A Review on Medicinal Plants Used for Nausea and Vomiting in Persian Medicine
Nausea and vomiting are common digestive symptoms of various illnesses, pregnancy, chemotherapy and motion sickness. They are very unpleasant and affect the quality of life. There are many drugs to control nausea and vomiting but in many cases they are uncontrollable, so helping to new drug discovery is necessary to control of these symptoms. This article showes the plants that used to control these syptoms in Persian medicine books such as: Canon of medicine, Al-Abnieah, Tohfeh, Ekhtiarat, Al-shamel and makhzanul-advieh. About 126 plants were identified to treatment of nausea and vomiting and in this paper 94 plants were presented. The most medicinal plants for the treatment were: Citrus lemon, Berberis vulgaris, Malus domestica, Mentha piperita, Valeriana officinalis and Zingiber officinale.
