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The aim of our research to make an inventory of folk remedies used in Gerze District (Sinop). For thispurpose, scientific trips were organized to the study area in May-August 2009. In the visited locationsethnobotanical information was collected by face-to-face interviews and open and semi-structuredquestionnaire. After interviews, the plants that are being used as folk medicine were collected in situunder guidance of informants. Scientific names of the plants were determined and plant specimens weredeposited in Gazi University Faculty of Pharmacy Herbarium (GUEF). To assess the reliability ofresults, ethnobotanical data was analysed through three quantitative indices: “informant consensusfactor (FIC)”, “use value (UV)” and “relative frequency of citation (RFC)”.As a result of these interviews conducted in 18 villages with 92 people (29 women; 63 men), 65 plantspecies from 42 families have been determined to be used as folk medicine in Gerze District. Rosaceaefamily is the most used family in the preparation of folk remedies with 7 species. Most cited plant specieswas Olea europaea L. (27 citation) and followed by Sambucus ebulus L. (24 citation), Brassica oleraceaL. (21 citation) and Urtica dioica L. (20 citation). The highest FIC value was obtained in dermatologicaldisorders (0.752); respiratory and musculoskeletal system disorders are other pharmacologicalcategories which has high FIC value (0.6860 and 0.6825, respectively). Olea europaea L. (UV: 0.293,RFC: 0.184) and Sambucus ebulus L. (UV: 0.260, RFC: 0.239) were the species that have highest UVand RFC values.As a result of this study, once again it was revealed that the folk medicine knowledge is rapidlydisappearing in Gerze District as in other regions of Turkey and the necessity of conductingethnobotanical inventory studies in the whole country. |
