Abstract

Despite amazing advances in treatment of many diseases, man has not yet managed to treat some medical problems. Spinal cord injury (SCI) is one of the problems of today’s medicine. Scientists are through various ways of treating SCI. World Health Organization (WHO) has enumerated use of traditional medical treatments authorized for documented and substantiated cases. In Iranian traditional medicine there have been some different treatment methods which have been used. Some of the medical plants have been presented in this paper. These plants (herbs) have as per Iranian traditional medicine been utilized for paralyzed patients, therefore orientation with these herbs may conduce a way out in finding a new path for treatment of SCI.

Key words: Spinal cord injury (SCI), scientists, traditional medical.