Phytotherapy in Jaundice: Cotoneaster horizontalis (Shirkhest) medicinal plant for Jaundice in traditional medicine

Zolfigol, Ali; Eftekhari, Zohre

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Zolfigol A, Eftekhari Z. Phytotherapy in Jaundice: Cotoneaster horizontalis (Shirkhest) medicinal plant for Jaundice in traditional medicine. pbp 2025; 7 (2) :119-121
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Phytotherapy in Jaundice: Cotoneaster horizontalis (Shirkhest) medicinal plant for Jaundice in traditional medicine

Ali Zolfigol¹

, Zohre Eftekhari ^*²

1- Assistant Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatric Disease, School of Medicine, Shahid Motahari Hospital, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
2- Biotechnology Department , Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran , Iran , z_eftekhari@pasteur.ac.ir

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Objective: Hyperbilirubinemia or jaundice is one of the most common diseases in newborns. Jaundice must be treated because of the high risks it has for the fetus. In severe cases, jaundice may cause serious brain damage even in normal babies. To treat jaundice, light therapy, drug therapy, blood exchange or traditional medicine are used. Among the treatments that are common in the country are traditional treatments, especially herbal treatments. First, the purpose of this review is to review Shirkasht's (Cotoneaster horizontalis) treatment of jaundice in traditional medicine.
Methods: To carry out this review, the key words of Jaundice, medicinal plants, traditional medicine, extract, Cotoneaster horizontalis, Shirkasht were searched from Google Scholar, SID Scopus, PubMed databases.
Results: The results of the literature review show that medicinal plants such as milk thistle along with phototherapy can cure jaundice faster.
Conclusion: The use of medicinal plants such as milk thistle is effective in speeding up and facilitating the treatment of jaundice and should be used as a complementary medicine along with other treatments in the treatment of jaundice. Probably, breastfeeding causes the excretion of bilirubin by increasing the number of stools and urine of the baby.

Keywords: Infants, Jaundice, Bilirubin, Herbal therapy, Traditional medicine, Remedy

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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Clinical
Received: 2024/06/7 | Accepted: 2024/08/6 | Published: 2024/07/31

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