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Local ecological knowledge and folk medicine in historical Estonia, Livonia, Courland, and Galicia, 1805-1905

  • 1. Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Mestre, Venezia VE, Via Torino, 155, 30170, Italy
  • 2. University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo CN, Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, 9, 12042, Italy

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Background: Historical ethnobotanical data can provide valuable information about past human-nature relationships as well as serve as a basis for diachronic analysis. This data note aims to present a dataset which documented medicinal plant uses, mentioned in a selection of German-language sources from the 19 th century covering the historical regions of Estonia, Livonia, Courland, and Galicia.

Methods: Data was mainly obtained by systematic manual search in various relevant historical German-language works focused on the medicinal use of plants. Data about plant and non-plant constituents, their usage, the mode of administration, used plant parts, and their German and local names was extracted and collected into a database in the form of Use Reports.

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