Herbal-medicine

elageagnus angustifolia
Elaeagnus angustifolia, commonly called Russian olive,silver berry,oleaster,Persian olive,or wild olive,or commonly referred to as senjid or sinjid in Afghanistan and senjed in Iran, is a species of Elaeagnus, native to western and central Asia, Afghanistan, from southern Russia and Kazakhstan to Turkey and Iran. It is now also widely established in North America as an introduced species.
In Iran, the dried powder of the fruit is used mixed with milk for rheumatoid arthritis and joint pains. It is also one of the seven items which are used in Haft Seen or the seven 'S's which is a traditional table setting of Nowruz, the traditional Persian spring celebration.

Herbal-medicane

Iran, in terms of geographic situation, climate and one thousand years history in traditional medicine, and also having well-known philosophers, has special and outstanding position all around world. According to this ecology, Iran has 11 climates from 13 common international climates which turns Iran to origin of more than 1000 different plant species and this rate is two to three times more than plant species in Europe. This diversity and valuable medicinal properties break Iran into the list of main countries with herbal medicine potentiality. Recent researches have shown that over 2300 species of Iran plants hold medicinal, hygienic and cosmetic properties. Moreover, 1728 species of aforementioned plants are recognized as originally domestic plants which growing up solely in Iran and are considered as exclusive capacity in our country.