Southwest Asia is climatically and topographically a highly diverse region in the xeric belt of
the Old World. Its diversity of arid habitats and climatic conditions acted as an important area …

Bassia All. is a genus from the Amaranthaceae family, which was created by merging
selected species belonging to the former Bassia and Kochia genera with those classified to …

A medico-ethnobotanical study was conducted among Albanians, Macedonians, and Gorani
in forty-one villages located in the Sharr Mountains in western Macedonia. The survey was …

This paper reports the results of a survey concerning folk uses of medicinal plants in
Valvestino (Brescia, Italy). The features of this area, recognized by European Union as “Site …

Background Ethnobotanical surveys of the Western Balkans are important for the cross-
cultural study of local plant knowledge and also for obtaining baseline data, which is crucial …

Ethnobotanical studies in the Balkans are crucial for fostering sustainable rural development
in the region and also for investigating the dynamics of change of Traditional Ecological …

Turkey has the largest coastal area in the Mediterranean, possesses an extraordinarily rich
flora, and a great traditional knowledge. This diversity of plants naturally affects the …

In recent years, Mediterranean diet has been promoted as a model for healthy eating. One of
the main characteristics of the Mediterranean diet is an abundance of plant food as fruits …

Background In the years 2003–2005 research was carried out concerning ethno-medicine in
the high Molise (central-southern Italy), a region that has been the object of very little …

This study was carried out in order to determine which plants and the ways in which these
plants are used for the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders among the people of some …