The Appeal of Ethnobotanical Folklore Records: Medicinal Plant Use in Setomaa, Räpina and Vastseliina Parishes, Estonia (1888–1996)
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Seto (Setomaa), Räpina and Vastseliina Parishes
The Organization of Medicinal Support in the Region
1.2. The Aim of the Work
- (1)
- to analyze the historical material and compare the two regions; and
- (2)
- to provide an example of how to treat archival data in ethnobotanical research, in such a way that it is fully useable in modern scientific research and comparable with currently obtained data.
- (a)
- reviewed folklore ethnobotanical texts from the HERBA database [8], and identified the various plants and diseases whenever possible; and
- (b)
- limited our research to the whole of Setomaa and only the two parishes of Võru (Räpina and Vastseliina) in order to have a relatively comparable number of texts.
2. Results
2.1. Cleaning the Data
- the text clearly referred to a pharmacy drug or a processed product purchased from a travelling merchant;
- no clear reference to the plant was given (e.g., make the broom from nine leafy trees);
- students supplying the records clearly misinterpreted the information and/or clearly confused the plants;
- there was no reference to the plant’s application (stating that it was just medicine);
- poisonous aspects of a plant were highlighted with no medicinal application; and
- when students used both the Latin name and local name of the plant deriving from literary sources and a clear literature influence could be detected.
2.2. The Identification of Plants
2.3. The Identification of Etic Disease Categories
2.4. A General Overview of Plant Uses
2.5. A Cross-Cultural and Diachronic Comparison
3. Discussion
- (1)
- Not all pre-systematized data may be suitable for the research purpose, and therefore some of the data may need to be removed due to not having sufficient information (as we did with missing information on a specific identified use).
- (2)
- One needs to be critical of the data, especially if the collection has some competitive undertones and there is a possibility of group work or risk that the actual data was beautified.
- (3)
- It is better to under-identify the data than over-identify it; working with historical data, especially folklore material, it is inevitable that some taxa remain unidentified.
- (4)
- It is important to involve specialists in the local flora also having a background in historical biogeography.
- (5)
- Working with such a dataset also requires knowledge of the purchasable material in the region.
- (6)
- The historical epidemiology of the region also needs to be studied prior to disease identification.
4. Materials and Methods
- Early: 1888–1904 (80 UR);
- Middle: 1928–1942 (871 UR); and
- Late: 1949–1996 (121 UR).
Data Comparison
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Blood: 8 | Urological: 20 | Respiratory: 134 |
---|---|---|
blood cleaning: 5 | blood peeing: 3 | cough: 129 |
blood pressure: 1 | kidney and bladder disease: 10 | difficulties in breathing: 1 |
poor blood: 2 | kidney disease: 5 | nose bleeding: 2 |
oedema: 1 | sore throat: 2 | |
