ABSTRACT

In this study, 92 wild plant taxa belonging to 41 families that are used as medicine are documented in Andırın (Kahramanmaraş). The most encountered medicinal plant families were Labiatae (16 taxa), Compositae (15 taxa), Rosaceae (6 taxa), Liliaceae (4 taxa); the most common preparations were infusion and decoction. These folk medicinal plants are mostly used for treatment of kidney stones, colds and flu, analgesic, for skin diseases, cough and diabetes diseases. All settlements in Andırın township (52 villages) were visited during the field works. The plants that collected with folk medicinal plant user were identified and prepared voucher specimens were kept in the Herbarium of Istanbul University Faculty of Pharmacy (ISTE).