“The Roadmap to Victory: Goals, Strategies, and Practical Actions for the Green Revolution of Medicinal Plants”

Considering the unique characteristics of the two fields of medicinal plants and herbal products, as well as traditional medicine, the goals, strategies, and actions of these fields are presented separately and separately as follows:

* Field of medicinal plants and herbal products:

A) Goals:
1- To achieve a 20% share of the country’s pharmaceutical market value through approved products based on herbal medicines and natural products
2- To achieve a 20% share of the country’s veterinary pharmaceutical market value through approved products based on herbal medicines and natural products
3- To increase the export of medicinal plants and herbal medicinal products and herbal products to be among the top 10 countries in the world
4- To achieve a 3% share of the production of medicinal plants and herbal medicinal products in the global arena
5- To achieve a 1% share of global patent registration in the field of medicinal plants and their products
6- To register and cover all exclusive, native or endangered species of medicinal plants in the country in national protection systems
7- To reduce the level of official and unofficial harvesting from natural areas to 10,000 hectares
8- To increase the area under cultivation of medicinal and essential oils with regard to income, foreign exchange and low water consumption
B) Strategies:
1- To review, amend, simplify and update the laws, Relevant regulations and standards in the field of medicinal plants and herbal products
2- Organizing the system of education, research and development of technology and innovation in the field of medicinal plants and herbal products
3- Promoting, informing and building culture in the field of medicinal plants and herbal products
4- Creating coherence and continuous and effective cooperation between institutions, companies and organizations related to the field of medicinal plants, whether public or private
5- Expanding international cooperation in the science and technology of medicinal plants
6- Organizing the processes and structures of monitoring and evaluating all actors and activities in the field of medicinal plants
7- Organizing the production and distribution, market and export of products and services in this field and commercialization and branding of scientific and technological achievements in it
8- Organizing resource management and protection of basic resources with emphasis on developing the level of cultivation, breeding, collection and industrial processing of medicinal plants
9- Protecting the country’s exclusive plant species and preventing the exit of samples or information related to these species from Country
10- Optimal use of Islamic guidelines in the field of botany, nutrition and health and treatment

c) Measures:
1- Preparing regulations, plans and bills in order to amend and simplify laws and submit them to the competent authorities for approval (1)
1, the numbers in parentheses indicate the strategy related to that action
2- Preparing and compiling national standards for medicinal plant products and their export and import and submitting them to the competent authorities for approval (1)
3- Launching a national research institute and an international research and development center in the field of medicinal plants and herbal products (2)
4- Organizing scientific documents and the heritage of Islamic scientists (2)
5- Accelerating, facilitating and making mandatory the steps related to registering and conducting research and clinical trials for herbal medicines (2)
6- Creating and developing specialized trends, courses, disciplines and interdisciplinary fields The field of medicinal plants and herbal products, according to the needs of the country and based on the country’s higher education and research planning (2)
7 – Using the capacity of the national media and supporting information in the general and specialized media and holding national and international exhibitions and festivals in the field of medicinal plants (3)
8 – Using the capacity of education and training to promote the importance of medicinal plants at the primary to secondary education levels (3)
9 – Organizing and creating legal organizations to create effective and rational communication between producers and consumers or pharmaceutical companies, as well as developing exports in the field of medicinal plants and herbal products (4)
10 – Attracting, transferring and localizing advanced science and technology from other countries in the field of medicinal plants (5)
11 – Creating a national trademark as well as joint trademarks with other countries for exporting products in the field (5)
12 – Monitoring and forecasting the development of the herbal medicine industry (5)
13 – Organizing and developing authorized economic activities in this field based on Valid approvals and prevention of unauthorized activities (6)
14 – Establishing a system for monitoring the market and centers for supplying products and services in the field of medicinal plants, especially traditional perfumery (6)
15 – Supporting the commercialization and industrial production of achievements in the medicinal plants and herbal products sector in accordance with approved indicators (7)
16 – Supporting pilots for commercialization of high-tech products, methods or processes, and effective innovations related to the medicinal plants and herbal medicine industry (7)
17 – Planning for full insurance coverage of registered herbal medicines (7)
18 – Monitoring, identifying, and introducing markets and products of herbal medicines and herbal and natural products at the national and international levels (7)
19 – Supporting the establishment and organization of purchasing centers for the supply and distribution of medicinal plants, herbal medicines, and herbal products, and the medicinal plant exchange (7)
20 – Supporting the establishment of centers for the production of mother medicinal plants, including seeds, seedlings, and seedlings (7)
21 – Supporting the modernization and updating of industries related to the processing of medicinal plants (7)
22 – Establishing an international business study center for packaging and branding in the field of medicinal plants and herbal products and establishing a town for medicinal plant processing industries (7)
23- Supporting the quantitative and qualitative development of mass cultivation and farming of those medicinal plants whose uncontrolled harvesting damages the country’s forests and pastures (8)
24- Supporting the cultivation of medicinal plants from other climates in the country (8)
25- Planning for the development of cultivation and domestication of important species of medicinal plants with economic value (8)
26- Establishing a database of medicinal plants and herbal products in the country (8)
27- Strengthening and developing the gene bank of various species of exclusive or endangered medicinal plants (9)
28- Compiling and announcing the list of priority medicinal plants in the country (9)
29- Establishing a research center for medicinal plants and herbal products approved in the Quran and hadiths (10)