urinary retention: 1 | ||
Pregnancy, etc.: 3 | Female genital: 11 | Cardiovascular: 15 |
giving birth: 3 | problems with menstruation: 4 | heart diseases: 15 |
women diseases: 7 | ||
Culture-bound disease: 79 | Musculoskeletal: 64 | Neurological: 49 |
kaetus (evil eye): 3 | backache: 4 | calming: 6 |
halltõbi: 4 | bone pain: 3 | epilepsy: 1 |
internal disease: 38 | foot diseases: 4 | headache: 13 |
kidi (tendovaginitis or bursitis in the wrist): 11 | joint disease: 1 | nerve disease: 8 |
vaivaja, vaivajatõbi (nightmare or hernia): 3 | joint dislocation: 4 | paralysis: 2 |
pistja (stixis, pleuritis, etc.): 6 | jooksva/rheumatic: 48 | seizures: 12 |
riis (umbilical hernia in children): 2 | sleep disorder: 7 | |
tiir (itchy soles): 1 | ||
tsirgutõbi (a disease in young children): 1 | ||
ussiviga (chorea in young children): 4 | ||
Skin: 200 | Digestive: 227 | General: 250 |
abscess: 9 | appendicitis: 1 | against several diseases: 15 |
bee stings: 1 | bile disease: 1 | cold: 57 |
bleeding: 19 | constipation: 5 | cholera: 3 |
boil: 26 | diarrhea: 12 | disinfection: 6 |
burned wound: 13 | digestion problems: 10 | fever: 10 |
skin cancer: 1 | gastric disease: 13 | for sweating: 5 |
cracked lips: 4 | gastric ulcers: 2 | freezing: 6 |
cut wound: 2 | hemorrhoids: 1 | good for health: 4 |
dandruff: 4 | heartburn: 2 | inflammation: 2 |
eruption: 4 | indigestion: 3 | loss of appetite: 9 |
erysipelas: 22 | jaundice: 8 | lung disease: 34 |
for beauty: 4 | liver disease: 6 | pain: 3 |
fresh wound: 3 | mouth diseases: 1 | prophylactics: 4 |
hair loss: 1 | nausea: 2 | rabies: 1 |
inflammation: 7 | stomach disease: 53 | stroke: 2 |
itching: 1 | stomach worms: 14 | throat disease: 21 |
local pain: 2 | stomachache: 64 | tiredness: 1 |
lump on skin: 6 | tapeworm: 4 | tuberculosis: 62 |
pimples: 6 | tooth diseases: 7 | typhus: 2 |
roos (erysipelas): 2 | toothache: 18 | whooping cough: 2 |
rotten wound: 10 | vomiting: 1 | |
scabies: 3 | ||
scabs: 3 | ||
skin disinfection: 2 | ||
skin diseases: 1 | ||
snake bite: 5 | ||
splinter: 1 | ||
sunburn: 1 | ||
warts: 8 | ||
wound: 28 | ||
Ear diseases: 2 | Eye diseases: 10 |
Collection/Parish | Räpina | Setomaa | Vastseliina | Sum |
---|---|---|---|---|
E | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
ERA | 27 | 45 | 1 | 73 |
ERM | 3 | 3 | ||
H | 22 | 25 | 28 | 75 |
KKI | 6 | 6 | ||
RKM | 37 | 43 | 11 | 91 |
Vilbaste | 343 | 383 | 90 | 816 |
SUM | 434 | 503 | 135 | 1072 |
Family | Taxa | Local Name | Etic Disease Category | UR |
---|---|---|---|---|
Acoraceae | Acorus calamus L. L | Jõekalmus S, lesnagud S, kalmus, tatersäla V, kalmusejuur | Cardiovascular | 1 |
Culture-bound disease | 1 | |||
Digestive | 7 | |||
General | 7 | |||
Musculoskeletal | 3 | |||
Skin | 1 | |||
Urological | 1 | |||
Amaranthaceae | Beta vulgaris L. C | peet S, verevä nakri S | Eye | 1 |
Skin | 4 | |||
Amaryllidaceae | Allium cepa L. C | sibul, sippul S, sipul V | Cardiovascular | 2 |
Digestive | 7 | |||
Ear | 1 | |||
General | 5 | |||
Respiratory | 5 | |||
Skin | 8 | |||
Urological | 1 | |||
Allium sativum L. C | kurslaga S, kurslakk S, küüslauk S | Digestive | 1 | |
General | 1 | |||
