Ethnobotanical study of traditional medicinal plants used by the Miao people in Hainan, China

作者：Tian-Liang Tian-Liang, Sheng‐Zhuo Huang, Jun Zeng, Shoubai Liu, Hong‐Lei Jin, Yijun Chen, Battseren Tsambaa, Urtnasan Mandakh, Xilong Zheng, Wen‐Li Mei, Almaz Borjigidai, Hao‐Fu Dai · 发表于：Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1186/s13002-025-00795-z · 被引用次数：11 · 研究领域：Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies、Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies、Heavy Metals in Plants

BACKGROUND: The Miao people in Hainan possesses a profound historical heritage and unique ethnic culture. Through centuries of confronting survival challenges in tropical rainforest mountains, they have accumulated abundant knowledge of disease prevention and treatment. However, the traditional medicinal knowledge of the Hainan Miao people has been scarcely documented to date. This ethnobotanical study aims to: (1) record Miao people's traditional medicinal knowledge; (2) analyze medicinal properties and threats; (3) put forward suggestions for promoting the development of traditional medical knowledge of the Miao people. METHODS: From 2020 to 2022, 35 key informants (Miao healers, local herbalists, and plants gatherers, age range is 30-99 years) were interviewed in 11 regions of Hainan by means of participatory observation, semi-structured interview, key informant interview, and group discussion. The quantitative analysis employed the use value (UV), informant consensus factor (ICF), relative frequency of citation (RFC), and similarity index (Cj). The International Classification of Primary Care-2nd (ICPC-2) was used to classify the diseases treated by medicinal plants. RESULTS: A total of 348 medicinal plant species belonging to 114 families were recorded. These were primarily herbaceous plants (37.71%), with leaves (48.85%) most used, and decoction (39.94%) most frequently employed. Among them, 37 medicinal plants documented in this study were recorded for their medicinal ...