Beyond food and medicine, but necessary for life, too: other folk plant uses in several territories of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands

Gras, Airy; Garnatje, Teresa; Bonet, M. Àngels Massip i; Carrió, Esperança; Mayans, Marina; Rigat, Montserrat; Vallès, Joan

doi:10.1186/s13002-016-0097-8

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“…On the one hand, the doctoral thesis of Parada (2008) on traditional knowledge of plants in the Alt Empordà and on the other hand, the ethnobotanical study conducted in Ripollès (Rigat et al, in press). In both cases, a long series of publications has derived from these studies (Gras et al, 2016;Parada et al, 2009Parada et al, , 2012Rigat et al, 2015Rigat et al, , 2016 and references therein).…”

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Folk medicinal plant mixtures: Establishing a protocol for further studies

Gras

Parada

Rigat

et al. 2018

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

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Folk medicinal plant mixtures: Establishing a protocol for further studies

Gras

Parada

Rigat

et al. 2018

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

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“…Nevertheless, although most of them have almost disappeared and others remain in a residual condition, specific research to analyse this kind of uses is still important. Not least, they are highly considered by their practitioners and have a cultural relevance and may even imply some economic revenues to local people [72] or generate new market opportunities in a world where people are increasingly concerned about the environment and try to reduce plastics and other waste.…”

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Filling the gaps: ethnobotanical study of the Garrigues district, an arid zone in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula)

Gras

Vallès

Garnatje

2020

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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Background: This study has focused on the Garrigues district, one of the most arid regions in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula), which, in general terms, has remained unexplored from the ethnobotanical point of view. This area, of 22,243 inhabitants, comprises 33 municipalities distributed across 1123.12 km 2. The natural vegetation is dominated by holm oak forests and maquis called 'garriga', the latter giving its name to the district. During the last few decades, this landscape has been transformed by agricultural activities, nowadays in recession. The main aim of this work was to collect and analyse the ethnoflora of this area in order to fill a gap in the ethnobotanical knowledge in Catalonia. Methods: The followed methodology was based on semi-structured interviews. The obtained data have been qualitatively and quantitatively analysed and compared with other available ones. Results: Data were gathered from 68 interviews involving 101 informants, whose ages range from 24 to 94, the mean being 73.07. The number of taxa reported in this study was 420, belonging to 99 botanical families. The interviewed informants referred 4715 use reports (UR) of 346 useful taxa, 1741 (36.93) of them corresponding to medicinal uses, 1705 (36.16%) to food uses, and 1269 (26.91%) to other uses. This study has inventoried, apart from individual plant uses, 260 plant mixtures, of which 98 are medicinal and 162 food. In the present study, 849 vernacular names with 116 phonetic variants have been collected, as well, for 410 taxa. The informant consensus factor (F IC) obtained for our interviewees is 0.93, and the ethnobotanicity index is 23.47% for the studied area. Apart from plants belonging to the typical Catalan, Iberian or European ethnofloras, the present work contributes information on some plants from semiarid or arid regions, such as Artemisia herba-alba and Plantago albicans, much rarer in the ethnobotany of the quoted areas. Conclusions: The results of this study reveal the persistence of ethnobotanical knowledge in the prospected area and the importance of filling the existing gaps in the ethnofloristic sampling of the Catalan territories. The almost complete dataset, now including some arid territories, will allow us to carry out a global analysis and to provide an accurate overview.

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“…The vegetables have multiple purposes. There are cases where the same species is used in human food; in the elaboration of home remedies; for building homes, boats, tools and other utensils [16].…”

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Ethnobotanical knowledge on non-conventional food and medicinal plants in Rio Cajari Extractivist Reserve, Amazon, Brazil

Filho

Ribeiro

Moraes

et al. 2020

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Background: Information on the knowledge, management and ways of using food and medicinal plants by traditional populations, family farmers and Brazilian native population in the Amazon is essential to guarantee the sovereignty of these groups. The objective of this study was to evaluate the diversity, knowledge and ways of using non-conventional food and medicinal plants in traditional communities in a protected area in the Brazilian Amazon. Methods: This study was conducted using semi-structured interviews applied to local respondents. Fifty-six residents were interviewed in 26 communities. The Indices of Use Value (UVI) and relative frequency of species citation (Fr) were evaluated; also, their diversity and equitability using the Shannon- Wiener (H’) Pielou (J’) indices, respectively. The species were listed according to their family, scientific name, popular names, categories of use, propagation environment, growth habit, medicinal indications, domestication status, production cycle, and herbarium registration. Results: A total of 269 species of both non-conventional food and medicinal plants were identified, distributed in 84 botanical families, 198 genera, in addition to 13 unidentified species. The Arecaceae and Lamiaceae families had the highest species richness (11 and 7, respectively). Eryngium foetidum L. (Apiaceae) and Ipomoea batatas L. (Convolvulaceae) presented the highest relative citation frequencies (19.7 and 19.3, respectively) and the highest index of use value of the species (0.94 and 0.92, respectively). The Shannon-Wiener (H’) and Pielou (J’) diversity indices were considered high (5.02 and 0.9, respectively). Conclusions: It was observed that the studied species are consumed daily by the population of this protected area. In the environment in which these families are found, of geographical isolation and distance from urban centers, these species become the only food and medicinal resources, therefore, being fundamental to the sovereignty of these families.

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Beyond food and medicine, but necessary for life, too: other folk plant uses in several territories of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands

Cited by 22 publications

References 29 publications

Folk medicinal plant mixtures: Establishing a protocol for further studies

Folk medicinal plant mixtures: Establishing a protocol for further studies

Filling the gaps: ethnobotanical study of the Garrigues district, an arid zone in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula)

Ethnobotanical knowledge on non-conventional food and medicinal plants in Rio Cajari Extractivist Reserve, Amazon, Brazil

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