Ethnobotanical use of wild and cultivated plants in traditional medicine of Middle Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract

In the years 2006–2009 a research was carried out concerning ethnobotanical use of wild and cultivated plants on the territory of middle Bosnia and Herzegovina (W. Balkan Peninsula; SE Europe), a region characterized by great plant diversity with about 3.572 different species of vascular plants [1]. This area is less frequently studied from the perspective of plant usage in traditional medicine. The purpose of this study was the collection of any information about usage of wild and cultivated plants in human therapy, especially verbally delivered prescriptions. To all used plants corresponding material for investigations and documentation was collected and deposited in the herbarium of the Department of Pharmacognosy, Vienna. For the further analyses and comparisons, it was necessary to insert all collected data in the so called „VOLKSMED“ data base of Austrian prescriptions [2].