Przypadkowy dobór ziół i słaba wiedza na temat roślin albo dlaczego różnymi roślinami odganiano te same choroby w słowiańskim lecznictwie ludowym
Random Selection of Herbs and Weak Knowledge of Plants or Why Different Plants Were Used to Treat the Same Diseases in Slavic Folk Medicine

Summary/Abstract: Krystyna Szczesniak’s monograph entitled The World of Zamova as the World of Plants on the Border of Eastern and Western Slavic Lands (Gdańsk: Gdańsk University Press 2022, p. 884) is a deepening of the theme presented in 2008 in the study entitled The World of Plants as the World of People on the border of Eastern and Western Slavic Lands (Gdańsk: Gdańsk University Press, p. 410). The purpose of K. Szczesniak’s publication was a comprehensive collection of information on the use of plants in folk medicine, comparing it with official medicine and noting the verbal species accompanying folk medicine with specific ritual plants. The monograph complements the existing research on folk medicine in the Eastern and Western Slavic regions and the so-called zamova. The reviewed work deserves the attention of not only researchers of Slavic folk culture (folklorists, ethnolinguists), but also botanists and phytotherapists.

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