en Saffron a Prototype Example for Evidence Based Herbal Medicine گياهان دارویی Medicinal Plants مروری Review <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">Evidence-based medicine is now generally perceived to be the dominant operating system in conventional medicine. Evidence-based medicine developed concurrently with the internet and the world wide web. This is no coincidence since evidence-based medicine suggests a personal responsibility for clinicians to keep abreast of research that would be difficult without the information access that the web provides. Over the last two decades, evidence based herbal medicine has been considered as interesting field. One of prototype example of evidence base medicine is saffron. In this paper, we review saffron from evidence point of view.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Evidence-based medicine is now generally perceived to be the dominant operating system in conventional medicine. Evidence-based medicine developed concurrently with the internet and the world wide web. This is no coincidence since evidence-based medicine suggests a personal responsibility for clinicians to keep abreast of research that would be difficult without the information access that the web provides. Over the last two decades, evidence based herbal medicine has been considered as interesting field. One of prototype example of evidence base medicine is saffron. In this paper, we review saffron from evidence point of view.</div> Alzheimer’s disease, Depression, Evidence-based medicine, Saffron Alzheimer’s disease, Depression, Evidence-based medicine, Saffron 1 7 http://jmp.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-34-3&slc_lang=en&sid=1 R Hajiaghaee R Hajiaghaee 100319475328460036623 100319475328460036623 No Pharmacognosy & Pharmaceutics Department of Medicinal Plants Research Center, Institute of Medicinal Plants, ACECR Pharmacognosy & Pharmaceutics Department of Medicinal Plants Research Center, Institute of Medicinal Plants, ACECR M Heidari M Heidari 100319475328460036624 100319475328460036624 No Iranian Academic Center for Education, Culture & Research (ACECR) Iranian Academic Center for Education, Culture & Research (ACECR) S Akhondzadeh S Akhondzadeh s.akhond@neda.net 100319475328460036625 100319475328460036625 Yes Psychiatric Research Center, Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences Psychiatric Research Center, Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences