The seventh national congress of medicinal plants is held with the support of medicinal plants and traditional medicine technologies development headquarter and by the national network of medicinal plants research and technology.

According to the public relations and information center of the Vice-Presidency for science and technology affairs, Mohammad Hasan Osareh, secretary of medicine plants and traditional medicine technologies development headquarter, explained about the policies of the headquarter on the seventh national congress of medicinal plants.

During the opening ceremony of the event, Herman Stuppner from Austria and Erving Scholes from the University of Berlin presented lectures. There were five sections in the congress, for each of which 140 articles were presented in the form of poster.

Peyman Salehi, scientific secretary of the congress, talked about the seventh round of the event: this round of the event has been significantly welcomed. Given the fact that this round contains retraining score, a larger number of people has been attracted to this field. On the first day of the event, 60 individuals registered in areas of medicine and pharmacy. The seventh round of the national congress of medicinal plants has the license of the citation center of Islamic world science. In this congress, fields of pharmacy (BSc, MSc and PhD), pharmaceutical biotechnology, traditional and clinical pharmacy, pharmaceutical biomaterials, pharmacognosy, nanotechnology of medicinal plants in the area of pharmaceutical nanotechnology, traditional medicine (all at the level of PhD) and toxicology (MSc) with retaining score of 12.

General practitioners (professional doctorate) and general practitioners working in the family doctor plan (professional doctorate) will receive the score of 8.5 from the congress. In addition, fields of gynecology (profession) and midwifery (BSc and MSc) will receive the retraining score of six.

The main topics of the seventh national congress of medicinal plants include industry and economy, pharmacy, medicine and veterinary sciences, agriculture and natural resources and basic sciences. The area of industry and economy included trading of medicinal plants and its products, producing medicinal plant productions, innovation in production of strategic products, quality system and production of high-quality products, transfer of technology and production of medicinal products.

The seventh national congress of medicinal plants was held May 12^th-14^th, 2018 in culture and welfare complex of University of Shiraz with the support of medicinal plants and traditional medicine technologies development headquarter and by the national network of medicinal plants research and technology.