From folk medicine

The 60 names of the dog rose

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About 60 local names are recorded in Turkey for kuşburnu (dog rose): itburnu, köpek gülü, it gülü, öküzgötü, şilan, gülburnu, deligül, gelin göbeği, gülbubusu, dikenbaşı… The same plant, a different name in each region. What is it called where you live?

Source: Bintuğ Öztürk (yürütücü) ve ark., “Türkiye’nin Etnobotanik Veritabanı”, Ege Üniversitesi BAP 13-ECZ-024 sonuç raporu, Şubat 2020 (Öztürk et al., Türkiye’nin Etnobotanik Veritabanı, 2020). This is a folk record, not a treatment recommendation.

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