Medicinal Plants Used in Traditional Persian Medicine

Author Biography

Hartwig Schulz (Edited By) Prof. Dr. Hartwig Schulz has specialized in the field of aromatic and medicinal plants for many years. He was employed for about 10 years within the research department at Symrise in Holzminden and then moved to the Federal Institute for Cultivated Plants (JKI) in Quedlinburg and Berlin as Institute Director. After his retirement (August 2019) he initiates and supports various projects in the field of medicinal and aromatic plants. Farsad Nadjafi (Edited By) Prof. Dr. Farsad Nadjafi from the Shahid Beheshti University, Medicinal Plants and Drugs Research Institute, in Tehran, is also managing director of the company MateriaMed GmbH in Vienna. He has many contacts to institutes working in the field of Traditional Persian Medicine and will review the relevant Persian/Arabic literature. When selecting the plant species, priority will be given to (endemic) plant species that have been more or less unknown in Western medicine up to now. Seyed Ahmad Emami (Edited By) Prof. Dr. Seyed Ahmad Emami from the Department of Pharmacognosy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences in Iran has special expertise in pharmacognosy of medicinal plants occurring in Iran. From 1998 up to now he supervised numerous students during their academic education and he performed research projects in different fields (e.g. isolation and identification of new compounds, Traditional and Islamic Medicine, occurrence of Iranian endemic plants, study on Islamic culture and civilization). He published his results in numerous scientific articles (English and French) and in 24 books (Persian and Arabic language), respectively.