The Effect of Covid-19 on medicinal and aromatic plants use: The case of Turkey

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dc.authorid0000-0002-4215-920X
dc.authorid0000-0002-1811-5143
dc.authorid0000-0003-0824-1426
dc.contributor.authorKavak, Seydi Ahmet
dc.contributor.authorErguel, Baris
dc.contributor.authorUgurlu, Emin
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-12T21:05:28Z
dc.date.available2026-02-12T21:05:28Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.departmentBursa Teknik Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractCovid-19, one of the coronaviruses, emerged in Wuhan, China, due to zoonotic infection towards the end of December 2019. According to WHO data, Covid-19 has been present among 267.865.289 people in 222 countries, causing death for 5.285.888 (December 12, 2021). Furthermore, these figures are increasing every day. In Turkey, 8.984.407 people have been infected thus far, and 78.602 have died (December 12, 2021). The following questions were investigated in this study: Does Covid-19 affect the use of medicinal and aromatic plants? If it does, what are the changes? What types of herbs are used and in which ways are they used? Who advises people to use these herbs? According to the results, 113 taxa belonging to 61 families and 105 genera were used by the participants at the genus, species and subspecies levels. Herbs that were widely used are Thymus spp., Tilia spp., Salvia spp., Zingiber officinale Roscoe, Mentha spp., Curcuma longa L., Rosa canina L., Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze, Lavandula spp., Matricaria spp., respectively. There was a positive and moderate-level relationship between medicinal and aromatic plants before and after COVID-19 and another positive and moderate-level relationship between the frequencies of using medicinal and aromatic plants before and after the pandemic. The relationships were significant for both questionnaire items. Moreover, there was a significant difference between the frequency of use of medicinal and aromatic plants before and after Covid-19.
dc.identifier.doi10.5209/mbot.77842
dc.identifier.issn2603-9109
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85153084467
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.5209/mbot.77842
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12885/6958
dc.identifier.volume44
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000933573300003
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniv Complutense Madrid, Servicio Publicaciones
dc.relation.ispartofMediterranean Botany
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20260212
dc.subjectCoronavirus
dc.subjectCovid-19
dc.subjectdrug
dc.subjectherb
dc.subjectMedicinal and aromatic plants
dc.titleThe Effect of Covid-19 on medicinal and aromatic plants use: The case of Turkey
dc.typeArticle

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