Respiratory | 1 | |||
Skin | 1 | |||
Apiaceae | Angelica sylvestris L. L | heinputk V, pütsk V | Digestive | 2 |
Carum carvi L. L | köömned V, küümned | Cardiovascular | 1 | |
Digestive | 5 | |||
General | 6 | |||
Respiratory | 2 | |||
Asparagaceae | Convallaria majalis L. L | maikelluke S | General | 1 |
Asphodelaceae | Aloe arborescens Mill. C | aalo, aaloe, aalus S, aleo S, pakso lill S | Culture-bound disease | 1 |
General | 6 | |||
Respiratory | 1 | |||
Skin | 7 | |||
Asteraceae | Achillea millefolium L. L | raudrohi, verihein, verihain, valgõ lill S | Culture-bound disease | 2 |
Digestive | 11 | |||
Female genital | 2 | |||
General | 5 | |||
Musculoskeletal | 1 | |||
Neurological | 1 | |||
Respiratory | 6 | |||
Skin | 10 | |||
Antennaria dioica (L.) Gaertn. L | kassikäpad S | Female genital | 1 | |
Arctium tomentosum Mill. L | takjas, takk S | Blood | 2 | |
Culture-bound disease | 3 | |||
Digestive | 3 | |||
General | 3 | |||
Respiratory | 7 | |||
Skin | 11 | |||
Urological | 1 | |||
Artemisia absinthium L. L | koirohi, pänül S, pälüm | Culture-bound disease | 2 | |
Digestive | 5 | |||
General | 3 | |||
Musculoskeletal | 1 | |||
Skin | 4 | |||
Carduus crispus L. or Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Ten. L | karuohtja V | Urological | 1 | |
Gnaphalium uliginosum L. L | sammaspoolehain, sammaspoolehein, sammaspoolhain S, sammaspoolikuhain S, sammaspoolikuhein V, sammaspoolõhain S, soo-kassiurb V | Skin | 10 | |
Matricaria chamomilla L. C | kamel V, teekummel | General | 6 | |
Neurological | 4 | |||
Respiratory | 2 | |||
Matricaria discoidea DC. L | kaamel V, kammel V, kumelitee V, kaamelihain V, kummel, kummulid S, lõhnav kummel, ubinhain, ubinhein, unõhain S, upinhain, uppinhain S | Culture-bound disease | 2 | |
Digestive | 9 | |||
Ear | 1 | |||
Eye | 3 | |||
General | 15 | |||
Musculoskeletal | 1 | |||
Neurological | 2 | |||
Pregnancy, childbearing, etc. | 1 | |||
Respiratory | 11 | |||
Skin | 6 | |||
Scorzoneroides autumnalis (L.) MoenchL, Solidago virgaurea L. L or with lower probability, many other taxa | arnikas, ärnika S | Culture-bound disease | 6 | |
Digestive | 3 | |||
General | 2 | |||
Neurological | 1 | |||
Respiratory | 2 | |||
Solidago virgaurea L. L | ärnetsa V | Musculoskeletal | 1 | |
Tanacetum vulgare L. L | kolladsõ lill S, kollane lill S, solknaheinad S, solknarohi V | Digestive | 4 | |
Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg. L | võilill | Digestive | 1 | |
Skin | 1 | |||
Tragopogon pratensis L. L | piimjuur V | Digestive | 1 | |
Tripleurospermum inodorum (L.) Sch.Bip. L | kammel S | Digestive | 1 | |
Respiratory | 1 | |||
Tussilago farfara L. L | ämmaleht V | Skin | 1 | |
Betulaceae | Alnus spp. L (incl. Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn. and Alnus incana (L.) Moench) | lepp, soolepp S imälepp S imälepp S valge lepp V | Culture-bound disease | 2 |
Skin | 4 | |||
Digestive | 1 | |||
Betula spp. L | kask, kõiv, kõo S | Culture-bound disease | 2 | |
Digestive | 2 | |||
General | 5 | |||
Musculoskeletal | 7 | |||
Respiratory | 2 | |||
Skin | 8 | |||
Brassicaceae | Armoracia rusticana G. Gaertn., B. Mey. & Scherb. C | maarjaritska V, mädarõigas V | Culture-bound disease | 1 |
