The evaluation of herbal medicine efficacy on cutaneous Leishmaniasis

Leishmaniasis including Cutaneous, mocucutaneous and Visceral forms of clinical syndromes is one of the important health care problem in the world specially in developing countries. Because of long time duration of treatment, being expensive, many associated side effects and eventually resisted cases to conventional therapy, enormous efforts have been performed to replace herbal and new therapeutic strategies as alternative choices. This review argue about reported studies have conducted by many researchers around the world since 1990 that the subject of all of them were about herbal medicine in treatment of leishmaniasis with emphasis on cutaneous leishmaniasis