Healing knowledge of the Pinzgauer

The healing knowledge of the Pinzgauers has been a UNESCO entry for intangible cultural heritage in Austria since 2010 . It includes a project to take stock of traditional medicine in the Pinzgau , Land Salzburg .

background

The traditional healing knowledge and its practical application was collected for the Pinzgau area in 2005 and documented in writing. There is a list of over 100 regional remedies and healing methods and their indications and effects . These are partly locally occurring medicinal plants , animal products and natural substances and resources , or available preparations , for example pitch , arnica or St. John's wort, partly about the use of other drugs. In a research project in 2010, the orally traditional folk medicine home remedies on a plant basis were compared with the standard works of the European Medicines Commission ESCOP and the German Commission E , and thus scientifically processed pharmacognostically and also in terms of ethnomedicine .

In parallel to the inventory, the remedies were adapted to modern requirements for hygiene , shelf life and product safety in order to enable them to be used in accordance with medical law .

The Austrian UNESCO Commission included this wealth of experience as the healing knowledge of the Pinzgau residents in March 2010 in the register of the national intangible cultural heritage in Austria , in the section on knowledge and practices in dealing with nature. The background to this commitment by UNESCO to traditional Austrian medicine is on the one hand the Directive 2004/24 / EC on naturopathic products, which in 2011 made market access for complementary medicinal products considerably easier, whereby the risk was seen that medicinal products "without equivalent quality controls into the gray area between cosmetics , Dietary supplements and foods are slipping ”, but also to dispel reservations about the art of healing as a traditional cultural asset that came under the reputation of“ poor people's medicine ”after the Second World War. At the same time, the Austrian Ministry of Health  (BMG) created the possibility of entering traditional Austrian medicine in the Austrian Pharmacopoeia  (ÖAB). In addition, it is also intended to prevent the appropriation of trademarks and the patenting of medicinal plants that have been used since ancient times as gene sequencing by commercial companies with a legally binding designation as common property.

The award was made on the initiative of the TEH naturwerke association in Unken , which is committed to the contemporary dissemination, mediation, practical application and marketing of regional healing practices. He also looks after some of the area's private cottage gardens , which are accessible as show gardens.

See also

• Traditional European Medicine
• Pharmacy's own house specialties

literature

• Elfriede Grabner: Basics of an East Alpine folk medicine. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1985.
• Karin Buchart: Traditional biogenic medicine in Pinzgau. Dissertation, Focus Area BioScience and Health , University of Salzburg, 2010.

Web links

• TEH association (teh.at)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Healing knowledge of the Pinzgau residents. Austrian Commission for UNESCO: List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Austria. immaterielleskulturerbe.unesco.at (accessed March 31, 2016).
2. ↑ Traditional biogenic medicines in Pinzgau as the scientific basis of the TEH academy. teh.at → TEH Academy , accessed March 31, 2016;
   see reference book type 2010.
3. ↑ Maria Walcher: What chance does the cultural heritage offer to guarantee the preservation of traditional healing methods? Austrian UNESCO Commission / National Agency for Intangible Cultural Heritage, undated (accessed March 31, 2016).
4. ^ Knowledge gathered from folk medicine in danger. In: Der Standard online, October 29, 2007.
5. ↑ Folk medicine: Orally transmitted knowledge. ORF Wissen , July 4, 2006.
6. ↑ TEH Gardens ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , teh.at, accessed March 31, 2016.