Axiotis Evangelos, Halabalaki Maria, Skaltsounis Leandros A
Department of Pharmacognosy and Natural Products Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Front Pharmacol. 2018 May 23;9:409. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2018.00409. eCollection 2018.
Greek islands of the North Aegean Region are a group of nine inhabited islands (Lemnos, Agios Efstratios, Lesvos, Chios, Psara, Oinousses, Samos, Ikaria, and Fourni) located in the northern part of the Aegean Sea, close to Asia Minor. Each island of this region can be considered autonomous in terms of culture and biodiversity. With this work we try to evaluate the status of the traditional uses of medicinal plants in this region. Endemic and endangered species such as Boiss., L., Boiss., L., Murb., are still used by locals to treat different ailments. Moreover, the use of some species for the treatment of specific diseases has been reported for the first time. We report about 109 wild plants of medicinal importance, from 52 families, listing their uses for therapeutic purposes and galenic preparations provided by local medical doctors and pharmacists. The information we include was derived from literature sources and additionally collected through semi-structured interviews conducted on 200 informants (100 men and 100 women). Additionally, informant consensus factor (FIC) and UV value were calculated for the medicinal plants in the current study in relation with the diseases treated. This research confirms the importance of the medicinal plants and the diffusion of their use in traditional medicine within this region. This ethnopharmacological survey is a fundamental step for the preservation of the local knowledge both for further scientific research and for the protection of endangered and endemic medicinal plants.
北爱琴海地区的希腊岛屿是位于爱琴海北部、靠近小亚细亚的一组九个有人居住的岛屿（利姆诺斯岛、圣埃夫斯特拉蒂奥斯岛、莱斯沃斯岛、希俄斯岛、普萨拉岛、奥伊努塞斯岛、萨摩斯岛、伊卡里亚岛和富尔尼岛）。该地区的每个岛屿在文化和生物多样性方面都可被视为自治的。通过这项工作，我们试图评估该地区药用植物传统用途的现状。当地居民仍在使用诸如Boiss.、L.、Boiss.、L.、Murb.等特有和濒危物种来治疗各种疾病。此外，首次报道了一些物种用于治疗特定疾病的情况。我们报告了来自52个科的约109种具有药用价值的野生植物，列出了它们的治疗用途以及当地医生和药剂师提供的盖伦制剂。我们纳入的信息来自文献资料，并通过对200名受访者（100名男性和100名女性）进行的半结构化访谈额外收集。此外，针对本研究中与所治疗疾病相关的药用植物计算了信息提供者共识因子（FIC）和紫外线值。这项研究证实了药用植物的重要性及其在该地区传统医学中的使用传播。这项民族药理学调查是保护当地知识的重要一步，无论是对于进一步的科学研究还是对于保护濒危和特有的药用植物而言。