Digestive | 2 | |||
Brassica oleracea var. capitata f. AlbaC | kapsas S | Eye | 1 | |
Neurological | 2 | |||
Skin | 1 | |||
Brassica rapa L. C | naar V | General | 1 | |
Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medik. L | hiirekõrv V | Musculoskeletal | 1 | |
Sinapis alba L. C | sinep V | Eye | 1 | |
Cannabaceae | Cannabis sativa L. C | kanebi, kanep V | Culture-bound disease | 3 |
General | 1 | |||
Caprifoliaceae | Valeriana officinalis L. L | balderjan V, palderjaan V, palderjan, paltõjan S | Cardiovascular | 3 |
Culture-bound disease | 7 | |||
Digestive | 17 | |||
Female genital | 1 | |||
General | 2 | |||
Neurological | 20 | |||
Crassulaceae | Hylotelephium maximum (L.) Holub L | kidsihain, kidsihein V, maapähkme V | Culture-bound disease | 7 |
General | 1 | |||
Sempervivum globiferum L. N | maasibul V | Neurological | 1 | |
Cupressaceae | Juniperus communis L. L | kadajas, kadakas, kadak V, kattai | Blood | 1 |
Culture-bound disease | 4 | |||
Digestive | 3 | |||
General | 19 | |||
Musculoskeletal | 1 | |||
Neurological | 2 | |||
Respiratory | 1 | |||
Urological | 8 | |||
Linum usitatissimum L. C | lina | General | 3 | |
Skin | 6 | |||
Cyperaceae | Eriophorum vaginatum L. L | pikki hain V | Skin | 1 |
Droseraceae | Drosera rotundifolia L. L | huulehain S, huulhain S, huulhein S | Skin | 5 |
Equisetaceae | Equisetum arvense L. L | põldosi V, tilkhain V | Skin | 1 |
Equisetum spp. L | osjad V | Urological | 1 | |
Ericaceae | Andromeda polifolia L. L | tsihknaõied S | Respiratory | 1 |
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. L | leesikad, tsiamarja S, lehike S, tsiapalohka S, tsiapalokka S | Culture-bound disease | 1 | |
General | 1 | |||
Respiratory | 1 | |||
Urological | 2 | |||
Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull L | kanarik S, kanarpik S, palokanarik S | Digestive | 1 | |
General | 4 | |||
Musculoskeletal | 2 | |||
Skin | 3 | |||
Chimaphila umbellata (L.) W.P.C.Barton L | obijoinihain S, obijoinilill S, obijoon S, opijon S, obijoon S, oobium, oopiumiheinad V, opijann S | Cardiovascular | 2 | |
Culture-bound disease | 3 | |||
Digestive | 4 | |||
General | 1 | |||
Neurological | 2 | |||
Respiratory | 4 | |||
Rhododendron tomentosum Harmaja L | sookael V, sookanarbik S, sookanarik S, suukanarik S sootsähknad V, soovitsked V, tsihk S, tsihkna S | Digestive | 2 | |
Respiratory | 1 | |||
General | 4 | |||
Musculoskeletal | 2 | |||
Skin | 1 | |||
Vaccinium myrtillus L. L | mustikas, mustkas S, mustigõ S | Digestive | 13 | |
Vaccinium oxycoccos L. L | jõhvikad V, kuremari S, kuremarjad | Digestive | 1 | |
General | 2 | |||
Neurological | 1 | |||
Skin | 1 | |||
Vaccinium vitis-idaea L. L | palõhk S, palohkna S, palovka S, palukas, pohl, pohlak V | Culture-bound disease | 1 | |
General | 5 | |||
Musculoskeletal | 2 | |||
Neurological | 1 | |||
Respiratory | 5 | |||
Urological | 2 | |||
Fagaceae | Quercus robur L. L | tamm, tammõ S | Blood | 1 |
Culture-bound disease | 2 | |||
Digestive | 4 | |||
General | 3 | |||
Skin | 5 | |||
Gentianaceae | Gentiana cruciata L. E | vaivajarohi V | Musculoskeletal | 1 |
