Covid

With the outbreak of Covid 19 at the end of 2019 and the spread of this pandemic around the world over the past two years, the need to use all the potential of healthcare in the face of this great health challenge has become increasingly clear. In this regard, the use of the capacity of traditional and complementary medicine, natural products and medicinal plants, which has always been emphasized by the World Health Organization and part of its strategies, especially in countries with traditional medicine schools and rich vegetation, Became more important. Iran, despite having a long-standing and rich school of traditional medicine (Iranian medicine) as well as a wide range of climate and vegetation with more than 8,000 species, is one of the important countries with high potential to use the capabilities of traditional medicine. In addition, the existence of more than a decade of academic structure for Iranian medicine, along with the country’s excellent documents on the need to integrate Iranian medicine services in the health system, has provided the basis for scientific and practical use of this potential in the country. Indeed, with the beginning of the Covid 19 pandemic, the efforts of Iranian medicine experts in the country to make maximum use of this potential along with other therapies began and many studies were conducted in this field, many of which focused on the adjuvant effectiveness of medicinal plants and many others. In order to design a drug to help treat patients with Covid 19. Many of the mentioned studies resulted in positive clinical results and some of them were placed in the country’s medicine basket with the permission of the Food and Drug Administration and as natural products. Contributing to the recovery process of Covid 19 patients based on components Approved can be used by physicians. Therefore, due to the importance of this capacity and the specialization of the subject, there was a need to publish a clinical guide based on scientific evidence and written by experts in this field, which has been collected in the form of the present article and has been periodically updated and The latest version is now available for use in the medical community.