A Preliminary Investigation on the Wild Plants Used as Medicine by the Mongolian Folk Healers in Bairin Right Banner,Inner Mongolia

Authors Monggenqiqig; Khasbagan

Journal Lishizhen Medicine and Materia Medica Research , 2012,3:23

Abstract There are 83 species and 4 varieties of wild plants used as medicine by the Mongolian folk healers in Bairin Right Banner,Inner Mongolia.The plant medicine used by the local Mongol healers are mainly as entire grass,and roots and rhizomes,fruits and seeds,and flowers are in the next place.Few Caulis and lignum,leafages and cortex are used.The local Mongol healers have a practice to choose different parts of the same plant used as medicine.There are many differences among different local Mongol healers in selecting the plant species to use as medicine.The plants used as medicine by local Mongol healers such as Adenophora elata,Adenophora stenanthina,Betula dahurica and Krascheniniikovia intramongolica are not recorded in the materials of Mongolian medicine and Chinese herbal medicine.The medicinal parts of wild plants such as Atractylodes lancea,Caragana microphylla,Crataegus pinnatifida,Cuscuta chinensis,Dracocephalum moldavica,Lilium pumilum,Papaver nudicaule,Pinus tabulaeformis,Scutellaria scordifolia,Thalictrum petaloideum,Veratrum nigrum,Viola.variegata are different between the records in materials of Mongolian medicine and Chinese herbal medicine.

Species covered 小叶锦鸡儿 Caragana microphylla 黑桦 Betula dahurica 山丹 Lilium pumilum 藜芦 Veratrum nigrum 香青兰 Dracocephalum moldavica 瓣蕊唐松草 Thalictrum petaloideum 野罂粟 Papaver nudicaule 山楂 Crataegus pinnatifida 菟丝子 Cuscuta chinensis 油松 Pinus tabulaeformis 并头黄芩 Scutellaria scordifolia