Ethnobotanical study on medicinal market during the Double Ninth Festival in Yangchun City, West Guangdong

作者 Zhou Jinsong; Lu Biyu; Zhang Danyan; Liu Junmin; Wang Jiangang; Wang Liguo; Li Runmei; Deng Sujian

期刊 Guihaia , 2016,9:36

摘要 This paper presents the result of a preliminary investigation on medicinal market during the Double Ninth Festival in Yangchun, a tropical city in West Guangdong, China. Based on the approaches of ethnobotany and taxonomy, the medicinal market of the Double Ninth Festival in Yangchun was investigated during 2013-2014 comprehensively. The results showed that Yangchun was an area with rich plant diversity, there were more than 1 580 species wild vascular plants in this area, which belonged to 210 families and 754 genera, most of them had medicinal values. The medicinal plants collected and sold in the medicinal market of the Double Ninth Festival by local people were diverse. More than 134 species of medicinal plants were investigated and recorded, which belong to 60 families and 117 genera. An inventory of medicinal plants which sold in the medicinal market on the Double Ninth Festival in Yangchun was documented in the present paper, including local name, scientific name, part used, application and prepared methods. The number of families containing more than five species was seven, including Euphorbiaceae(11 species), Papilionaceae(10 species), Asteraceae(10 species), Rubiaceae(9 species), Verbenaceae(6 species), Zingiberaceae(5 species), Menispermaceae(5 species). Most medicinal plants belong to various different families, instead of concentrating in a few families. In addition, medicinal plants resources, culture background, character of prepared methods and regional character of medicinal market were analyzed. The medicinal plants used for health-care were widely used in the daily life of the people in Yangchun, such as Amomum villosum, Rhamnus crenata, Morinda officinalis, Millettia speciose, Flemingia philippinensis, Gynostemma pentaphyllum, Rhodomyrtus tomentosa, Rosa laevigata and so on. The medicinal use of medicinal plants were closely related with Yangchun''s natural environment, mostly for diseases which caused by hot and humid climate and mosquito and snake bite. Finally, suggestions for development of medicinal market were also proposed in the paper, more multi-discipline studies should be carried out on medicinal plants with potential values, which may play an important role in more extensive application range.

涉及物种 砂仁(原变种) Amomum villosum 金樱子 Rosa laevigata 绞股蓝 Gynostemma pentaphyllum 桃金娘 Rhodomyrtus tomentosa 长叶冻绿 Rhamnus crenata 密梗巴戟天 Morinda officinalis 千斤拔 Flemingia philippinensis