Table 3 A Important plant usages with preparation and application methods in Midyat 724. B Endemic plants usages in Midyat
From: An ethnobotanical study in Midyat (Turkey), a city on the silk road where cultures meet
Plant scientific name | Aims of plant usage | Preparation and application |
|---|---|---|
A | ||
Alcea setosa | Cough and flu | A handful of dry flowers are boiled and drunk during the sickness. |
Hair care dye | The dried fruits are beaten or the flowers applied to wet hair. | |
Wound healing | The seeds crushed and applied to the wounds to completely cover it to extract the inflammation. | |
Labor pain | A handful of flowers of plant mixed with Mentha and boiled. | |
Alcea striata subsp. striata | Cough and flu | During flu, the flowers of the plant are boiled and brewed as herbal tea. |
Wound healing | The crushed seeds used to cover the wound area completely in order to extract the inflammation. | |
Anthemis cotula | Stomach pain | Leaves of plant are boiled and used as an herbal tea to treat cold, bronchitis, flu, and stomachache. |
Flu and cold | Herbal tea brewed for cold and flu treatments. | |
Crupina crupinastrum | Broom | Aerial parts and branches used for making broom. |
Malva neglecta | Food | Fresh aerial parts collected and boiled in water and then fried in oil and mixed with eggs. |
Stomachache | A couple of fresh leaves used in the morning on an empty stomach. | |
Toys | Children use their fruit seeds as a toy like marbles. | |
Against weakness | When people are critically weak, they have the fresh leaves by adding salt and boiling them. The brew is taken until the patient feels better. | |
Labor pain, kidney diseases | Pregnant used by boiling the leaves of the plant. For kidney stones used by boiling the leaves and drinking it like an herbal tea. | |
Matricaria aurea | Cough, flu, bronchial, stomach cure, cardialgia | The plant is boiled and drunk for treatment. |
Food | After the fruit and leaves are washed, they are consumed as a food. | |
Fragrance | The whole plants hang on the walls in the entrance of houses to give a good smell. | |
Papaver rhoeas | Food | Fresh young leaves used by boiling and frying for eating. Their flower is added to boiled pounded wheat (bulgur pilav). |
Fodder | For feeding animals; dry and fresh plants used. | |
Salvia multicaulis | Wound healing | After boiling, it is applied to wounds by mixing it with vetch; it is applied at night and kept bandaged until morning. |
Flu and coughs | It is mixed with Imtabso (Papaver) and boiled with some water and is taken. | |
Labor pain | The aerial part of plant used as an herbal tea; it is brewed and filtered. People drink it for treatment of labor pain. | |
Anti-inflammatory | It is used to treat wounds such as warts and boils; to take out the inflammation, the Plant is boiled and applied on hands at night, kept covered until morning. | |
Antidote | It is used when a scorpion bites; plants boiled and the water applied to the bite region and held with bandages. | |
Scandix stellata | Food | The leaves of plant fried and cooked with oil. |
Teucrium polium | Stomachache | It is brewed for use against stomach pain for children, adults and sometimes for animals. |
Thymbra sintenisii | Labor pain | Plant used as an herbal tea. It is brewed adding lemon peel and used for labor pain. |
Spice | Used as spice by adding it to salads and dishes. | |
Bread preparation | It is also used in preparation of bread; it is mixed with almond and watermelon peel, then fried in olive oil and cooked in a tandoor (oven consisting of a clay-lined large pit). | |
Vicia pannonica subsp. striata | Food | The fresh fruit consumed by people by peeling. |
Fodder | For feeding animals whole fruits are used fresh or dried. | |
Centaurea rigida | Antidote | It is used when a scorpion or a snake bites; plant is boiled and the water applied to the bitten region. The treatment continues until healed. |
Euphorbia craspedia | Molasses preparation | The aerial part of plant is used while boiling the molasses; the plant prevents overflow. The whole plant covers the pan for that purpose. |
B | ||
Alkanna trichophila var. mardinensis | Latex | Latex of flower is used to suck for children. |
Centaurea kurdica | Kidney disease | The fruit of plant is used after boiling in water; used as a drink. |
Centaurea stapfiana | Fodder | Dried or fresh aerial part of plant is used for feeding animals intensively in the region. |
Sideritis libanotica subsp. linearis | Herbal tea | The plant is used for brewing and drinking in cold weather. |
Broom | Whole plant used as a broom. | |