Inventory of medicinal plants from ethnic minority in Ba Vi National park
- Author:
On Van Tran
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Traditional medicine
- MeSH:
In this paper, a total of 467 species of medicinal plant, belonging to 109 families have been reported used by Yao (Dao) ethnic minority living in Bavi National Park’s buffer zone. Forty-four species have been identified as frequently used and twenty-nine
- From:Pharmaceutical Journal
1999;282(10):9-12
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
In this paper, a total of 467 species of medicinal plant, belonging to 109 families have been reported used by Yao (Dao) ethnic minority living in Bavi National Park’s buffer zone. Forty-four species have been identified as frequently used and twenty-nine species of high priority for conservation. Principal Components Analysis revealed that abundance of medicinal plants and number of medicinal plants listed in the Vietnamese Essential Drug List are negatively, significant correlated to PCA1 which dominated by altitude, slope, vegetation disturbance, number of tree species, canopy height of trees and grass cover. While number of high priority conservation and number of frequently used medicinal plants are positively correlated with PCA1.