Note 1: The supply of human herbal medicines to the market must be approved by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education. Note 2: The supply of veterinary herbal medicines to the market must be approved by the National Veterinary Organization.

* Field of traditional medicine and traditional pharmacy:

A) Goals:
1- To achieve a 10% share of the country’s health market value based on the rules and principles of traditional medicine, including compliance with the six principles of health
2- To achieve a 4% share of the country’s treatment market value
3- To achieve a 2% share of the country’s drug market value through approved products based on traditional medicine
4- Appropriate insurance coverage in order to achieve a 30% out-of-pocket payment rate in the field of traditional medicine
5- To improve the health level of the community based on the development of traditional medicine and the use of the six principles of health and a holistic approach
6- To achieve the first rank in the region in meeting health and medical needs in the field of traditional medicine and exporting technical knowledge services and herbal and natural products at the rate of 20% of exports.
7- Annual increase in patent registration in this field in the field of traditional medicine products

B) Strategies:

1- Review, amend, simplify and update the relevant laws, regulations and standards in this field

2- Organize and determine the scope of traditional medicine activities in the health system and the medical education and research system of the country

3- Culture and reform the society’s attitude towards the status of traditional medicine and the establishment and promotion of a healthy lifestyle and nutrition based on the teachings of this medicine

4- Reform the processes and structures of monitoring and evaluating the field of traditional medicine

5- Organize and promote the specialized scientific capacity, professional skills and spiritual status of specialized human resources, as well as textbooks and reference resources in the field of traditional medicine and traditional pharmacy

6- Expand scientific and technological cooperation at the international level in the field of traditional medicine

7- Expand the facilitation and organization of service provision in the field of traditional medicine

8- Effective support and backing for priority basic, developmental and applied research in the field of traditional medicine and traditional pharmacy

9- Develop traditional pharmacy to meet domestic needs and meet export needs

10- Establish and organize effective institutions in the field of traditional medicine and Traditional pharmacy and support for reputable non-governmental institutions in this field

11- Deepening and expanding the epistemological and philosophical foundations of traditional medicine and creating practical opportunities for active interaction and synergy between traditional medicine and modern medicine

c) Measures:

1- Continuous coordination and communication with all legislative and executive centers in order to propose the rules and regulations required for this sector (1)

2- Reviewing and determining the rules and regulations for accreditation to facilitate the establishment of educational, research and service centers for traditional medicine (1)

3- Supporting the establishment of standard and reputable institutions for traditional medicine and traditional pharmacy services (1)

4- Developing a regulation for providing health services by Iranian traditional medicine practitioners, especially physicians and pharmacists specializing in this field (1)

5- Supporting the use of traditional medicine services at all levels of the referral system and family physician (2)

6- Providing a package of Iranian traditional medicine services by all family medicine teams as the main and most general pillar of the country’s health system to the entire community (2)

