Comparison of Lamiaceae medicinal uses in eastern Morocco and eastern Andalusia and in Ibn al-Baytar's Compendium of Simple Medicaments (13th century CE)

摘要: Abstract Ethnopharmacological relevance Transmission of traditional knowledge over time and across culturally historically related territories is an important topic in ethnopharmacology. Here, we contribute to this by analysing data on medicinal uses two neighbouring areas the Western Mediterranean relation a historical text that has been scarcely mentioned studies despite its interest. Aim study This paper discusses sharing popular plants between eastern Morocco Andalusia (Spain), focusing one most useful plant families area: Lamiaceae. Moreover, used classical work Ibn al-Baytar (13th century CE) The Compendium Simple Medicaments Foods as basis contrast possible link information, influence current tradition use both territories. Materials methods For collection, performed ethnobotanical field research part Morocco, recording for In addition, systematically reviewed literature from Andalusia, developing database. We investigated shared included database information al-Baytar's Compendium. To compare similarity diversity data, Jaccard's index. Results Our provided 14 Lamiaceae species with 95 uses, serving treat 13 different pathological groups. Of total recorded 30.5% were found work. There was higher when comparing geographically close Andalucia (64%) than (43%). On other hand, coincidences ones are lower, 28%. Conclusions coincidence high Probably background, recent exchanges, flow, herbal texts have influenced coincidence. sense, there plant-use overlap territories: nearly half currently period Islamic medicine, indicating level preservation usage. suggests codex, which includes number constitutes valuable bibliographical source ancient modern applications plants.