J Ethnopharmacol. 2000 Feb; 69(2): 165-72.

Ethnobotanical inventory of medicinal plants in Bulgaria.

Ivancheva S, Stantcheva B.

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Sofia. svi@iph.bio.bas.bg

The paper reports on 73 medicinal plants of 30 families, traditionally used in Bulgarian phytotherapy. Some of the plants are applied in practice for the treatment of cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, respiratory, urogenital and other disorders. The popular plants used for treatment are growing in 20 forested regions in Bulgaria.