Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Plants Used in Central Macedonia, Greece

Table 3

Results of quantitative analysis for the most relevant species (≥ 8 citations). Disease categories with max FL are reported in bold.

	N informants citing	Total N citations	Cardiovascular diseases	Gastrointestinal diseases	Genitourinary diseases	Metabolic diseases	Muscular-skeletal diseases	Nervous-sensorial diseases	Respiratory diseases	Skin diseases	Max FL
Hypericum perforatum L.	47	66		15			4	2	1	44	67
Matricaria chamomilla L.	29	34		11	4			14	2	3	41
Sideritis scardica Griseb.	30	30							30		100
Tilia platyphyllos Scop.	23	27		4				1	22		81
Sambucus nigra L.	24	24							20	4	83
Rosa canina L.	16	20			1	17	2				85
Urtica dioica L.	11	19			5	8	4			2	42
Mentha spicata L.	13	18	5	8		5					44
Achillea millefolium L.	12	17			10				5	2	59
Momordica charantia L.	16	17		1						16	94
Malva silvestris L.	14	16		1		1			14		88
Crataegus monogyna Jacq.	12	13	13								100
Dactylorhiza sp.	13	13							13		100
Linum usitatissimum L.	9	13		3					9	1	69
Paliurus spina-christi Mill.	11	11			10	1					91
Equisetum arvense L.	7	10			5		5				50
Plantago media L.	9	10			2					8	80
Verbascum longifolium Ten.	8	10		2	2				6		60
Arctium lappa L.	5	8					5			3	63
Micromeria juliana (L.) Rchb.	7	8			8						100
Origanum majorana L.	8	8		7	1						88
Satureja montana L. subsp. macedonica (Formanek) Baden	8	8				1		3	4		50