From folk medicine

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In folk records in Turkey, the complaint plants are most often used for is hemorrhoids (367 different plants), followed by stomach ache. For the skin, wound healing is far ahead in first place: 467 plants, 1,093 records. These numbers do not show effectiveness; they show how common the complaint is.

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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