فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

  In the medical world today, the searching process to find a new drug (drug discovery) is very expensive and time consuming. Although the principles of Iranian Traditional Medicine (ITM) differs from conventional medicine, including the viewpoints to drugs and its mechanisms of effectiveness, but it seems that it is possible to find ideas to produce new drugs matching with basics of conventional medicine. In this paper, we have tried to introduce a logical and repeatable manner to find the most effective material medica in ITM references for a definite disease or sign and symptom. This manner is explained in 9 steps including: accommodation of subject, arrange keywords, determine resources, giving a score to each book, search in the references, find synonyms and classification, re-monitoring, scoring and setting priorities. After setting priority based on literature review, recommendation of each materia medica for clinical trials should be done regarding to factors such as: availability, cost, being native, fewer complications, better tasting, easy to prepare and availability to maintain long-time.