This study is aimed at reporting some of the plants traditionally used in the treatment of diseases by the local people living in the centre of Torul district and its surrounding villages. A face-to-face two-part questionnaire survey was conducted with 82 local people. Identification of 29 taxa belonging to 18 families has been confirmed and their medicinal uses have been recorded. In addition, the usage patterns of plant parts andpurposes are recognized. Plants are mostly used in the treatment of cold and flu, stomach disorders, gynecological, cardiovascular, and respiratory diseases. The highest use value (UV) was recorded for Rosa canina (0.54) and Mentha longifolia subsp. longifolia (0.46) and the highest Informants Consensus Factor (FIC) was cited for cold and flu (0.83) followed by stomach disorders (0.75). New information for folklore medicines have been collected from the study area.

Aim of study: With this study, it was aimed to determine some wild plants in the traditional uses in daily lives by local people for healing, treatment, food, spices, equipment, etc. purposes. Area of study: The study area was Kale and Acıpayam provinces in Denizli between April and October 2016. Material and Methods: Plant materials were provided from villagers and county of Kale and Acıpayam districts. In the identification of plants, "Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands" and "List of Turkish Plants" were used. To determine this, totally 60 people were interviewed face to face. The Informants' Consensus Factor (FIC) and Use Value (UV) formulas were used to analyze the data. Main results: As a result of the surveys conducted with 60 people, 48 plant taxa belonging to 29 families have been identified. It has been determined that the plants with traditional use in the region are mostly used for the treatment of stomach disorders, respiratory diseases and pain relief. The most used parts of the plants have been leaves. The highest UV is Olea europaea L. var. sylvestris L. (0.65), and the lowest UV is Pulicaria dysenterica (L.) Bernh.. (0.05). The highest FIC value (0.86) is cold and flu. Research highlights: Although Viscum album subsp. austriacum (Wiesb.) Vollman has been found to be used for different diseases in the literature, its use as a vasodilator drug was first determined by this study.

Social science research has highlighted “honor” as a central value driving social behavior in Mediterranean societies, which requires individuals to develop and protect a sense of their personal self-worth and their social reputation, through assertiveness, competitiveness, and retaliation in the face of threats. We predicted that members of Mediterranean societies may exhibit a distinctive combination of independent and interdependent social orientation, self-construal, and cognitive style, compared to more commonly studied East Asian and Anglo-Western cultural groups. We compared participants from eight Mediterranean societies (Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus [Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot communities], Lebanon, Egypt) to participants from East Asian (Korea, Japan) and Anglo-Western (the United Kingdom, the United States) societies, using six implicit social orientation indicators, an eight-dimensional self-construal scale, and four cognitive style indicators. Compared with both East Asian and Anglo-Western samples, samples from Mediterranean societies distinctively emphasized several forms of independence (relative intensity of disengaging [vs. engaging] emotions, happiness based on disengaging [vs. engaging] emotions, dispositional [vs. situational] attribution style, self-construal as different from others, self-directed, self-reliant, self-expressive, and consistent) and interdependence (closeness to in-group [vs. out-group] members, self-construal as connected and committed to close others). Our findings extend previous insights into patterns of cultural orientation beyond commonly examined East–West comparisons to an understudied world region.

This study was conducted with nine herb firms and 99 customers shopping at those herb stores. A questionnaire consisting of two separate sections was given to the herbalists and their customers, and faceto-face interviews were conducted. The study revealed that the top three most frequently purchased and sold herbs were Mentha x piperita, Thymbra spicata, and Tilia tomentosa. Thus, the first ranking of the causes for buying and selling these herbs are digestive system disorders, respiratory system disorders, nervous system disorders, cardiovascular disorders, and dermatological disorders.

Artvin, which is famous for greenery land, has a very rich flora in terms of plant diversity and richness. It has Blacksea climate and place in place has the Mediterranean climate (especially near Coruh River). Soğanlı village is located in the province of Artvin-Ardanuç. This village distance from the city center is 35 km and it has 850 m altitude. In this study, The floristic structure of the Artvin-Soğanlı Village is researched. And also the medicinal and aromatical plant taxa and their traditional usage of this region were investigated. Plants have been used for different purposes such as food, medicine, pesticide etc. for a long time. Local floristic investigation and individuals knowladge about the traditional usage of plant taxa are vital important issue because if these knowladge would not be transferred generation to generation, local traditional usage of plant taxa will be disappered. As a result of the study 189 naturally plant taxa were identified and families, scientific names, usage parts, traditional usage of these plant taxa, which had have ethnobotanical importance, were indicated.