Gentiana spp. E | süäme alodsõ hain S, südamealuse heinad S | Cardiovascular | 3 | |
Grossulariaceae | Ribes nigrum L. C | mustad hõrakad V | General | 1 |
Hypericaceae | Hypericum spp. L | naistepuna V | Digestive | 1 |
Female genital | 1 | |||
Lamiaceae | Mentha spicata L. C | rohemünt V | Digestive | 1 |
Mentha aquatica L. L | vesimünt S | Neurological | 1 | |
Mentha spp. C | piparmünt, münt V, aia-vehverments V, pibarment S, vehverloints S, vehvermänts V, vehverments | Neurological | 4 | |
Culture-bound disease | 1 | |||
Digestive | 7 | |||
Female genital | 1 | |||
General | 7 | |||
Respiratory | 5 | |||
Thymus serpyllum L. L | jaanihaina S, jaanihein, kadedushein V, kaetiserohi V, üheksahaiguserohi V, kolmekordne rohi V, liivatee, üheksatõverohi S, maarjahein, pühamaarjahaina S | Digestive | 2 | |
Eye | 2 | |||
General | 12 | |||
Musculoskeletal | 3 | |||
Neurological | 1 | |||
Pregnancy, childbearing, etc. | 1 | |||
Respiratory | 11 | |||
Trifolium pratense L. L | ristikhein | General | 1 | |
Musculoskeletal | 2 | |||
Respiratory | 1 | |||
Skin | 1 | |||
Trifolium repens L. L | valge ristikhein | Female genital | 1 | |
General | 1 | |||
Trifolium sp. L | maarjaristikhein | General | 1 | |
Lauraceae | Laurus nobilis L P | loorber V | Blood | 1 |
Lycopodiaceae | Huperzia selago (L.) Bernh. ex Schrank & Mart. N | nõiakõld S, nõiakollad V | Cardiovascular | 1 |
Eye | 1 | |||
Lycopodium clavatum L. N | karukollad V, nõiakollad V | Skin | 1 | |
Melanthiaceae | Paris quadrifolia L. L | – | Digestive | 1 |
Menyanthaceae | Menyanthes trifoliata L. L | ubalehe V, ubaleht V | Digestive | 1 |
General | 2 | |||
Oleaceae | Fraxinus excelsior L. L | saar V | Musculoskeletal | 1 |
Orchidaceae | Dactylorhiza maculata (L.) Soó N | jumalakäpp V, juudakäpp V | Digestive | 1 |
Papaveraceae | Chelidonium majus L. L | vererohi V | Urological | 1 |
Corydalis solida (L.) Clairv L. | vaivaja haina S | Culture-bound disease | 2 | |
Fumaria officinalis L. L | juuksehain V | Skin | 1 | |
Papaver somniferum L. C | magun S, makunna S | Digestive | 1 | |
Neurological | 1 | |||
Pinaceae | Picea abies (L.) H.Karst. L | kuus, kuusk | Digestive | 1 |
General | 10 | |||
Musculoskeletal | 4 | |||
Respiratory | 2 | |||
Skin | 15 | |||
Pinus sylvestris L. L | mänd, pettai V,petäi S, pedäjäs S | Digestive | 2 | |
General | 27 | |||
Musculoskeletal | 8 | |||
Respiratory | 11 | |||
Skin | 9 | |||
Piperaceae | Piper nigrum L. P | pipar | Digestive | 2 |
Respiratory | 1 | |||
Plantaginaceae | Plantago major L. L | paiselehe, paiseleht, umbleht V, ummelehe S, teeleht V | Culture-bound disease | 1 |
Eye | 1 | |||
General | 2 | |||
Musculoskeletal | 1 | |||
Skin | 24 | |||
Poaceae | Avena sativa L. C | kaar, kaer | Culture-bound disease | 4 |
Digestive | 4 | |||
General | 5 | |||
Hordeum vulgare L. C | kesvad V, oder V | Skin | 3 | |
Secale cereale L. C | rüä S, rüga V, rukis | Digestive | 2 | |
Musculoskeletal | 1 | |||
Skin | 5 | |||
Polygonaceae | Persicaria amphibia (L.) Delarbre or Glyceria maxima (Hartm.) Holmb. L | läsnäk S, lesnak S, lesnäk S | General | 3 |
Respiratory | 2 | |||
Polygala amarella Crantz L | vahulill S | Skin | 1 | |
