Comparative analysis of medicinal plants used in traditional medicine in Italy and Tunisia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Italy and Tunisia (Africa for the Romans), facing each other on the opposite sides of the Mediterranean Sea, have been historically linked since the ancient times. Over the centuries both countries were mutually dominated so the vestiges and traces of a mutual influence are still present. The aim of the present study is to conduct a comparative analysis of the medicinal species present in the respective Floras in order to explore potential analogies and differences in popular phytotherapy that have come out from those reciprocal exchanges having taken place over the centuries

Methods

The comparative analysis based on the respective floras of both countries takes into consideration the bulk of medicinal species mutually present in Italy and Tunisia, but it focuses

SUBMITTER: Leporatti ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2773757 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature