Ethnographic investigations in the villages of the Tatev community in southern Armenia reveal the positive attitude of the local community toward “official” sources (e.g., printed books, administrative officials, and people of higher education) on herbal medicine and the belittling of their own traditional ethnobotanical knowledge. Although this may be a global phenomenon, we observe and discuss particular reasons specific to the post-Soviet context as conditioned by politics and propaganda. Nowadays, the local population gather and use a minimum of forty wild plants (ethnotaxa) mostly for nutritional, medicinal, and aromatic (tea and flavoring) purposes. Biological species of the traditionally used medicinal plants of the Tatev community were identified, and preparation methods and purposes of the herbal remedies were recorded. The most frequently and traditionally used medicinal plants of the Tatev community belong to these genera: Mentha, Thymus, Ziziphora, Hypericum, Knautia, Arctium, Plantago, Tanacetum, Rosa, and Sambucus.

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Tatev（亚美尼亚）的植物药用知识和“官方”资源

在亚美尼亚南部Tatev社区的村庄中的人种学调查表明，当地社区对草药的“官方”来源（例如印刷书籍，行政官员和高等教育人员）持积极态度，并贬低了他们自己的传统民族植物学知识。尽管这可能是全球现象，但我们观察并讨论了政治和宣传所限制的特定于后苏联语境的特殊原因。如今，当地居民收集和使用至少四十种野生植物（ethnotaxa），主要用于营养，药用和芳香（茶和调味料）目的。确定了Tatev社区传统使用的药用植物的生物种类，并记录了中草药的制备方法和目的。