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Introduction: Leucorrhea that was mentioned as Sayalan-e Rahem in Iranian traditional medicine is of the most common complains of women referring to gynecologic clinics. In Persian medicine, different treatment steps are proposed for these patients that nutritional recommendation is the first step in this regard. This study was performed with aim to summarize and present the nutritional guidelines in Sayalan-e Rahem from various sources so that it can be used to reduce recurrence and the incidence of drug complications. Methods: In this review study, during several meetings of authors and reviewing the most popular sources of traditional Iranian medicine, the topics related to nutritional guidelines in uterine discharge were collected and classified. Also, nutritional recommendations for uterine discharges in different conventional medicine books and the studies in different journals were extracted and then compared. Results: Based on Iranian Physician's point of view, some types of food have been generally recommended for patients with Sayalan-e Rahem that among them, we can mention astringent (Barberry, Lentils, Sumac and Mung bean( and tonic foods (apple and quince(. Sourness, garlic, onion, turnip, cow meat and flatulent foods have been generally avoided in patients with Sayalan-e Rahem. If Sayalan-e Rahem be due to imbalance of four different humors in the body, appropriate diet will be advised for each distemperament. Conclusion: Considering lack of enough nutritional recommendation in conventional medicine for patients with leucorrhea, so attention to the mentioned above and performing scientifically evaluations on the effect of recommended food in Sayalan-e Rahem can be effective on enhancing health and life quality of women.

Primary dysmenorrhea (PD) is defined as painful menstrual in the absence of any pelvic pathology. Nowadays, the first line treatment is the use of NSAIDs that unfortunately has contraindication and side effects. Persian Medicine has noted menstrual pain with the defined treatments by use of herbs and herbal formulations. The aim of this study is to introduce the medicinal plants used to treat menstrual and uterine pains (M & UP) in Persian Medicine for evaluating in field of PD. For this purpose, first the medicinal plants used to treat M & UP were listed using prominent Persian Medicine references. In the next step, data were collected in relation to treat PD by searching in ‘Google Scholar’, ‘Scopus’, ‘PubMed’ and ‘SID’ databases between 2000 and 2016. Finally, the plants from identified Persian Medicine list, whose effect on PD have been revealed in modern literatures were introduced. According to this review, more than 100 medicinal plants were recommended for the treatment of M & UP in Persian Medicine. They belong to 60 plant families, the most frequent of which are Asteraceae, Apiaceae, Fabaceae, Rosaceae and Lamiaceae, respectively. Also, only about 13% of the aforementioned medicinal plants have been evaluated for the treatment of PD. It seems that many plants have been introduced in Persian Medicine for the treatment of menstrual pain, which have not yet been evaluated for their therapeutic effects and precise mechanisms of action. Thus, the introduced plants could be suitable candidates for future investigations.