Local ecological knowledge and folk medicine in historical Estonia, Livonia, Courland and Galicia in Northeastern Europe, 1805-1905.
Open Res Eur
; 2: 30, 2022.
Article
in En
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| ID: mdl-37645296
ABSTRACT
Background:
Historical ethnobotanical data can provide valuable information about past human-nature relationships as well as serve as a basis for diachronic analysis. This data note aims to present a dataset which documented medicinal plant uses, mentioned in a selection of German-language sources from the 19 th century covering the historical regions of Estonia, Livonia, Courland, and Galicia.Methods:
Data was mainly entered by systematic manual search in various ethnobotanical historical German-language works focused on the medicinal use of plants. Data about plant and non-plant constituents, their usage, the mode of administration, used plant parts, and their German and local names was extracted and collected into a database in the form of Use Reports.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Language:
En
Journal:
Open Res Eur
Year:
2022
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Italia