Effective materia medica on delivery in Traditional Persian Medicine

The pain of labor and its stress has caused an increasing tendency to delivery via caesarean. Using procedures and methods of decreasing the pain of labor can facilitate it and causes more tendencies toward natural childbirth. Traditional Persian Medicine’s (TPM) Physicians proposed and used some managements and medications to decrease childbirth pain.
In this literature review research, we searched materia medicas that were used in reducing the pain of delivery (normal and non- normal) in nine reference books of TPM including: Almansoris (Rhazes), Al-Qanon (Avicenna), Al-Abnieh a Haghayegh al-Advieh, Zakhireye Kharazmshahi (Jorjani), Tohfeh al-Momenin. Teb e Akbari, MakhzanAl’Advieh and Eksir A’azam, Mokhtasar tazkerate emam alsovidi Fitteb. This work has been done in eight steps (finding the keywords, searching in the references, providing the single list, sorting out and deriving single things in compounds, concluding, scoring and categorizing).
Eighty one materia medicas have been found that 6 of them (Castoreum, Donkeys hoof, the Stone of "Magnet", Crocus sativus, Opopanax chironium, Ferula gummosa,) obtained the highest scores. Fifty-one materia medicas in dystocia treatment, 27 in delivery, 1 in reducing the pain of child birth and 1 in expedite of delivery had been proposed.
Discussin and Although it is not concluded that these materia medicas are the best choices, it can mean that they have been used more commonly in the centuries of 10 to 20 AD in TPM for facilitating labor. This result can be used as choices for clinical researches.