Medicinal and useful plants in the tradition of Rotonda, Pollino National Park, Southern Italy

Sanzo, Paola Di; Martino, Laura De; Mancini, Emilia; Feo, Vincenzo De

doi:10.1186/1746-4269-9-19

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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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confidence: 99%

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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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

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“…These species are not only used for feeding livestock instead these are an important and cheap source of medicine for cattle to treat multiple health issues [120]. The traditional ethno-veterinary system has played a significant role in animal production especially in the rural areas where livestock diseases are locally treated [121,122].…”

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Ethno-veterinary practices of Poaceae taxa in Punjab, Pakistan

Majeed¹,

Bhatti²,

Amjad³

et al. 2020

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Background: Plant species of Poaceae family are not only used as fodder and forage but also contribute substantially in the treatment of various health disorders, particularly in livestock. Consequently, present study was aimed to document the therapeutic uses Poaceae taxa by the inhabitants of the Punjab Province to treat various veterinary health disorders. Methods: Semi structured interviews, group discussion and field walks were conducted to collected data. Furthermore, quantitative indices includingcultural significance index (CSI), relative frequency of citations (RFC), fidelity level (FL), and relative popularity level (RPL) andJaccard Index (JI) were adopted for data analysis. Results: Traditional uses of 149 plants belonging to 60 genera, 16 tribes of 5 sub families of Poaceae were recorded. Whole plant and leaves were the most consistent grazing parts with 40.94 and 29.53% contribution and decoction (35 reports) was the most preferred mode of administration. Majority of the plant species were employed to treat infectious diseases (25.93 %). and digestive disorders (14.10 %). Triticum aestivum depicted highest CSI, RFC and RPL levels at 8.00, 0.96, 1.00, respectively, followed by Oryza sativa and Poa annua . Likewise, T. aestivum and Saccharum spontaneum had 100 % FL and ROP. Jaccard index ranged from 12.25 to 0.37. Twelve plant species namely Chrysopogon zizanioides (anti-inflammatory), Pennisetum lansatum (improve bull fertility), Cymbopogon citratus (glandular secretion), Sorghum saccharatum and Themeda triandra (malaria), Aristida funiculate (anticancer) , Koeleria argentia (skin allergies), Tetrapogon villosus (antibacterial), Cynodon radiates (eyes infection), Sporobolus nervosa (Jaundice), Enneapogon persicus (antifungal), and Panicum repens (dysfunctional cattle organs) were reported for the first time with novelethnoveterinary uses. Conclusion: Inhabitants of the study area had strong association with surrounding plant biodiversity and possess significant knowledge on therapeutic uses of grasses and other members of Poaceae to treat various health disorders in animals. Plant species with maximum cultural and medicinal values could be a potential source of novel drugs to cure health disorders in animals and human as well.

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“…; Di Sanzo et al . ; González et al . ), for treating warts, chilblains, piles and minor pains (Guarrera ; Chauhan, Ruby & Dwivedi ; Akyol & Altan ), and more recent medicinal uses described in VI (F).…”

Section: Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It has indeed been used as a 'butcher's broom' to clean chopping blocks (Pedersen 1994), also to make garden besoms (Bean 1980;Kızılarslan & € Ozhatay 2012) and brooms for removing embers from bread ovens in southern Italy (Salerno, Guarrera & Caneva 2005). Extracts from the rhizome have been used in many dietary supplements (Mari et al 2012;Di Novella et al 2013;Di Sanzo et al 2013;Gonz alez et al 2013), for treating warts, chilblains, piles and minor pains (Guarrera 2005;Chauhan, Ruby & Dwivedi 2012;Akyol & Altan 2013), and more recent medicinal uses described in VI (F). R. aculeatus shoots are eaten boiled or fried in spring in Sicily and Italy (Corsi & Pagni 1979;Paoletti, Dreon & Lorenzoni 1995;Lentini & Venza 2007;Laghetti et al 2011;di Tizio et al 2012).…”

Section: Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biological Flora of the British Isles: Ruscus aculeatus

Thomas

Mukassabi

2014

Journal of Ecology

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Summary1. This account presents information on all aspects of the biology of Ruscus aculeatus L. (Butcher's broom) that are relevant to understanding its ecological characteristics and behaviour. The main topics are presented within the standard framework of the Biological Flora of the British Isles: distribution, habitat, communities, responses to biotic factors, responses to environment, structure and physiology, phenology, floral and seed characters, herbivores and disease, history and conservation. 2. Ruscus aculeatus is a multistemmed monocotyledonous shrub with leaves functionally replaced by cladodes and photosynthetic stems. It is native to southern England primarily in dry shaded woodland and hedgerows (but widely planted elsewhere) often, but not exclusively, on base-rich soil. It is rarely abundant in any habitat, usually forming widely spread discrete clumps. 3. Ruscus aculeatus is remarkably shade tolerant and drought resistant with low water conductance and transpiration, and water storage in the cladodes. Yet unusually for a drought-tolerant stemphotosynthetic plant, it prefers shady environments. 4. The flowers have few if any pollinating mechanisms, low seed production and fruit/seed dispersal are largely ineffective, which may be a relict of its evolution in a tropical Tertiary climate. Population survival primarily depends upon vegetative spread from stout rhizomes, aided by the plant's general unpalatability. 5. Over-collecting for medicinal steroidal saponins has caused some population declines, particularly in eastern Europe, but it is otherwise facing few conservation problems.

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Medicinal and useful plants in the tradition of Rotonda, Pollino National Park, Southern Italy

Cited by 41 publications

References 34 publications

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

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

Ethno-veterinary practices of Poaceae taxa in Punjab, Pakistan

Biological Flora of the British Isles: Ruscus aculeatus

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