Medicinal Plants of the Russian Pharmacopoeia; their history and applications Alexander N. Shikov, Olga N. Pozharitskaya, Valery G. Makarov, Hildebert Wagner, Rob Verpoorte, Michael Heinrich Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2014, 154, 481–536 Doi : 10.1016/j.jep.2014.04.007   Ethnopharmacological relevance : Due to the location of Russia between West and East, Russian phytotherapy has accumulated and adopted approaches that originated in European and Asian traditional medicine. Phytotherapy is an official and separate branch of medicine in Russia; thus, herbal medicinal preparations are considered official medicaments.The aim of the present review is to summarize and critically appraise data concerning plants used in Russian medicine.This review describes the history of herbal [...]