Abstract
Bioactive compounds of medicinal herbs have possible health benefits with antioxidative, anticarcinogenic, antihypertensive, antimutagenic and antimicrobial activities. Iranian folk medicine is rich of various herbs which have been employed as drug for treatment of various diseases and disorders since ancient times. The present paper provides a brief overview of the medicinal benefits of some important endemic herbal plants of Iran. Studies on these herbs have revealed that they contain powerful active components that might be effective for increasing human health. The main results of the most important recently researches on the medicinal properties of these plants also mentioned in this review paper.
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