Title | Author | Year of publication | Sources (and methodology) | Trust level in terms of plant (criterion 1+ criterion2) and disease identification | Reference |
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1) “Botanica Poporană Română” (engl. Romanian Folk Botany) | Simion Florea Marian | 2008, 2010 (post-mortem publication; data collected during 1867-1907) | Fieldwork (observational method, collection of plant voucher specimens); literature (review) | 5 (2+3) (plants) 3 (diseases) | |
2) “Istoria naturală medicală a poporului român” (engl. Natural medical history of Romanian people) | Nicolae Leon | 1903 | Fieldwork (observational method, identification of plants based on collection of voucher specimens) | 6 (3+3) (plants) 4 (diseases) | [84] |
3) “Monografia comunei Răşinariu” (engl. Monography of Răşinariu village) | Victor Păcală | 1915 | Fieldwork (ethnographic method- participant observation, key informant interviewing; complete inventory of local flora) | 4 (1+3) (plants) 2 (diseases) | [9] |
4) “Contribuţiuni la etnografia medicală a Olteniei” (engl. Contribution to the medical ethnography of Oltenia) | Charles Laugier | 1925 | Fieldwork (observational method) | 4 (1+3) (plants) 4 (diseases) | [82] |
5) “Boli, leacuri şi plante de leac cunoscute de ţărănimea română” (engl. Diseases, folk remedies and plants known by Romanian villagers) | George Bujorean | 1936 | Fieldwork (observational method); literature (review) | 6 (3+3) (plants) 4 (diseases) | [74] |
6) “Plantele medicinale şi medicina populară la Niscani” (Engl. Medicinal plants and folk medicine at Niscani) | Alexei A. Arvat (1890-?), | 1937 | Fieldwork (observational method, key informant interviewing, inventory of ethnobotanical and ethnographic data, collection of plant voucher specimens) | 6(3+3) (plants) 4 (diseases) | [80] |
7) “Enciclopedia de Etnobotanică Românească” (engl. Encyclopedia of Romanian Ethnobotany) | Valer Butura | 1979 | Literature (review) | 6 (3+3) (plants) 4 (diseases) | [75] |
8) “Plante cunoscute şi întrebuinţate de românii din Ardeal. Note etnobotanice” (engl. Plants known and used by Romanians in Ardeal. Ethnobotanical notes) | Valer Butura | 1935 | Fieldwork (observational method) | 6 (3+3) (plants) 3 (diseases) | [83] |
9) “Plante cunoscute şi întrebuinţate de românii din Transilvania” (engl. Plants known and used by Romanians in Transilvania) | Valer Butura | 1936 | Fieldwork (observational method) | 6 (3+3) (plants) 4 (diseases) | [79] |
10) “Plante cunoscute şi întrebuinţate de locuitorii câtorva sate româneşti (Ethnobotanische mitteilungen aus Rumanien)” (engl. Plants known and used by inhabitans of few Romanian villages) | Valer Butura | 1938 | Fieldwork (observational method) | 6(3+3) (plants) 4 (diseases) | [78] |
8) “Florile bune de leac” (engl. Flowers good for healing) | George Ulieru | 1929 | Medical literature essay | 2 (1+1) (plants) 4 (diseases) | [88] |
9) “Noutati etnobotanice româneşti” (engl. Romanian ethnobotanical novelties) | Alexandru Borza | 1936 | Fieldwork (observational method, collection of plant voucher specimens) | 6 (3+3) (plants) 3 (diseases) | [81] |
10) “Studii de etnobotanică în comuna Poiana Cristei, jud. Vrancea” (engl. Ethnobotanical studies in Poiana Cristei village, Vrancea county) | Ana Condrea | 1991 | Fieldwork (observational method, old informant interviewing) | 6 (3+3) (plants) 4 (diseases) | [87] |
11) “Valea Sebeşului. Monografie Etnofolclorică, vol.II. Folclor” (engl. Sebeş valley. Ethnofolklorical monography, vol. II, Folklor) | Gheorghe Pavelescu | 2004 (data collected in 1934-1939, and enriched in 1971) | Fieldwork (observational method, informant interviewing) | 5 (3+2) (plants) 2 (diseases) | [10] |
12) “Medicina populară din Basarabia de la sfârșitul secolului al XIX-lea – începutul secolului al XX-lea. Aspecte istorico-etnografice” (engl. Folk medicine from Basarabia at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries. Historical-ethnographical aspects) | Natalia Gradinaru | 2015 (data collected during 2003-2014; average age of informants 71.5 years) | Fieldwork (observational method, questionnaires, simulation- to reveal “professional secrets”, case study); literature (review of field studies available in the Archives of the Institute of the Cultural Heritage, Chişinău ) | 6(3+3) (plants) 4 (diseases) | [11] |