ABSTRACT

This paper reports the results of an ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants used in Isperih district (Razgrad-Bulgaria). Sixty-eight plant species belonging to 32 families, 62 genera and among them 44 species were wild and 24 species were cultivated plants. Most used families were Labiatae, Rosaceae, Compositae and the most used plants were Achillea millefolium subsp. patmonica, Hypericum peiforatum, Pimis sylvestris, Urtica dioica, Plantago major, Calendula officinalis, Plantago lanceolata, Melissa officinalis, Robinia pseudoacacia, Artnoracia rusticana, Geranium macrorrhizwn, Malva sylvestris. A total of 62 medicinal uses were obtained. 180 vernacular names of medicinal plants were reported. Ailments such as hypertension, cold and influenza, stomach diseases and wounds are mostly treated with the medicinal plants.