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'Kurdish Ethnomedicine: A Neglected Treasure Trove'

The Kurd are an Iranian-speaking ethnolinguistic group mostly inhabiting a region that includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. Kurds constitute approximately 7.0% of Iran's overall population. Their existence in such a small land caused unfortunate and familiar disputes, though from a purely academic point of view this circumstance creates an opportunity for research in many fields, among which we can cite anthropology and ethnopharmacology. The land itself is unique, in its natural diversity due to its geographical location at the meeting point of four aforementioned countries. Different climatic, phytogeographic, and zoogeographic zones converge here, creating great biological multidiversity. The ethnic groups which compose this impressive mosaic in this land retained to varying degrees their languages, religions and traditional medicine. However, the diversity of medicinal substances in this land is not a new phenomenon.

The Kurd have been used herbal drugs and formulations to treat diseases of both man and animals. Although many Persian texts and articles published about the Kurdish herbs, Dr Isaac Karimi for the first time has introduced "Kurdish ethnomedicine" to the modern literature.

Dr. Isaac Karimi was born in 1979 in Laybid, Meymeh, Isfahan. He is an Iranian Physiologist that teachs physiology and biochemistry in Razi university of Kermanshah. He is working on the pharmacological effects of native plants that grown in Kurdish parts of Iran.