title: [The relation between the collecting of wild-growing medicinal plants and the protection of nature in Poland].
abstract: The paper presents a rather little known problem connected with the history of Polish herbalism, namely the collecting of medicinal plants growing in the wild during World War One. The plants were collected by members of the poorest and least educated social groups, who had little knowledge about the plants they collected and were interested mainly in easy gain. This led to the depletion of many stands of medicinal plants. Scientists, like Wladyslaw Szafer, supported the collecting of medicinal plants at first, but once they realised its wasteful effects, they began to make efforts to protect the natural resources of medicinal plants. In the 1930s the collecting of plants growing in the wild was being gradually replaced by the cultivation of such plants. At the same time, herb collectors were being registered and trained. The 1934 act on the protection of nature also contributed to preserving medicinal plants in the wild.
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Magowska
mesh_terms: D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010946:Plants, Medicinal; D011044:Poland
vernacular_title: Z historii zielarstwa w okresie miedzywojennym. Relacje z ochrona przyrody.