Editor-in-Chief
Hatice Kübra Elçioğlu
Vice Editors
Levent Kabasakal
Esra Tatar
Online ISSN
2630-6344
Publisher
Marmara University
Frequency
Bimonthly (Six issues / year)
Abbreviation
J.Res.Pharm.
Former Name
Marmara Pharmaceutical Journal
Marmara Pharmaceutical Journal
2015 , Vol 19 , Issue 3
An Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Plants in Bayramiç (Çanakkale- Turkey)
1Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, Faculty of Pharmacy, Marmara University, İstanbul, Turkey
DOI :
10.12991/mpj.201519392830
A comprehensive ethnobotanical study has been conducted in
Bayramic in the western part of Turkey. This paper includes
folk medicinal plants and ethnopharmacological information
obtained during this ethnobotanical study. The aim of this study
is to collect and identify the plants used by the local people for
therapeutic purposes and to reveal information about traditional
herbal medicine. The materials of this study are the plant
specimens collected during the fieldwork. The information was
obtained through open and semi-structured interviews from
the local people. In addition, cultural importance index (CI),
medicinal importance index (MI) and use report (UR) were
calculated. Eighty-nine folk medicinal plants belonging to 39
families were identified in this study. Among them, 71 species are wild, and 18 species are cultivated plants. The most common
families are Lamiaceae (25%), Rosaceae (9.1%) and Asteraceae
(9.1%). Consequently, 192 medicinal uses (remedies) belonging
to 89 taxa were recorded. According to the use reports (UR), the
most important medicinal plants were Allium sativum (92 UR),
Lavandula stoechas subsp. stoechas (89 UR), Vitex agnus-castus
(89 UR), Pinus brutia (87 UR), Olea europaea subsp. europaea
(83 UR), Sideritis trojana (83 UR) and Cydonia oblonga (80 UR).
Infusion (53.4%) is the most common preparation method in the
research area. Traditional folk remedies are still important and
used in therapy, especially in the villages in mountainous areas.
Keywords :
Ethnobotany; Folk medicinal plants; Bayramic; Çanakkale; Turkey.