Introduction

There is an experienced to appear a growing interest in last decades for the research and studying of ethnobotany, ethno medicine and of ethnopharmacology. The main reason of this, that it gets a growing urgency and importance at same time to collect, evaluate and utilize all the knowledge and experience implicated by the different nations regarding the curing and healing with natural materials (medicinal plants, funguses, substances of mineral and animal origin). There is particularly a keen necessity for the collecting, documenting of the traditional knowledge and methods and their evaluating upon different points and the same of the medicines prepared from the traditional medicinal plants and substances being applicable in a wide range in those countries and communities in which the modern medicines and up-to-date therapeutic methods and technologies are not available for the great public.

The urgency and importance of the collecting of this experience and knowledge is also contributed by the fact, that the knowledge of most healer goes to their grave when they die without that they would gave it long to the successors. And if so, together with the leave of these healers of huge knowledge and experience we will loose the possibility of getting acquainted with at presence still existing, or at least known, even if already not applied, traditional methods and substances, materials. And if so we will also loose the possibility to collect and get data how to use and apply the traditional, natural methods, medicinal plants, substances, etc for curing and for nutrition and for other purposes as well.

The main target of this home page is to point out for all the treasuries and values included in all of the data of the plant knowledge collected in the Carpathian Basin and in Moldavia regarding the ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological research concerning the traditional application of medicinal plants. This activity also generate an opportunity to make international contact to change information and to create cooperation for mutual research and for co-working.

It gave me a strong incitement to start this website all the help I got from the following societies and institutes (mainly with sending me scientific papers, reviewes and newsletters, and sponsoring my participation in conferences): European Society of Ethnopharmacology, Societé Française d'Ethnopharmacologie, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin e.V. - AGEM and the Department of Ethnomedicine, University of Vienna.

Peter Babulka (November 3rd, 2007)

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