Polygonum arenastrum Boreau L | morohain S, niseldushain V, niseldushein V, nisõldushaina V | Musculoskeletal | 3 | |
Skin | 1 | |||
Polygonum aviculare L. L | – | Musculoskeletal | 1 | |
Rumex crispus L. L | kärnhain S hobuhain S | Skin | 2 | |
Respiratory | 1 | |||
Rumex hydrolapathum Huds. L | kärnahain S | Skin | 2 | |
Polypodiaceae | Dryopteris filix-mas (L.) Schott L or Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn L; (Dennstaedtiaceae) | maarjasõnajalg V, sõnajalg V | Culture-bound disease | 2 |
Digestive | 7 | |||
Musculoskeletal | 2 | |||
Neurological | 1 | |||
Ranunculaceae | Anemone nemorosa L. L | haragheinad S, haraklilled S | Digestive | 2 |
Rhamnaceae | Frangula alnus Mill. L | kisõpuu S, kitsepuu S, kitsetoome V, kitseuibo, vohopaadsa, soemära S, paakspuu | Digestive | 8 |
Rosaceae | Alchemilla vulgaris L. L | kortsleht V | Digestive | 1 |
Potentilla argentea L. L | verehain S | Skin | 1 | |
Filipendula ulmaria (L.) Maxim. L | angervaks V | Pregnancy, childbearing, etc. | 1 | |
Skin | 1 | |||
Fragaria vesca L. L | maasikas | General | 3 | |
Respiratory | 4 | |||
Malus domestica (Suckow) Borkh. C | õunapuu S, uibu S, uip S, uipoh S | Culture-bound disease | 1 | |
General | 3 | |||
Respiratory | 2 | |||
Potentilla erecta (L.) Raeusch. L | kalkanajuured S, kalgan V, maramaar S, maran, nabahain V, tedremadar V, tedremaran, tedremarja juured S | Blood | 1 | |
Culture-bound disease | 6 | |||
Digestive | 14 | |||
General | 1 | |||
Prunus cerasus L. C | kirss, vislapuu S | Digestive | 1 | |
Respiratory | 2 | |||
Prunus padus L. L | toome, toomingas | Cardiovascular | 1 | |
Digestive | 14 | |||
General | 7 | |||
Neurological | 3 | |||
Respiratory | 2 | |||
Skin | 3 | |||
Pyrus communis L. C | pruusa S | Culture-bound disease | 1 | |
Rubus chamaemorus L. L | murakad S | Musculoskeletal | 2 | |
Rubus idaeus L. L | vabarna | Digestive | 1 | |
General | 10 | |||
Respiratory | 7 | |||
Rubus polonicus Weston L | mustad vabarnad | General | 1 | |
Sorbus aucuparia L. L | pihlakas, pihl S, pihlapuu S | Culture-bound disease | 4 | |
Digestive | 4 | |||
General | 7 | |||
Respiratory | 3 | |||
Skin | 2 | |||
Rubiaceae | Coffea sp. P | kohv V | Culture-bound disease | 1 |
Respiratory | 1 | |||
Galium boreale L. L | niseldushain, nikastushein | Musculoskeletal | 1 | |
Salicaceae | Populus tremula L. L | haab | General | 2 |
Salix spp. L | pai S, paju | Digestive | 1 | |
General | 1 | |||
Respiratory | 2 | |||
Skin | 8 | |||
Sapindaceae | Acer platanoides L.L | vaher V | General | 1 |
Solanaceae | Capsicum annuum L. (Longum Group) C | kõdrapipar S, pipar söögipipõr S, türgi pipar V, verevä pipar S verikõder, veripipõr S | Digestive | 22 |
General | 1 | |||
Musculoskeletal | 2 | |||
Respiratory | 6 | |||
Hyoscyamus niger L. N | hambahain S | Digestive | 2 | |
Nicotiana rustica L. C | tubaguhain S, tubak S, tubakas, tubakulehe V | Culture-bound disease | 4 | |
Digestive | 2 | |||
Respiratory | 1 | |||
Skin | 2 | |||
Solanum dulcamara L. L | maavitsad V, päris maavits | Musculoskeletal | 6 | |
Skin | 6 | |||
Solanum tuberosum L. C | kartohvel S, kartokas S, kartul | Culture-bound disease | 1 | |
Digestive | 2 | |||
