Medicinal Uses of Natural Dye-Yielding Plants in Turkey

Abstract

PPlants have been grown for natural dyes to produce a wide range of colors.. N Natural dyes become increasingly important these days as synthetic dyes cause serious damage to the environment and have to be replaced. The published records show that Turkey has about 10,000 taxa of higher plants, 145 of which come from 92 genera and 51 families and can be used as dyeing sources of 17 colors. The most common families used for dyeing are Asteraceae, Rosaceae, Lamiaceae, Polygonaceae and Euphorbiaceae, and the dominating genera are Rumex, Anthemis, Euphorbia, and Salvia. Dye plants are of great medicinal value as well and can be used for producing antihelmintic, antiseptic, appetizer, carminative, diuretic, exudative, laxative, sedative and stomachic preparations.

An ethnobotanical study in Midyat (Turkey), a city on the silk road where cultures meet

“…A-155 Boraginaceae Mısmısılhacel (A) basımbar ılğalem (K) Flower Latex of flower Food 0.03 Not reported Paliurus spina-christi Mill. A-285 Rhamnaceae Mağaylun (K) Leaf, flower Wood Agricultural tool, headache cure 0.04 Diabetes, nephroplegia, kidney stone, diuretic, fuel [ 9 , 50 ] Papaver rhoeas L. A-112 Papaveraceae Ceybuhaten (A), şişık (K) Aerial part Boiled, fried eaten Food, fodder 0.13 Sedative, soporific, coughing, antihemorrhagic [ 66 , 74 , 89 , 95 ] Parietaria judaica L. A-170 Urticaceae Rihen (A-K) Aerial part Hung in houses Fragrance Hemorrhoids, wound [ 96 , 97 ] Paronychia kurdica Boiss A-159 Caryophyllaceae Haşişılselulet (A) Aerial part Infusion Wound and gall bladder treatment 0.04 Antiviral, wound [ 15 , 98 ] Peganum harmala L. A-293 Nitrariaceae Harmal (A-K) Flower, seed Dried seeds hung on the wall Amulets and ornaments 0.08 Hemorrhoids, prostatitis, birth, stomachache, snake replant, cardiac pain, muscle spasm, food poisoning, rabies, mental-nervous, digestive, respiratory, skin healing, wound, sedative, palpitation, anti-inflammatory [ 15 , 28 – 32 , 35 , 44 , 99 ] Petroselinum crispum (Mill.) Fuss A-87 Apiaceae Maydanoz (T) Leaf …”

“…striata (M.Bieb.) Ponert A-149 Leguminosae Çelepen, çırpenılfara (A), kelle (K) Fruit Fresh Fodder, food 0.15 Not reported Vitex agnus-castus L. A-166 Lamiaceae Şırte (A) Aerial part Cut and combined Broom 0.05 Not reported Vitis vinifera L. A-210 Vitaceae Tri (K), ğınıb (A) Fruit, aerial part Woods for fuel, boiled in molasses Sugar syrup, grape molasses, wine, fuel 0.09 Sarma, cough, blood forming [ 18 , 100 ] Xanthium spinosum L. A-263 Compositae Kişar (A) Aerial part Decoction Diuretic 0.02 Kidney pain, gastrointestinal disease, fodder, diaphoretic, sedative, exudative [ 9 , 15 , 95 ] Xeranthemum annum L. A-1 Compositae Sirtık (K), Maknese zarke (A) Aerial part Cut and combined Broom 0.09 Toy, broom [ 15 , 75 ] a Endemic, A Arabic, K Kurdish, S Syriac, T Turkish, UV Use value …”

Malva: Food, Medicine and Chemistry

“…102 The colored compounds of these plants, especially flavonoids/anthocyanins are the major source for these colors.…”

Anticancer Uses of Medicinal Plants in Turkish Traditional Medicine

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