Abstract
Kidney failure is an irreversible condition and an important cause of morbidity and mortality in childrenworldwide. In conventional medicine, the methods of controlling these disorders and the existingtreatments in many cases seem inadequate and sometimes ineffective. Due to the growing popularity ofsociety in the use of knowledge and traditional medicine and herbal medicine, the potential of Iranianethnobotanical knowledge can be used to find more effective treatment strategies. The aim of this studywas to extract medicinal plants used in Iranian ethnobotanical knowledge in order to identify medicinalplants affecting renal failure. In this review study, keywords such as renal failure, renal impairment,hypertension, diabetes, herbs, ethnobotanics, and Iran were used. Databases such as ISI, Web ofScience, PubMed, Scopus, ISC, SID and Google Scholar were used to review articles and resources.Finally, 23 articles containing ethnobotanical information for the treatment of renal failure were used toreview the literature. Medicinal plants such as Lamium album L., Origanum vulgare, Allium sativum L.,Berberis vulgaris L., Ecbalium elaterium, Crataegus monogyna, Paliurus spina-christi Miller., Rheumribes L., Olea europea, Silybum marianum L., Teucrium polium L., Nigella sativa L., Ziziphus jujuba(L) H.Karst, Centaurea bruguieriana Hand. Mzt., Juglans regia L., Brassica Napus L. and some otherherbs. are the most important medicinal plants used to treat kidney failure and disorders.
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