Nutritional ethnobotany in Europe: From emergency foods to healthy folk cuisines and contemporary foraging trends

Ł Łuczaj, A Pieroni - Mediterranean wild edible plants: ethnobotany and …, 2016 - Springer
In this chapter we analyze the trends of wild food plant consumption in Europe in the last two
centuries, focusing on emergency foods in time of crisis, food traditions and neglected wild …

Gaining momentum: Popularization of Epilobium angustifolium as food and recreational tea on the Eastern edge of Europe

R Kalle, O Belichenko, N Kuznetsova, V Kolosova… - Appetite, 2020 - Elsevier
The local use of wild food plants represents a reservoir for the biocultural diversity of human
diet and is therefore being extensively studied; yet the effects of the introduction of novel …

Change in medical plant use in Estonian ethnomedicine: a historical comparison between 1888 and 1994

R Sõukand, R Kalle - Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2011 - Elsevier
Aim of the study The aim of this paper is to compare the changes in the utilization of species
from various hemeroby categories (indicating the degree of sensitivity of the plant to human …

Where does the border lie: locally grown plants used for making tea for recreation and/or healing, 1970s–1990s Estonia

R Sõukand, R Kalle - Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2013 - Elsevier
Ethnopharmacological relevance Traditional use of local wild and cultivated plants for
making recreational tea in Estonia often borders with the medicinal use of the same plants …

[HTML][HTML] Complementary treatment of the common cold and flu with medicinal plants–results from two samples of pharmacy customers in Estonia

A Raal, D Volmer, R Soukand, S Hratkevitš, R Kalle - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The aim of the current survey was to investigate the complementary self-treatment of the
common cold and flu with medicinal plants among pharmacy customers in Estonia. A …

Wild plants eaten in childhood: a retrospective of Estonia in the 1970s–1990s

R Kalle, R Sõukand - Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2013 - academic.oup.com
In this ethnobotanical study, the authors provide the first quantitative analysis of the use of
wild edible plants in Estonia, describing the domains and assessing the food importance of …

Herbal landscape: the perception of landscape as a source of medicinal plants

R Sõukand, R Kalle - Trames, 2010 - ceeol.com
This contribution investigates the idea of herbal landscape, associated with a personal
perception of landscape as a source of materia medica. The herbal landscape can be …

A relic of medieval folklore: Corpus Christi Octave herbal wreaths in Poland and their relationship with the local pharmacopoeia

ŁJ Łuczaj - Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2012 - Elsevier
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Herbal wreaths are blessed all over Poland on
the eighth day of the Corpus Christi Octave (usually in June). They used to contain many …

[图书][B] Changes in the use of wild food plants in Estonia: 18th-21st century

R Sõukand, R Kalle - 2016 - Springer
In many parts of the world, gathering of wild food plants is still relevant for many agricultural
and hunter-gatherer societies (Turner et al. 2011). However, relatively high living standard in …

Perceiving the biodiversity of food at chest-height: Use of the fleshy fruits of wild trees and shrubs in Saaremaa, Estonia

R Sõukand, R Kalle - Human Ecology, 2016 - Springer
Details on the management, harvest, and consumption of wild plants constitute an important
part of local ethno-ecological knowledge. The food culture of any particular nation depends …