Important medicinal and aromatic plants in Southeast Europe and ...
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MAPs of the Republic of Macedonia (3)<br />
The most wide-spread MAPs: at the moment no available scientific data.<br />
The most commonly used <strong>in</strong> folk<br />
medic<strong>in</strong>e:<br />
- Hypericum, Vacc<strong>in</strong>ium, Juniperus,<br />
Plantago, Matricaria, Crataegus,<br />
Rosa can<strong>in</strong>a, Urtica, Calendula,<br />
Sideritis etc.<br />
Medic<strong>in</strong>al <strong>and</strong> <strong>aromatic</strong> <strong>plants</strong> (MAPs) <strong>and</strong><br />
their parts, are used:<br />
• <strong>medic<strong>in</strong>al</strong>ly,<br />
• for cosmetics,<br />
• as herbal teas,<br />
• as species,<br />
• <strong>in</strong> liquers <strong>and</strong> bitters,<br />
• as <strong>in</strong>secticides <strong>and</strong> fungicides,<br />
• <strong>and</strong> <strong>in</strong> domestic clean<strong>in</strong>g products.<br />
Up to 95 % of the total plant material used <strong>in</strong> pharmaceutical <strong>in</strong>dustry is from<br />
wild orig<strong>in</strong>. 80 % of it orig<strong>in</strong>ates from Macedonia.<br />
Only 20% of <strong>medic<strong>in</strong>al</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>aromatic</strong> <strong>plants</strong> are imported <strong>in</strong> Macedonia.<br />
Gjoshe Stefkov, Svetlana Kulevanova, Medic<strong>in</strong>al <strong>and</strong> <strong>aromatic</strong> <strong>plants</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Europe</strong> <strong>and</strong> Macedonia,<br />
Maced. pharm. bul., 49, 150-151, 2003
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