Musculoskeletal | 1 | |||
Skin | 2 | |||
Thymelaeaceae | Daphne mezereum L. L | küüvits V | Digestive | 3 |
Tiliaceae | Tilia cordata Mill. L | lõhmus, pahka V, pähn V, pärn, pähnäpuu V, pärnapuu V | Blood | 2 |
Digestive | 2 | |||
General | 20 | |||
Respiratory | 10 | |||
Skin | 4 | |||
Urological | 1 | |||
Urticaceae | Urtica dioica L. L | nõges | General | 2 |
Musculoskeletal | 4 | |||
Respiratory | 2 | |||
Skin | 2 | |||
Urtica urens L. N | raudnõges S | General | 2 | |
Skin | 2 | |||
Viburnaceae | Viburnum opulus L. L | lodjapuu | Digestive | 3 |
General | 1 | |||
Neurological | 1 | |||
Respiratory | 2 | |||
Adoxa moschatellina L. L | mättahain S, mättalill S | Respiratory | 1 | |
Cardiovascular | 1 | |||
Unidentified taxon | härjapää V, verihein V | Respiratory | 1 | |
kandrohi S | Digestive | 2 | ||
Female genital | 1 | |||
karamarjad S | Urological | 1 | ||
kärnõ rohi S | Skin | 1 | ||
lepakukud S | General | 1 | ||
luuvaluheinad V | Musculoskeletal | 1 | ||
nätselmehein V | General | 2 | ||
Musculoskeletal | 1 | |||
palohain S | Culture-bound disease | 1 | ||
pinipussuhain S | General | 1 | ||
punatse lill V | Female genital | 1 | ||
tõrvaleht V | General | 1 | ||
tõrvaõied S | Digestive | 1 | ||
valge kassikäpp V | Female genital | 1 | ||
valge lill V | Female genital | 1 | ||
valge lill | Respiratory | 2 | ||
valgõ lill | digestive | 2 | ||
no name S | Skin | 1 |
Abbreviation | Full Name of the Collection | Years of Collection | No. of Pages of Full Collection | No. of Texts in Setomaa | No. of Texts in Räpina | No. of Texts in Vastseliina |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
H | Folklore collection of J. Hurt | 1860–1906 | 114,696 | 40 | 17 | 27 |
E | Folklore collection of M. J. Eisen | 1880–1934 | 90,100 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
ERM | Folklore collection of Estonian National Museum | 1915–1925 | 9398 | 4 | ||
ERA | Folklore collection of Estonian Folklore Archives | 1927–1944 | 265,098 | 39 | 28 | 1 |
Vilbaste | Folklore collection of G. Vilbaste | 1907–1966 | 20,327 | 520 | 309 | 196 |
KKI | Institute of Language and Literature folklore collection | 1941–1984 | 35,679 | 6 | ||
RKM | Folklore collection of Folklore Department of Estonian Literary Museum | 1945–1996 | 447,231 | 35 | 37 | 7 |
SUM of records | 982,529 | 631 | 400 | 237 |
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Sõukand, R.; Kalle, R. The Appeal of Ethnobotanical Folklore Records: Medicinal Plant Use in Setomaa, Räpina and Vastseliina Parishes, Estonia (1888–1996). Plants 2022, 11, 2698. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11202698
Sõukand R, Kalle R. The Appeal of Ethnobotanical Folklore Records: Medicinal Plant Use in Setomaa, Räpina and Vastseliina Parishes, Estonia (1888–1996). Plants. 2022; 11(20):2698. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11202698
Chicago/Turabian StyleSõukand, Renata, and Raivo Kalle. 2022. "The Appeal of Ethnobotanical Folklore Records: Medicinal Plant Use in Setomaa, Räpina and Vastseliina Parishes, Estonia (1888–1996)" Plants 11, no. 20: 2698. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11202698