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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2021

A Comparison Study on Traditional Mixtures of Herbal Teas Used in Eastern Mediterranean Area.

Concepción Obón, Diego Rivera, Elena Fonollá, Francisco Alcaraz, Latifa Attieh

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 authors.

Concepción ObónDepartamento de Biología Aplicada, EPSO, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Orihuela, Spain.
Diego RiveraDepartamento de Biología Vegetal, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
Elena FonolláDepartamento de Biología Vegetal, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
Francisco AlcarazDepartamento de Biología Vegetal, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
Latifa AttiehInternational School of Business (ISB), Modern University for Business and Science (MUBS), Beirut, Lebanon.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multipurpose herbal teas with numerous ingredients, in which flowers are the main component, are common in the traditional medicine and pharmacy of Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean countries. In this study, we combine ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology field work techniques and botany and pharmacognosy laboratory methods for the study of traditional herbal mixtures with flowers, we identify their botanical ingredients and record the local medicinal uses of these mixtures, in Greece, Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Turkey. These, and their industrial versions, are analyzed, using morphological and multivariate analysis techniques in order to determine marker species, relevant patterns of combination and local styles. The medicinal properties attributed to the different flowers are discussed in relation with their role in the mixtures. These blends are consumed for their relaxing, digestive, and anti-infective properties. These mixtures are not consumed as a treatment when one is sick but rather to avoid getting sick, as a preventive measure. The formulations can reach forty ingredients (

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ethnobotanyethnopharmacologypharmacognosypharmacyphytotherapytraditional medicineunani

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