Use of cultivated plants and non-plant remedies for human and animal home-medication in Liubań district, Belarus.
Renata SõukandYanina HrynevichJulia PrakofjewaTatsiana ValodzinaIryna VasilyevaJury PaciupaAliaksandra ShrubokAliaksei HlushkoYana KnurevaYulia LitvinavaSiarhei VyskvarkaHanna SilivonchykAlena PaulavaMare KõivaRaivo KallePublished in: Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine (2017)
Differences between remedy groups were pronounced, indicating that in domestic human medicine cultivated plants and non-plant remedies are either remarkably less important than wild ones or not considered worth talking about. In ethnoveterinary medicine non-plant remedies are almost equally important as wild plants, while cultivated plants are the least used. People in study area seem to still more often rely on, or are more willing to talk to strangers about, wild plants, as promoted by both official medicine and popular literature.