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan 2020;39(4):466-473

PMID: 32186093

Abstract

OBJECTIVE

To review the role of vegetables to prevent and treat hemorrhoids in Persian Medicine (PM).

METHODS

We search main Persian Medicine manuscripts, including the books of Liber Continens, Canon of Medicine, Great Elixir, Akbarie's Medicine, Storehouse of Medicaments and Present for the faithful. Also, it was considered by searching in reference books and published papers with the help of PubMed, Scopus, Google scholar databases.

RESULTS

Twelve vegetables, relating to 8 plant families, have been found in PM that their effectiveness involved in laxative, anti- inflammation, antimicrobial, analgesic and wound healing.

CONCLUSION

Our findings suggest that 12 Persian Medicine vegetables can be used to prevent and treat hemorrhoids.

Address: Department of Traditional Medicine, School of Traditional Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.; School of Pharmacy, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.; Shahid Modaress Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.; Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.; Department of Traditional Pharmacy, School of Persian Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

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https://medlineplus.gov/hemorrhoids.html

MeSH Terms: Hemorrhoids, Humans, Medicine, Traditional, Phytotherapy, Plant Extracts, Plants, Medicinal, Vegetables