Shaima Rabeea Banoon - Department of Biology, College of Science, University of Misan, Maysan, Iraq
Mohammad Narimani-Rad - Department of Biomedical Engineering, Central Tehran branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Alireza Lotfi - Department of Animal Physiology, Islamic Azad University, Iran
Samira Shokri - Department of Pathobiology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Saber Abbaszadeh - Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, School of Medicine, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran
Sedef Özliman - Department of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Atatürk Health Care Vocational School, Afyonkarahisar Health Sciences University, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey

Prostatitis can occur at any age, after its enlargement, it puts pressure on the urinary tracts and causes urinary symptoms.  Factors influencing the prevalence of prostatitis include age, genetic, diet, cancer, hormonal factors, and environmental factors. A microbial infection often causes prostatitis. In this systematic review, we tried to report the most important herbal medicines that have been mentioned for prostate treatment in Iranian ethnobotanical documents.   Some keywords have been used, such as prostate, prostate inflammation, medicinal plants, ethnobotany, identification of medicinal plants. Also some Iranian Databases have been used, such as ISI Web Science, PubMed, Scopus, ISC, SID, and Google Scholar to review articles and resources. Ethnobotanical knowledge has a solution for treating this disease. Based on the results obtained in Iranian ethnobotanical documents, Lamium album L., Origanum vulgare, Silybum marianum (L.) Gaerth., Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers., Polygonum aviculare L., Urtica dioica L., Alhagi persarum Boiss. & Buhse., Eremurus persicus (Jaub. & Spach) Boiss., Gundelia tournefortii, Myrtus communis L., Tribulus Terrestris L., and Physalis divaricata D. Don are the most important herbal medicines used in Iranian ethnobotanical sources for prostate treatment. Aim of this systematic review, was to report the most important medicinal plants for prostatitis treatment mentioned in Iranian ethnobotanical documents.

Genitourinary tract, Prostate, Prostatitis, herbal medicines, Iran