title: The most common herbal medicines affecting Sarcomastigophora branches: a review study.
abstract: Parasitic diseases cause annual mortality of more than 200 thousand people. Currently many drugs are used to treat parasitic diseases; however, they are mostly expensive, toxic, with side effects and drug resistance. Medicinal plants have been shown to represent natural source of cheap drugs with low toxicity. In this review article, the most common and most effective herbal medicines on pathogenic protozoan Sarcomastigophora branches such as Trypanosoma, Leishmania, Amoeba, Trichomonas and Giardia were reviewed. The recently published papers about different drugs as well as herbal medicines as alternative for synthetic drugs were searched using scientific sites such as Medline, PubMed and Google Scholar. The used terms included: Medicinal plants, herbal medicine, protozoa, Trypanosoma, Sarcomastigophora branches, Leishmania, Amoeba, Trichomonas or Giardia.
authors.affiliation: Razi Herbal Medicines Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran.
authors.forename: Mahmoud
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bahmani
authors.affiliation: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Kourosh
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saki
authors.affiliation: Medical Plants Research Center, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran. Electronic address: rafieian@Yahoo.Com.
authors.forename: Mahmoud
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rafieian-Kopaei
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Seyed Ahmad
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Karamati
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biomedical Research, Postdoc of Veterinary Medicine, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran; Vet Graduated, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Zohre
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Eftekhari
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Mahyar
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jelodari
keywords: Amoeba; Herbal medicine; Leishmania; Medicinal plants; Protozoa; Sarcomastigophora branches; Trichomonas, Giardia; Trypanosoma