Ethnophytotherapeutical research in the high Molise region (Central-Southern Italy)

Traditional uses of medicinal plants in Valvestino (Italy)

“…In Italy, ethnobotanical investigations have been carried out especially in Central-Southern Italy (Pieroni et al, 2002;Natale and Pollio, 2007;Guarrera et al, 2008), Sardinia and Sicily (Loi et al, 2005;Lentini and Venza, 2007). On the contrary, there are not many studies reporting popular uses in Northern Italy (Ghirardini et al, 2007), even if in numerous alpine and pre-alpine valleys the folk traditions are maintained due to the historical isolation of the local population.…”

Anti-inflammatory and antipyretic effects of Sonchus oleraceus in rats

“…Sonchus oleraceus L. (Asteraceae) is edible to humans as a leaf vegetable and is frequently consumed in Mediterranean countries (Guil-Guerrero et al, 1998;Guarrera, 2003;Guarrera et al, 2006Guarrera et al, , 2008Lentini and Venza, 2007), Australia (Liu et al, 2007) and New Zealand (Cambie and Ferguson, 2003). South of Minas Gerais in Brazil (Southeast of Brazil), Sonchus oleraceus, known as "serralha", is very important in the diet of rural people, especially seasonally, and provides income to the harvester and relatively inexpensive vegetables to the community.…”

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

“…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,…”