An ethno-pharmacobotanical survey in the Sarrabus district (south-east Sardinia)

Palmese, M.Teresa; Manganelli, R. E. Uncini; Tomei, Paolo

doi:10.1016/s0367-326x(01)00288-x

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“…2), which may indicate that a remarkable erosion of TPK has taken place, possibly because most Tabarkins are no longer involved in traditional agricultural activities. (Ballero et al 1994(Ballero et al , 1997a(Ballero et al , b, 2001Ballero and Fresu 1998;Bruni et al 1997;Palmese et al 2001;Loi et al 2004Loi et al , 2005 Fig. 3 Local therapeutical uses of quoted botanicals in Calasetta and Carloforte Ligurian folk name(s) used in the Pegli/Genoa area (Penzig 1924;Gastaldo 1979) Sardinian folk name(s) used in south-western Sardinia (Penzig 1924;Ballero and Fresu 1991;Ballero et al 2001) Allium sativum L. Aggiu Aggiu Allu Only around one fifth of the folk remedies overall were quoted in both centres, demonstrating that TPK about medicinal plants has evolved in quite different ways in the two communities since their forebears' move from the Tunisian coast in the 18th Century.…”

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Medical ethnobotany of the Tabarkins, a Northern Italian (Ligurian) minority in south-western Sardinia

Maxia

Lancioni

Balia

et al. 2007

Genet Resour Crop Evol

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A medico-ethnobotanical study was conducted among the Tabarkin communities living in Calasetta and Carloforte, in south-western Sardinia. These communities represent a Ligurian minority who have resided in Sardinia since their forebears migrated from Tabarka in Tunisia in the second half of the 18th Century, having previously migrated to Tabarka from Genoa in 1544. In this study, we conducted more than 200 interviews and recorded 53 botanical taxa and 72 folk pharmaceutical preparations, which represent the folk medicine of the Tabarkins. The folk phytotherapy of the Tabarkins living in Calasetta and Carloforte is quite restricted compared with other folk phytotherapy recorded in similar recent ethnobotanical studies conducted in Sardinia. This could indicate that there has been a remarkable erosion of Traditional Knowledge (TK) within these two communities. Of particular interest are a few local medical uses we recorded that have never or only very rarely been documented in Italy; namely the use of Dittrichia graveolens (L.) Greuter as an anti-haemorrhoidal, of Centaurea calcitrapa L. as a remedy for malaria, of Glycyrrhiza glabra L. in ophthalmic treatments, and of Urtica dioica L. as an antiviral in cases of German measles. Most of the botanical species quoted in this research are referred to in the two centres using a local Ligurian idiom. Most of the medico-botanical uses we recorded are very similar to those collected in other ethnobotanical surveys carried out in Liguria and south-western Sardinia. Because there was no evidence in this research of any substantial ethnobotanical traces related to the communities' North-African experience, it would appear that the Tabarkins have readily adopted their host culture's use of medicinal plants and have retained their own traditional cognitive concepts and knowledge of the natural plant world through the language only

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confidence: 99%

Medical ethnobotany of the Tabarkins, a Northern Italian (Ligurian) minority in south-western Sardinia

Maxia

Lancioni

Balia

et al. 2007

Genet Resour Crop Evol

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“…The search terms were selected from keyword indices of major ethnomedicinal/botanical journals ( Journal of Ethnopharmacology , Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine ), matched with the Scopus search fields ‘abstract', ‘title', ‘keywords', and ‘text' (ethno* OR tradition* OR folk) AND (veterinar* OR animal OR livestock OR farm* OR sheep OR goat OR cattle OR cow OR pig OR calv* OR poultry) AND (plant OR herb* OR phyto*), and with each country of the EU, including candidate and affiliated countries (Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, United Kingdom). From this first search 8,822 titles were extracted, which were reduced to a final set of 75 publications [20,21,22,23,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,…”

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Treatment of Organic Livestock with Medicinal Plants: A Systematic Review of European Ethnoveterinary Research

