o:6866 TRADITIONAL MEDICINAL USE OF PLANTS FROM THE GENUS CRATAEGUS IN THE PIROT DISTRICT(SERBIA) TRADICIONALNA LEKOVITA UPOTREBA BILJAKA IZ RODA CRATAEGUS U PIROTSKOM OKRUGU (SRBIJA) en sr The informants in the rural areas of the Pirot District were surveyed on the knowledge and use of medicinal plants. The plants from the genus Crataegus were mentioned by 119 respondents. C. laevigata was mentioned against high blood pressure. C. monogyna was mentioned for the following applications: against high blood pressure, for the heart, improving heart rate, for circulation, and against sclerosis. C. pentagyna was mentioned against high blood pressure, for the heart, improving heart rate, strengthening the heart, against cardiac diseases, for circulation, immune system improvement, against the common cold, cough, and diabetes, for disease prevention (coffee replacement), as hot drink, and against kidney and bladder diseases. The medicinal uses, considered novelties in our research, were noted and stressed because they were not mentioned in previously published ethnobotanical papers on the Balkans. Ruralno stanovništvo Pirotskog okruga anketirano je o poznavanju i korišćenju lekovitih biljaka.. Vrste iz roda Crataegus su pomenute od strane 119 ispitanika. C. laevigata je pomenuta protiv visokog krvnog pritiska. C. monogyna je pomenuta za sledeće primene: protiv visokog krvnog pritiska, za srce, za regulaciju otkucaja srca, za cirkulaciju i protiv skleroze. C. pentagyna je pomenuta protiv visokog krvnog pritiska, za srce, poboljšanje rada srca, jačanje srca, protiv srčanih bolesti, za cirkulaciju, poboljšanje imuniteta, protiv prehlade, kašlja, dijabetesa, za prevenciju bolesti (zamena za kafu), kao topli napitak, i protiv bolesti bubrega i bešike. Zabeležene su lekovite upotrebe, koje se mogu smatrati novinama u našem istraživanju, jer nisu pominjane u ranije objavljenim etnobotaničkim radovima o Balkanu. Crataegus laevigata, Crataegus monogyna, Crataegus pentagyna, medicinal use, Pirot District Crataegus laevigata, Crataegus monogyna, Crataegus pentagyna, lekovita upotreba, Pirotski okrug 1552101 1821-1046 1552099 10.5937/SustFor2490161M 2025-01-13T22:27:30.545Z 44 yes 46 Marija S. Marković 0000-0002-6070-6844 46 Biljana M. Nikolić 0000-0002-2436-8294 46 Dejan S. Pljevljakušić 46 Ljubinko B. Rakonjac 0000-0002-8736-6771 46 Sonja Z. Braunović 0000-0002-1387-6955 46 Filip A. Jovanović 0000-0002-4143-2497 46 Vesna P. Stankov-Jovanović application/pdf 889688 https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:6866 no yes 16 70 92000001 2024 71A07 Sustainable Forestry: Collection 89-90 161 176 Институт за шумарство, Београд, Србија 2024