7- Preparing and compiling appropriate educational content regarding the basics of values, culture, customs and medical heritage Traditional medicine and supporting its inclusion in education textbooks (3)
8- Designing, compiling and implementing a program to empower prominent social groups in the fields of traditional medicine and traditional pharmacy in order to play a role in public awareness and promotion (3)
9- Promoting Islamic teachings, the Quran and the Holy Quran in the field of health and nutrition (3)
10- Promoting a healthy lifestyle based on Islamic teachings in accordance with traditional medicine in public education programs for the people using the capacities of the national media, the press, mosques and other religious places, health centers and other public places, and other methods of public information and awareness (3)
11- Promoting compliance with the six principles of health of the traditional medicine school among members of society (3)
12- Designing and promoting a maternal and child health model based on Islamic teachings and teachings in accordance with traditional medicine (3)
13- Establishing a database of accessible traditional medicines and creating a system for registering traditional and natural medicines and providing drug information (3)
14- Developing regulations for monitoring activities in the field of traditional medicine in cooperation with relevant governmental and non-governmental institutions (4)
15- Design and establish appropriate models for improving the quality of performance evaluation, standardization of all processes and services (4)
16- Needs assessment and determination of the human resource capacity required for admission through approved programs (5)
17- Training of specialized human resources by creating, focusing on specialized courses and interdisciplinary courses in various fields of traditional medicine based on the need and considering the country’s higher education planning (5)
18- Identifying and providing special support to outstanding university centers in the field of traditional medicine and traditional pharmacy and granting national missions to these centers in order to meet the needs of the country’s health system (5)
19- Using Iranian-Islamic resources of traditional medicine and promoting them (5)
20- Identifying, preserving and applying the spiritual heritage and authoritative implicit and explicit scientific resources of Iranian-Islamic traditional medicine, especially through interdepartmental coordination with the Cultural Heritage Organization (5)
21- Compilation of reference books of specialized textbooks and practical instructions for traditional medicine (5)
22- Extracting traditional treatment methods in the two fields of medicine and veterinary medicine and collecting oral resources of folk medicine based on the medical collections of cultures The diverse Iranian plateau (5)
23 – Developing and strengthening short-term training courses and retraining in traditional medicine (5) The country’s medical education system (5)
24 – Explaining the promotion and institutionalization of teachings based on traditional Iranian Islamic medicine in
25 – Creating a suitable environment for benefiting from the resources of traditional healers and transferring them to future generations (5)
26 – Approving and publishing the “Charter of Theoretical Foundations of Traditional Iranian Islamic Medicine” worldwide in order to include the name of traditional Iranian Islamic medicine as a recognized school on a par with other reputable schools of medicine in major international texts (6)
27 – Establishing sustainable relations and international and practical cooperation with reputable centers of traditional medicine, the world, especially the Islamic world (6)
28 – Comparative studies between the traditional Iranian Islamic medicine system with traditional medicine of other nations and classical medicine (6)
29 – Planning for effective use of the capacities, experiences, teachings, and resources of traditional medicine

of other nations and also from the capacities of classical medicine (6)
30- Expanding insurance coverage of traditional medicine services with an emphasis on the principle of social justice (7)
31- Tariffing services and making the rates of government and private services proportional to other health services and supporting insurance for these services (7)
32- Prioritizing the purchase of traditional medicine products and products by government departments and insurance services for these products (7)
33- Supporting private sector investment in the production, commercialization and export of traditional medicine products and products (7)
34- Encouraging insurance companies to invest in traditional medicine as preventive medicine in order to reduce treatment costs (7)
35- Producing health ID cards within the framework of the regulations of the Ministry of Health along with temperaments for individuals in the community (8)
36- Establishing and strengthening growth centers for technology units in the field of traditional medicine and traditional pharmacy (at least 20 centers per year, vision) (8)
37- Launching at least 5 scientific and research journals in Persian and international languages ​​in the field of scientific and research achievements of traditional medicine and its application in modern and classical medicine (8)
38- Allocating at least 5% of research funds of medical universities to traditional medicine research and its application in classical and modern medicine (8)
39- Establishing a traditional medicine research network and developing its activities (8)
40- Designing and providing short-term continuous in-service training to pharmacists in the traditional medicine service delivery system (9)
41- Designing support and providing resources for the establishment and development of technological infrastructure and the production and export of traditional pharmaceuticals, health products, cosmetics, supplements and food products based on traditional medicine knowledge (9)
42- Establishing a museum to revive and preserve the works and heritage of traditional medicine (10)
43- Supporting the establishment, expansion and empowerment of reputable non-governmental centers and institutions related to patients’ rights and enhancing their participation in decision-making (10)
44- Developing, approving and implementing a policy document for integrating traditional medicine and traditional pharmacy into the health service delivery system (11).
45- Establishing and supporting the Chair of Traditional Iranian-Islamic Medicine Theory (11)
46- Creating interdisciplinary trends in the field of traditional medicine and traditional pharmacy and humanities, Islamic sciences, social sciences (11)
47- Establishing a research center for epistemological studies based on the theoretical and philosophical foundations of traditional Iranian-Islamic medicine (11)