Traditional medicinal use of plants from the genus Crataegus in the Pirot District (Serbia)
2024
Marković, Marija S. | Nikolić, Biljana M. | Pljevljakušić, Dejan S. | Rakonjac, Ljubinko B. | Braunović, Sonja Z. | Jovanović, Filip A. | Stankov Jovanović, Vesna
The informants in the rural areas of the Pirot District were surveyed on the knowledge and use of medicinal plants. The plants from the genus Crataegus were mentioned by 119 respondents. C. laevigata was mentioned against high blood pressure. C. monogyna was mentioned for the following applications: against high blood pressure, for the heart, improving heart rate, for circulation, and against sclerosis. C. pentagyna was mentioned against high blood pressure, for the heart, improving heart rate, strengthening the heart, against cardiac diseases, for circulation, immune system improvement, against the common cold, cough, and diabetes, for disease prevention (coffee replacement), as hot drink, and against kidney and bladder diseases. The medicinal uses, considered novelties in our research, were noted and stressed because they were not mentioned in previously published ethnobotanical papers on the Balkans.
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