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Table 2 Comparison of URs (%) for plant parts used, preparations, and applications in Georgia and in Turkeya

From: Medicinal ethnobotany of wild plants: a cross-cultural comparison around Georgia-Turkey border, the Western Lesser Caucasus

Plant parts used

UR (%)

UR (%)

Preparations

UR (%)

UR (%)

Applications

UR (%)

UR (%)

Geo

Tur

Geo

Tur

Geo

Tur

Leaves

26.66%

25.83%

Infusion in water/milk/votka/oil/whey/sugar

47.99%

32.33%

Drink

49.41%

37.01%

Aerial parts with flowers

17.77%

19.49%

Decoction in water/milk/oil

22.63%

29.91%

Plaster

15.76%

22.51%

Fruits

13.98%

10.27%

Fresh or mixed with honey/olive/salt/another plant/beewax/spores/votka/yoghurt/resin

18.25%

23.72%

Bath

15.05%

20.54%

Aerial parts

11.26%

11.78%

Macerated

4.50%

7.70%

Eat

11.02%

11.78%

Flowers

9.36%

8.46%

Sweet dishes

2.37%

1.21%

Gargle

4.38%

1.06%

Roots/bulbs

5.33%

5.89%

Juice (fresh, vinegar)

1.54%

0.60%

Chew

1.90%

3.02%

Resin

3.08%

7.10%

Warmed on stove

1.18%

1.06%

Inhalation

1.07%

2.42%

Seeds

1.54%

4.38%

Burned

0.24%

1.96%

Embrocation

0.83%

0.60%

Entire plant

3.44%

1.36%

Ritual

0.71%

0.45%

Headbands

0.24%

0.45%

Branches

1.42%

2.57%

Dried and powdered

0.12%

0.76%

Ritual

0.12%

0.45%

Young seed cones

1.42%

0.76%

As vegetable (pickle, soup)

0.47%

0.30%

Fumigate

–

0.15%

Pollen cones

1.66%

0.15%

   

Tamp

0.12%

–

Outer barks

1.54%

–

   

Beating of skin

0.12%

–

Sap

0.47%

0.76%

      

Young seed cones and pollen cones

0.71%

–

      

Inner barks

0.24%

0.30%

      

Pericarp/husk

–

0.45%

      

Aerial roots

–

0.30%

      

Heartwood

0.12%

–

      

Receptacles

–

0.15%

      
  1. aNote that the information (words) in each row do not match with each other (see in Table 2 for the preparation and application of each plant part). Information was ranked in accordance of importance based on mean UR (%) values of the countries