Authors
MR González-Tejero, Manuel Casares-Porcel, CP Sánchez-Rojas, JM Ramiro-Gutiérrez, J Molero-Mesa, A Pieroni, ME Giusti, E Censorii, C De Pasquale, A Della, D Paraskeva-Hadijchambi, A Hadjichambis, Z Houmani, M El-Demerdash, M El-Zayat, M Hmamouchi, S ElJohrig
Publication date
2008/3/5
Journal
Journal of ethnopharmacology
Volume
116
Issue
2
Pages
341-357
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
AIM OF STUDY
Within the scope of the European project RUBIA (ICA3-2002-10023), research has been performed on the traditional use and handling of plant species in several Mediterranean countries, Albania, Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Italy, Morocco, and Spain. This paper synthesises the chief results related to the medicinal utilization of those plants.
MATERIAL AND METHODS
The information has been gathered by means of semi-structured interviews (1256) and techniques of participant observation with 803 informants. In each of the participating countries the study areas were selected by means of uniform criteria defined at the beginning of the study.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS
A total of 985 species have been catalogued, of which 406 have medicinal use. This work constitutes the first comparative study performed with ethnobotanical data gathered by a coordinated methodology in the Mediterranean …
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