Resources and application of She's nationality wild medicinal plants.
- Author:
Hou-Xing LEI
;
Jian-Liang LI
;
Song-Ming ZHENG
;
Li-Hua FAN
;
Shui-Fu LI
;
Wen-Liang CHENG
;
Jin-Wei HUA
;
Hua-Li YU
;
De-Xiong DAI
;
Yuan-Wei XIE
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
China;
ethnology;
Conservation of Natural Resources;
Drugs, Chinese Herbal;
analysis;
Ethnic Groups;
Humans;
Medicine, Chinese Traditional;
Plants, Medicinal;
chemistry;
classification;
growth & development
- From:
China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica
2014;39(16):3180-3183
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
To make a thorough investigation of the common She's nationality wild medicinal plants resources in our country, including the species, the distribution, the folk application and the endemic medicinal plant species, Field surveyed was conducted with 25 She people mainly lived area (county, district or city) throughout the country, the folk prescription and treatment cases provided by She's medical personnel, the drug usage and dosage, the commonly used traditional She's medicine and drug samples were collected. And the distribution, growing environment of these plants were investigated, their characteristics, photographs, GPS data and track were record , and the fresh wax leaf or plants specimens were collected. In total 1 600 varieties of folk medicine of She's nationality, 450 disease names and 1 016 prescriptions were collected. 520 kinds of these medicinal plants were commonly used, growing mainly distributed in the southeastern China, about 200 meters above sea level to 1 500 meters. There are 5 First-Grade State protection wild plants (medicinal), 15 second-Grade State protection wild plants (medicinal), and 11 She characteristic medicinal plants in our study, they belong to 144 families, 312 genera 494 species, 2 subspecies, 17 varieties, 3 forms and 1 cultivated varieties of She's nationality. Folk medicine usage is different from the traditional Chinese medicine and ethnic medicine. This survey finds out the common She's nationality wild medicinal plants resources in China, including the species, the distribution, the folk application and commonly used drugs, and found the rare and endangered medicinal plants and the She's nationality endemic medicinal plants, which provides a basis for further development and use the traditional She's medicine resources.
