Multi-functionality of the few: current and past uses of wild plants for food and healing in Liubań region, Belarus

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• 作者：Renata Sõukand ; Yanina Hrynevich&#8230
• 关键词：Belarus ; Wild plants ; Food plants ; Medicinal plants ; Food ; medicine ; Local knowledge ; Ethnobotany ; Ethnopharmacology ; Ethnoveterinary ; Liubań
• 刊名：Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：13
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1656KB
• 刊物主题：Complementary & Alternative Medicine; Biodiversity; Ecology;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1746-4269
• 卷排序：13

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BackgroundThis study examined the use of wild plants in the food, medicinal and veterinary areas within a small territory limited to one village council in the Liubań district of Belarus. The objectives of the research were to document the current and past uses of wild plants in this region for food and human/animal medication; to analyse the food, medicinal and veterinary areas in the context of wild plants; and to qualitatively compare the results with relevant publications concerning the wild food plants of Belarus.