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Background: The EC Regulation for Organic Farming states that organic livestock should be treated preferably with phytotherapeutic products. In spite of the high importance of organic livestock in Europe, primarily ruminants, today almost no phytotherapeutic product is registered for livestock. Also, information regarding veterinary phytotherapy is rare. The aim of this paper is to find approaches to cope with health problems of organic ruminants in Europe on the basis of findings from the European ethnoveterinary medicine (EuEVM). Methods: A systematic review of ethno-biomedicinal papers was conducted with the aid of the Scopus database, and 75 papers, from European countries were analyzed regarding ethnoveterinary information. Results: A total of 590 plant species referring to 102 different plant families are reported to be used for animal treatment, with Asteraceae, Fabaceae and Lamiaceae being the most important families. The traditional use of some plant species (e.g. mallow, chamomile, wormwood) corresponds with findings from recent scientific literature. The large number of less studied plant species, such as white lupin as an antiparasitic herb, and Helleborus spp. as potential immunostimulatory agent, opens an interesting field for future research. Conclusions: In general, EuEVM provides interesting treatment approaches for gastrointestinal and dermatological disorders as well as parasitosis. Findings regarding disorders of female genital or respiratory tract are less consistent. Nevertheless, EuEVM offers a solid basis for stimulating research in veterinary phytotherapy in Europe with a perspective to solve animal health problems in organic or even nonorganic ruminant production.

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“…1A: Campidano; Cagliari (Bruni et al, 1997), 1B: Urzulei; Ogliastra (Bruni et al, 1997), 2: Sarrabus, Cagliari (Palmese et al, 2001), 3A: Escolca; Cagliari (Loi et al, 2005), 3B: Lotzorai; Ogliastra (Loi et al, 2005), 4: Marganai; Carbonia-Iglesias (Ballero and Fresu, 1991), 5: Monteleone; Sassari , 6: Seui; Ogliastra (Ballero and Fresu, 1993), 7: Fluminimaggiore, Carbonia-Iglesias (Ballero et al, 2001), 8: Villagrande Strisaili, Ogliastra (Loi et al, 2004), 9: Tempio Pausania, Olbia-Tempio (Ballero et al, 1997), 10: Laconi; Oristano (Ballero et al, 1997), 11: Arzana; Nuoro (Ballero et al, 1994), 12: Perdasdefogu; Ogliastra (Ballero et al, 1997), 13: Ussassai; Ogliastra , 14: Carbonia-Iglesias (Atzei et al, 1994), 15: Gallura; Olbia-Tempio (Atzei et al, 1991).…”

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A comparison of medicinal plant use in Sardinia and Sicily—De Materia Medica revisited?

Leonti¹,

Casu²,

Sanna³

et al. 2009

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

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Results: We identified a core group of 170 medicinal species used on either islands, which accumulate 74% of all citations and are best represented in De Materia Medica. The 15 most frequently used species of both islands demonstrate intriguing parallels for indications with Dioscorides' work. Conclusion:The ethnopharmacopoeia of Sicily and Sardinia are shallow stereotypes of the different editions of De Materia Medica and talking of oral tradition in this respect is a contradiction. The medicinal species of Sardinia and Sicily are largely widespread and common species, including many weeds, which are not facing threat of extinction. Therefore, using traditional medicinal practices as an argument for conservation biology or vice versa is not scientifically sound.

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An ethno-pharmacobotanical survey in the Sarrabus district (south-east Sardinia)

Cited by 60 publications

References 9 publications

Medical ethnobotany of the Tabarkins, a Northern Italian (Ligurian) minority in south-western Sardinia

Medical ethnobotany of the Tabarkins, a Northern Italian (Ligurian) minority in south-western Sardinia

Treatment of Organic Livestock with Medicinal Plants: A Systematic Review of European Ethnoveterinary Research

A comparison of medicinal plant use in Sardinia and Sicily—De Materia Medica revisited?

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