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IMPS April- Issue No. 2 Page: 1 Stamen removal in pomegranate Increasing import and export of medicinal plants Cryogenic grinding Creating industry of Aloe vera proc- essing in Boushehr International university of tradi- tional and Islamic medicine Botanical garden in Abadan Member spotlight: Dr. Mozafarian Medicinal Plant Diversity in Iran 1. Khorasan, Saffron 2. Khuzestan, Satureja khuzestanica 3. Boushehr, Aloe vera 4. Fars, Lawsonia inermis Technology of Stamen Removal in Pomegranate Dr. Asgari director of Research Institute of Plant Protection said this institute is ready to concede the technological knowledge of stamen removal to a suitable company. He added one of the effective ways to reduce the damage of attacking worm is to prevent the spawning Of this pest in the fruit. This apparatus encompasses the new features of low weight, no need of electricity or battery and low price and saving time has great efficiency and this brands is presented as “ Tofa”. Increasing Import and Export of Medicinal Plants The director general of medicinal and ornamental plants in JihadeAgriculture Ministry reported of 20% increase of import and export of medicinal and ornamental plants in the rst 8 month of recent year comparing to the previous. He said 20 million dollars was the amount of export and 4,000,049 were the acreage. The provinces of Kerman, Sistan and Baloochestan, Southern Khorasan and KhorasaneRazavi are the producƟon areas of medicinal plants. Annually 65,876 tons of medicinal plants are producing in Iran. Global exportaƟon is 123 billion dollars, Iran’s contribuƟon is only 15000 tons with 47 million dollars value. Cryogenic Grinding Technology For the first time in Iran Dr. Mahmoudi Najafi and Dr. Bashiri researchers in scientific and Industrial organization in Iran implemented cryogenic grinding technology. Research show that the heat created in the ordinary mills reinforce oxidation reactivity in presence of oxygen. These reactions leads to dissolution of vitamins, enzymes, volatiles and many other active ingredients in plants. Cryogenic grinding is one of the developed technologies in medicinal plants industry. The part of plant which is needed is grind in –196 ° C liquid nitrogen and then a homogenous powder is obtained from that part of plant called totom. In this issue Creating Industry of Aloe vera Processing in Boushehr Deputy of Plants Improvements in Jihade– Agriculture of Boushehr province stated that this area is the pole of cultivation and promotion of Aloe vera in Iran. He said we hope to develop cultivation of this plant with the assistant of private sector investment. M. B. Manochehri concluded that now Aloe vera is culƟvated in 100 hectares in Boushehr and has 2000 tons of leave production. At the moment there are two nurseries for producing Aloe vera shoots In Boushehr and Dashti.

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Page 1: Technology of Stamen Removal in Pomegranate In this issue · • Member spotlight: Dr. Mozafarian Medicinal Plant Diversity in Iran 1. Khorasan, Saffron 2. Khuzestan, Satureja khuzestanica

IMPS April- Issue No. 2 Page: 1

• Stamen removal in pomegranate

• Increasing import and export of

medicinal plants

• Cryogenic grinding

• Creating industry of Aloe vera proc-

essing in Boushehr

• International university of tradi-

tional and Islamic medicine

• Botanical garden in Abadan

• Member spotlight: Dr. Mozafarian

Medicinal Plant Diversity in Iran

                    1.  Khorasan, Saffron 2.  Khuzestan, Satureja khuzestanica 3.  Boushehr, Aloe vera 4.  Fars, Lawsonia inermis 

Technology of Stamen Removal in Pomegranate Dr. Asgari director of Research Institute of Plant Protection said this 

institute  is ready to concede the technologi‐cal  knowledge of  stamen  removal  to  a  suit‐able company. He added one of the effective ways  to  reduce  the    damage  of  attacking worm  is    to  prevent    the  spawning  Of  this pest  in  the  fruit.  This  apparatus    encom‐passes  the  new  features  of  low weight,  no need  of  electricity  or  battery  and  low  price 

and saving time has great efficiency and this brands is presented as “ Tofa”. 

Increasing Import and Export of Medicinal Plants

The  director  general  of  medicinal  and  ornamental  plants  in  Jihad‐e‐Agriculture Ministry  reported of 20% increase of import and export of me‐dicinal and ornamental plants in the first 8 month of recent year comparing to the previous.   He said 20 million dollars was the amount of export and 4,000,049 were the acreage. The provinces of Kerman, Sistan and Balooch‐estan, Southern  Khorasan and  Khorasan‐e‐Razavi are the produc on areas of medicinal plants. Annually 65,876 tons of medicinal plants are producing in Iran. Global exporta on  is 123 billion dollars,   Iran’s contribu on  is only 15000 tons with 47 million dollars value.  

Cryogenic Grinding Technology For  the  first  time  in  Iran  Dr. Mahmoudi Najafi and Dr. Bashiri researchers in scien‐tific  and  Industrial  organization  in  Iran  implemented  cryogenic  grinding  technol‐ogy. Research show that  the heat created in  the  ordinary mills  reinforce  oxidation reactivity  in  presence  of  oxygen.    These reactions    leads  to  dissolution  of    vita‐mins, enzymes,  volatiles and many other 

active  ingredients  in plants. Cryogenic  grinding    is one of  the developed technologies in medicinal plants industry. The part of plant which is needed is grind in –196 ° C liquid nitrogen and then  a homogenous powder is ob‐tained from that part of plant called totom. 

