Effects of Iraqi Medicinal Plants on the Growth of Trichomonas vaginalis in Vitro: A Narrative Review

Regarding with improving the therapy of Trichomoniasis, natural products could be a provenance of new drugs with low toxicity and high effectiveness. Considering the side effects of metronidazole in the treatment of T. vaginalis infection, and to evaluate substitutional drugs, the effect of different Iraqi plants extracts on T. vaginalis in vitro was reviewed in this study.

A computerized search for published articles was conducted over Iraqi Academic Scientific Journals, PubMed, Google Scholar, Scopus, and EBSCO databases. Exemplary investigation strategies have used for each databases. After incipient search and screening 5 papers were included in the study.

The effect of different Iraqi medicinal plants extracts on T. vaginalis in vitro have reviewed. Just Five articles have included in vitro experiments. Eight types of Iraqi medicinal plants were investigated against T. vaginalis. Reviewed medicinal plants appeared uncommonly effective on T. vaginalis

The present narrative review provides inclusive and useful information about searched medicinal plants with anti-T. vaginalis activity, which would be tested in the future experimental and clinical trials, and medicinal plant natural products combination therapy.