Table 2.

Animal, plant and mineral derivatives in folk medicine

Agent	Method of employment and use	Bibliographical use (references)	Field use (frequency of citation)
Badger	Coat, with splinters of brass under the halters of the horses to protect them from the evil eye	Conti [2]
Hare's blood	Pneumonia and pleurisy. It is kept dried, dissolved in lukewarm water (internal use)	Moffa [4]
	Spread on painful joints, especially the shoulder		1(PI)
Cinders	On potato plants to protect them from parasites		4(PI)
Cobwebs	Applied fresh to wounds as an haemostatic and cicatrising agent	Moffa [4]	1(PI)
Domestic mouse (!!)	As food for the incontinence, skinned and cooked		6 (PI)
Ass Dung	Dried and powdered on bleeding wounds	Moffa [4]
Egg white	Whisked until stiff, it was mixed with lime and wrapped on fractured limbs as plaster		4 (PG)
	For sprains and haematomas, whisked until stiff, applied to the skin and bound		4 (CH) 4 (VG)
Fat	Fat of fox or horse applied to pimples to bring them to a head	Conti [2]
	Hen fat spread on sores of the neck of oxen		4 (PI)
Hard eggs and March "ricotta"	As food in cases of dysentery	Conti [2]
Leeches	Applied to the skin against typhus		2 (CH)
Salt water	External cysts, the skin was always kept wet		4 (PI)
Snail ("ciammarùca")	The mucilage was applied to serious skin inflammations		3 (PI)
Soot	De-wormer for children, dissolved in water (internal use		4 (VG)
	On wounds as an anti-parasitic (veterinary use)		4 (VG)
	As a repellent, with wood cinder in molehills		6 (PI)
Sl oughing of snake (old skin)	Crumbled and mixed with food: for women with difficult pregnancy (magic use)		4 (CH) 6 (PI)
	Put in a small bag as an amulet against evil eye		4(PI)
Wax of ear	On pimples (applied with Hyoscyamus sp. leave)	Pierro [3]