Table 1

Table 1
*Lists of materia medica* compiled among Israeli ethnic groups and minorities**
Ethic Group	Plants	Animals	Inorganic	Total	Reference

Yemenite Jews	151	21	10	182	[18]
Iranian Jews	65	3	2	70	[21]
Iraqi Jews	150	16	15	181	[20]
Bedouins	193	42	15	250	[17]

• The data were gathered from diverse sources on different academic levels of research. • The only group whose members still live an active life in the wild are the Bedouins, so the lists of plants and animals recorded as used in their medicine are larger than in other groups.
Lev Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2006 2:4 doi:10.1186/1746-4269-2-4