A medico-ethnobotanical survey was conducted among the Senegalese migrant communities of Turin (Piedmont, NW Italy) and\r\ntheir peers living in Adeane (Casamance, Southern Senegal), both among healers and laypeople. Through 27 in-depth interviews,\r\n71 medicinal plant taxa were recorded and identified in Adeane and 41 in Turin, for a total of 315 different folk remedies recorded\r\nin Senegal and 62 in Turin. The large majority of the medicinal plants recorded among Senegalese migrants in Turin were also used\r\nin their country of origin. These findings demonstrate the resilience of home remedies among migrants and consequently the role\r\nthey should have in shaping public health policies devoted to migrant groups in Western Countries, which seek to seriously take\r\ninto account culturally sensitive approaches, that is, emic health-seeking strategies.
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