Medical Ethnobotany in Europe: From Field Ethnography to a More Culturally Sensitive Evidence-Based CAM?

Table 1

Criteria considered for the inclusion or exclusion of studies in our analysis of medical field ethnobotany in Europe.

Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Medical ethnobotanical field studies	Meta-analyses were excluded if based on the data collected by others
Indexed in Scopus from 1992–2012	Works conducted on a single species or group of related species
Reports must provide precise details about the folk medicinal uses of plants	Field market surveys (unless the study involves folk-studies/TK of local or small-scale herb gathering and trade)
Works written in English (or have an English abstract)	Reports on large-scale trade of medicinal plants (i.e., commodities studies)