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An overview of the most important medicinal plants with anti-toothache property based on ethnobotanical sources in Iran
S. Ghamari, R. Mohammadrezaei-Khorramabadi, Mahnaz Mardani, Somayeh Shahsavari
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Abstract
Tooth is an organ exposed to pain with infection and other factors. Today toothache has great widespread. With the advancement of science, tendency of people to return the environment has increased so that environment orientation by increasing acceleration has become to the global phenomenon. Medicinal plants in the treatment of dental pain have been shown to be useful so in this study we tried to identify and report the medicinal plants used in traditional medicine resources to treat toothache. In this review, search for articles by keyword of toothache, Ethnobotanical, Iran and medicinal plants was carried out. Search wasdone in databases such as Scopus, ISC, SID, magiran, and a number of the other data base. Based on results obtained from the review of Iran ethnobotanical texts, it was found that Iran's 28 native medicinal plants are used to treat toothache. The present of the compounds in presented plants (Iran's 28 native medicinal plants) may indicate that the pain relief of these plants might be due to flavonoids. © 2017, Pharmainfo Publications. All rights reserved.