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A Guide of Medicinal Plants

A presentation by Ovidiu Bojor

The Tranzit Orangerie presents:

A Guide of Medicinal Plants
A presentation by Ovidiu Bojor

Thursday, 24 November 2016, 7 pm

tranzit.ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4

“Researching older works of ethnobotanics, I found at least 5000 popular names for the 3600 species growing in our geographical space. Researchers – botanists and systematicians – from the 17th-19th century were surprised by the botanic knowledge of rural populations and especially of the differentiations they were capable to make between species that were very similar to each other from a botanic point of view.

If many years ago the rural populations, especially in the hilly and mountainous areas, were aware of numerous plants, today few people (and even fewer from the young ones) know how to make a difference between a good chamomile and one without therapeutic properties, or between a good mistletoe and a toxic one."

Ovidiu Bojor is an academician and a phytotherapist, a member of the US Academy of Medical Sciences and of the US Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has led four expeditions in the Himalayas and several others in Afghanistan and in Africa (Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and Botswana), and in 1984 and 1985 he taught specialised courses in Kathmandu and Nepal. In 1985 he led and sponsored the first Romanian-Nepalese expedition to the Himalayas, attempting to conquer the Gurja Himal peak, of 7165 m, by using a completely new route. He has worked as an Industrial Development expert for the United Nations and is a member of the US National Geographic Society. He has published, as author or co-author, over 200 scientific works; been an author to over 30 treatises and scientific books and holder of over 40 patents, most of them applied in research and production; two of his latest patents have received gold and silver medals at international invention salons.

Part of the „/ natural” programme developed by tranzit.ro/ București since 2014.