Scientific Evaluation of Pharmacological Treatment of Osteoarthritis in the Canon of Medicine.
Osteoarthritis is the most common articular disease worldwide. Nonetheless, common osteoarthritis treatments are either not effective or associated with side effects. Now the materials derived from plants have found a relevant place in drug discovery. Until the mid-18th century, osteoarthritis in all medical schools worldwide had been managed as general arthritis. Avicenna, the famous scholar of Iranian traditional medicine has provided a long list of herbs that have been used traditionally to treat arthritis. To gain this worthy list, we searched his most famous medical masterpiece: Canon of Medicine Some of these materials are investigated and employed by modern medicine. However, it is difficult to ignore that still more of these naturally occurring materials could be of use in modern medicine not only to prevent osteoarthritis progression but also osteoarthritis management as natural anti-inflammatory drugs.
['Choopani|Rasool|R|', 'Ghourchian|Anahita|A|', 'Hajimehdipoor|Homa|H|', 'Kamalinejad|Mohammad|M|']
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pharmacological treatment osteoarthritis Canon of Medicine Iranian traditional medicine