Overview of Dioscorides’ recipes in Croatian books of folk recipes

Scientific paper - Original scientific paper

• Author: Suzana Inić
• Author: Petra Gašparac
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry; (Department of analytical chemistry)
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE; Pharmacy; Pharmacy

Abstract (english)

The aim of this paper is to present an overview of Dioscorides’ recipes from his work De materia medica which
are found in Croatian folk medicine preserved in books of folk recipes called ljekaruše. The particularities of five
published and analysed Croatian books of folk recipes from the 17th and 18th century are examined. Recipes
with drugs of herbal and animal origin, which are most often mentioned in Croatian books of folk recipes, and
which were available in folk medicine at the time, are compared with those from Dioscorides’ work. Many herbal
drugs described in books of folk recipes are today used in contemporary phytotherapy, and modern biomedical
research reveals new bioactive substances and confirms new and potential biological activities in medicinal
plants used in folk medicine, which is the basis for further study of De materia medica by Dioscorides and
ethnomedicinal collections. Croatian books of folk recipes are a valuable resource for multidisciplinary study,
including for medicinal and pharmaceutical historians, philologists and ethnologists.

• Keywords (english): Dioscorides; materia medica; Croatian books of folk recipes; ljekaruše
• Language: english
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Original scientific paper
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review - international
• Publication version: Published version
• Journal title: Die Pharmazie
• Numbering: vol. 77, no. 7-9, pp. 270-277
• p-ISSN: 0031-7144
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:163:388742
• Publication: 2022
• Type of resource: Text
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2022-11-07 11:27:11