Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Research Article

Plant Ethnoveterinary Practices in Two Pyrenean Territories of Catalonia (Iberian Peninsula) and in Two Areas of the Balearic Islands and Comparison with Ethnobotanical Uses in Human Medicine

General data on the territories studied, data concerning ethnoveterinary and related aspects, and ethnobotanical indexes.


	AE	AT	FO	MA	Total

General Data
Extension (km²)	1358	294	81.2	238	1971.2
Population	118718	4526	9147	31764	164155
Number of total informants	179	60	14	42	295
Number of informants with veterinary reports	46	41	4	13	104
Number of taxa in the flora of the territory	1650⁽¹⁾	1600⁽²⁾	574⁽³⁾	780⁽⁴⁾	—
Total of livestock (includes cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, horses, and poultry)	2345153⁽⁵⁾	28088⁽⁶⁾	3229911⁽⁷⁾		5525414
Ethnoveterinary and other ethnobotanical data
Number of taxa with veterinary uses	49	49	11	17	100
Number of species with veterinary uses	48	47	11	17	96
Number of veterinary use reports	106	146	16	28	306
Number of coincidental human and animal medicine use reports	33	104	4	16	157
Number of local Catalan names of plants with veterinary uses	55	70	11	18	154
Number of botanical families containing plants with veterinary uses	31	27	10	13	41
Number of veterinary reports/number of informants with veterinary reports	2.30	3.56	4.00	2.15	2.94
Number of animal feed taxa	73	21	14	16	—
Number of human medicinal taxa	334	220	92	117	—
Percentage of veterinary uses coincidental with human medicinal ones	30.1	52.2	38.5	50	42.9
Ethnobotanical indexes
Ethnoveterinaricity index (EvI)	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.02	—
Informant consensus factor (F_IC)	0.54	0.68	0.33	0.40	0.67
Average index of cultural importance (CI) calculated per area	0.01	0.05	0.10	0.04	0.04
Average index of cultural importance (CI) calculated for all studied areas	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.01

⁽¹⁾[77]; ⁽²⁾J. Vigo (pers. comm.); ⁽³⁾[79]; ⁽⁴⁾[80]; ⁽⁵⁾[81]; ⁽⁶⁾[81]; ⁽⁷⁾Data for the whole Balearic archipelago [73].