the relationship between plants used to sustain finches (fringillidae) and uses for human medicine in southeast spain植物之间的关系维持雀(雀科),并使用用于人类医学西班牙东南部.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Volume 2012, Article ID 360913, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2012/360913 Research Article The Relationship between Plants Used to Sustain Finches (Fringillidae) and Uses for Human Medicine in Southeast Spain 1 ´ 2, 3 2, 3 Antonio Belda, Victoriano Peiro, and Eduardo Seva 1 Departamento Ciencias de la Tierra y del Medio Ambiente, Universidad de Alicante, Campus San Vicente, Apartado 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain 2 Departamento de Ecologıa, Universidad de Alicante, Campus San Vicente, Apartado 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain ´ 3 IMEM, Universidad de Alicante, Campus San Vicente, Apartado 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain Correspondence should be addressed to Antonio Belda, antonio.belda@ua.es Received 29 December 2011; Revised 13 February 2012; Accepted 14 February 2012 Academic Editor: Andrea Pieroni Copyright © 2012 Antonio Belda et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We analyzed plants that are traditionally used by wild bird hunters and breeders to capture and promote captive breeding of Fringillidae (finches or songbirds) in the province of Alicante, Spain. The majority of plants used in songbird breeding have medicinal properties in traditional human medicine (48 different uses); thus, another main goal was to show their relationships with human medical uses. We compiled a list of 97 plant species from 31 botanical families that are used to attract finches and identified 11 different use categories