An Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Taskopru (Kastamonu-Turkey).

ABSTRACT: This pharmaceutical ethnobotanical research was carried out in Taşköprü District in Kastamonu, in northern Anatolia. It assembles the elaborations of plants used as folk medicines, and the ethnopharmacological data collected in the course of in-person semi-structured interviews with an open-ended questionnaire. The study's aims were two-fold: gathering and identifying plants that the local inhabitants use therapeutically, and recording information related to traditional folk medicine (primarily for humans, and if extant for animals). The plants were gathered during several outings between May 2016 and July 2018. The organization of the data was based on the use-reports (UR) and was done according to the ICPC-2 classification. In addition, cultural importance index (CI) and informant consen

SUBMITTER: Senkardes I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9630845 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature