Naji Sulaiman, Dauro M Zocchi, Maria Teresa Borrello, Giulia Mattalia, Luca Antoniazzi, S Elisabeth Berlinghof, Amber Bewick, Ivo Häfliger, Mia Schembs, Luisa Torri, Andrea Pieroni
Susa Valley, located in the Italian Western Alps, has served as a meeting point for cultural, spiritual, and commercial exchange for a long period of history. The valley's role as one of the main connecting routes between south and southwestern Europe resulted in its acquisition of a rich traditional ecological knowledge. However, like other Italian mountainous valleys, this valley has suffered from abandonment and depopulation in the past 50 years. Our study aims to investigate the current ethnobotanical medicinal knowledge in the valley and to compare our findings with a study conducted over 50 years ago in the same area...
December 22, 2023: Plants (Basel, Switzerland)