Department of Botany, University of Granada, Spain.
J Ethnopharmacol. 2010 May 4;129(1):87-105. doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2010.02.016. Epub 2010 Mar 11.
The aim of this work is to catalogue, document, and make known the uses of plants for folk medicine in the western part of the province of Granada (southern Spain). An analysis was made of the species used, parts of the plant employed, preparation methods, administration means, and the ailments treated in relation to pathological groups.
The work was performed in 16 municipalities within the study zone. The participants were located mainly by questionnaires distributed in public and private centres. The information, gathered through semi-structured open interviews of a total of 279 people, was included in a database for subsequent analysis. A floristic catalogue of the territory was compiled, enabling analyses of the relevance of certain botanical families in popular medicine.
Great diversity was established among medicinal species in the region. A total of 229 species of plants were catalogued for use in human medicine to prevent or treat 100 different health problems covering 14 different pathological groups. The number of references reached 1963. The popular pharmacopoeia of this area relies primarily on plants to treat digestive, respiratory, and circulatory problems, using mainly the soft parts of the plant (leaves and flowers) prepared in simple ways (decoction, infusion). An analysis of the medicinal ritual uses of 34 species and the different symptoms reflected a certain acculturation in relation to ethnobotanical knowledge in the last 20 years.
The traditional knowledge of plants was shown in relation to medicinal use, reflecting a striking diversity of species and uses, as well as their importance in popular plant therapy in the study zone. These traditions could pave the way for future phytochemical and pharmacological studies and thereby give rise to new medicinal resources.
本工作旨在对西班牙南部格拉纳达省西部（西南部）用于民间医学的植物进行编目、记录并公诸于世。分析了所用物种、植物部位、制备方法、给药途径以及与病理组相关的治疗疾病。
在研究区域的 16 个市镇进行了这项工作。参与者主要通过在公共和私人中心分发问卷来确定。通过对总共 279 人的半结构化开放式访谈收集的信息被纳入数据库进行后续分析。编制了该地区的植物名录，从而能够分析某些植物科在民间医学中的相关性。
该地区药用物种的多样性很大。共编目了 229 种植物，用于预防或治疗 100 种不同的健康问题，涵盖了 14 种不同的病理组。参考资料的数量达到 1963 条。该地区的民间药方主要依赖植物来治疗消化、呼吸和循环问题，主要使用植物的软部分（叶子和花），以简单的方式制备（煎剂、浸剂）。对 34 种药用仪式用途和不同症状的分析反映了过去 20 年来与民族植物学知识的一定文化融合。
从药用角度看植物的传统知识，反映出物种和用途的显著多样性，以及它们在研究区域民间植物疗法中的重要性。这些传统为未来的植物化学和药理学研究铺平了道路，并由此产生了新的药用资源。
