Department of Drug Technology and Social Pharmacy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, LT-50162 Kaunas, Lithuania.
Institute of Pharmaceutical Technologies, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, LT-50162 Kaunas, Lithuania.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Mar 29;19(7):4054. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19074054.
The documentation of ethnopharmaceutical knowledge has always been important for the preservation of countries' cultural, social, and economic identity. The COVID-19 pandemic with the collapse of healthcare, which has left the individual health to self-care, has also forced us to look back at ethnopharmacology from a practical point of view. This is the first study in Lithuania, dedicated entirely to ethnopharmaceuticals used for skin diseases and cosmetics, and the first study to analyse ethnopharmacology as a Lithuanian phenomenon during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The main purpose of this study was to collect and evaluate ethnopharmaceutical knowledge regarding skin diseases and cosmetics in Šiauliai District, Lithuania during the COVID-19 pandemic from July 2020 to October 2021. This study surveyed 50 respondents; the survey was conducted using the deep interview method. The respondents mentioned 67 species of medicinal plants from 37 different families used for skin diseases (64.18%), cosmetics (13.44%) and cosmeceuticals (22.38%). Of the 67 plant species, 43 (64%) were not included in the European Medicines Agency monographs and only 14 species (21%) of all included species were used with European Medicines Agency approved medical indications for skin diseases. In terms of public health, the safety of "self-treatment" and recovery rituals for skin diseases are no less important than ethnopharmacological knowledge and its application, this being especially relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic.
民族药物学知识的记录对于保护国家的文化、社会和经济身份一直很重要。COVID-19 大流行导致医疗保健系统崩溃，迫使人们只能依靠自我护理来维持健康，这也促使我们从实践的角度重新审视民族药理学。这是立陶宛第一项专门研究用于皮肤病和化妆品的民族药物学的研究，也是第一项在 COVID-19 大流行期间分析立陶宛民族药理学现象的研究。本研究的主要目的是在 COVID-19 大流行期间（2020 年 7 月至 2021 年 10 月）从文化角度收集和评估立陶宛 Šiauliai 地区的皮肤病和化妆品的民族药物学知识。本研究调查了 50 名受访者；使用深度访谈法进行了调查。受访者提到了 67 种来自 37 个不同科的药用植物，用于治疗皮肤病（64.18%）、化妆品（13.44%）和药妆（22.38%）。在 67 种植物中，有 43 种（64%）未被欧洲药品管理局专论收录，只有 14 种（21%）被收录的所有植物物种被用于经欧洲药品管理局批准的皮肤病医疗适应证。从公共卫生的角度来看，“自我治疗”和皮肤病康复仪式的安全性与民族药理学知识及其应用一样重要，尤其是在 COVID-19 大流行期间。