In this issue

Creating Industry of Aloe vera Processing in Boushehr Deputy of  Plants Improvements in Jihad‐e– Agriculture of Boushehr province stated that this area is the pole of cultivation and promotion of Aloe vera in Iran. He said we hope to  develop cultivation of  this plant with the assistant of private sector investment. M. B. Manochehri concluded that now Aloe vera is cul vated in 100 hectares in Boushehr and has 2000 tons of leave produc‐tion. At the moment there are two nurseries for producing Aloe vera shoots In Boushehr and Dashti.  

Page 2: Technology of Stamen Removal in Pomegranate In this issue · • Member spotlight: Dr. Mozafarian Medicinal Plant Diversity in Iran 1. Khorasan, Saffron 2. Khuzestan, Satureja khuzestanica

   International University of Traditional and

Islamic Medicine

MP of Kashan, Aran and Bidghol reported of founding  International  University  of  Traditional  and  Islamic Medicine  in  Kashan.  A.  Geranmayepour  in Medical university of Kashan said this university with support of Health Ministry and Dr. Kheirandish  and with 350 species of medicinal and ornamental plants  is going to  be  established.  He  emphasized  on  fortification,  support and investment in this matter.     

Botanical Garden in Abadan

Deputy of urban services of Abadan pointed  out that botanical garden is a place where native and non na‐tive  plants  in  open  space  and  greenhouse  is  culti‐vated. He added existence of  such places has an im‐portant  role  in  various  research  aspects  as horticul‐ture,  public  education  and  familiarize  people  with importance  of medicinal  plants  and  their  preserva‐on. He concluded that this garden has a total area of 

12 hectares and via using different scientific methods  identifying new species is going to be possible. 

Medicinal Plants Society, Newsletter, Issue No. 2 page: 2

Conferences

The 5th Mistletoe symposium will be held at Nonnweiler– from 10- 12th November 2011 www.mistelsymposium.de

The 13th International symposium on advances in extraction technologies from 27-29th September in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia

Www.ikm.org.my/ExTech

The 1st International Symposium of on Mycotoxins in Nuts and Dried Fruits will be held from 10-12th September 2011 in Is-lamic Azad University of Damghan.

Www.mycotoxinsymp.com

produced  and  it will be economically profitable.  In  Iran we only know Salvia officinalis and Salvia sclarea and use them, also we know medicinal proper es of 55 different species of Salvia. Are they applicable? Or is their medici‐nal effects  less  than known species.  In  traditional medi‐cine  of  Iran  we  never  used  Satureja  khuzestanica  and only  used  S.  hortensis.  This plant  was  first  iden fied  27 years ago by me  in Khuzestan and  later we found  its medici‐nal  properties.  At  the  end asked  how  do  you  identify  a species?  Dr.  Mozafarian  said the responsibility of a botanist is  to  identify new  species  in  the nature.  The perquisite for  this  work  is  full  dominance  on  botanical  science. Plants talk to you  in the nature and transfer their  infor‐mation to us  if you don’t understand then collect  it and check  the  botanical  books  and  find  them,  if  you  didn’t find  any  information  in  the books  then  it  is probably  a new  species  and  needs  careful  inves ga on.  Hitherto  I have introduced 80 species of plant and 2  new genus to the world ;however, a new species was named after me recently as Mozaffariania. 

Iranian Medicinal Plants Society Registra on No: 18963

Editor in Chief: Dr. M. B. Rezaee

PO Box: 14965‐138 Tel: 00982144580212

newsletter.imps@gmail .com website:www.imps.ir Translator: M. Kazemi

Member Spotlight: Dr. Mozafarian

Dr. Mozafarian was  born  in  1953 in  Damavand.  He  was  graduated from  Tehran  university    .  He  has been  a  scien fic member  in  bot‐any  research  division  in  Research Ins tute  of  Forests  and  Range‐

lands for 28 years. Dr. Mozafarian has iden fied 55 thousands of plant  species. He has published dif‐ferent books to introduce various species and their scientific names. Flora of different provinces were published  by  him.  Recently  he  published  a  book called  “  Methods  for  identifying  Umbellferae Plants” In Persian which was written by him in Eng‐lish previously. Dictionary of Botany is published in five  different  languages  of  Persian,  English,  Ger‐man,  French  and  Latin.   He  believes we  have  to work on the na ve plants which no scien fic works has been done. Recently more than 250 number of species have been  identified by him and he plans to work on  the medicinal characteristics of  them. When asked based on your  specialization what  is your economical  suggestion  for medicinal plants? He said: When we work on our native plants accu‐rately then we can sell our knowledge. For exam‐ple in Baloochestan area people use Otostegia per‐sica  for  curing  Malaria.  When  we  work  conse‐quently we see the results and then a medicine  is