Abstract

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the joints characterized by a specific plan of destruction for bones and joints. Rheumatoid arthritis risk factors include genetic, hormonal, environmental and nutritional, and socio-economic factors, age and sex, ethnicity, smoking, infections, and so on. Treatment of inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis is practiced based on traditional medicine in many countries. Many native medicinal plants of Iran have effective properties on hemorrhoid. Thus, in this review, the effective medicinal plants of Iranian ethnobotanical resources on hemorrhoid were reported. In the current review study, a search was done for articles by the keywords urinary retention, ethnobotanical, and medicinal plants. A search on the databases, such as Scopus, ISI C, S ID, Mega Iran, and a number of other databases was performed. 27 herbs from different parts of Iran are traditionally used for the treatment of urinary retention. Medicinal herbs, such as yarrow, oat, colchicum, dill, fennel, wild rue, bitter melon, willow, garlic, burdock, etc. are of the native medicinal plants of Iran, which are effective on the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. © 2017, Pharmainfo Publications. All rights reserved.