The role of medicinal plants in Farrokh-nameh

The classification of sciences in the past was not the same as it is today.Scholar, in the past like Avicenna and , Farabi were Jame al-Uloom(very kowledgable). Therefore encyclopedia books of science became widely popular during this period. in this book knowledge of plants is as important as writing prayers and strange sciences. Farrokh-nameh is one of the books that can -be called an encyclopedia of sciences and this book covers sciences from botany , agriculture to alchemy and writing prayers. Since the subject of this research is medicinal plants, this book deals with medicinal plants and this issue is addressed, which medicinal plants is meant by medicinal plants in the book and what are the properties of these plants that are examined separately from other plants. to be In addition, along with examining the plants, the images of these plants are also analyzed. According to he purpose of the research, which is to explain the medicinal plants in the Farrokh-nameh book, the research information has been collected in a documentary way, and the research method is descriptive-analytical. The findings of the research show that most of the herbs have been used to protect people from natural and supernatural bites in addition totheir therapeutic use

Keywords:

Medicinal plants , Farrokh-nameh , Illustrated books , Safavid period.