Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants utilised by Hani ethnicity in Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Yunnan, China

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 651-667

  Ghorbani, Abdolbaset ^a   Langenberger, Gerhard ^a   Feng, Liu ^b   Sauerborn, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b Naban River Watershed Nature Reserve Management Office   (China)

Author keywords

Bioeconomy; Ethnobotany; Hani minority; Medicinal plant; NTFP

Indexed keywords

ACORUS CALAMUS EXTRACT; ADHATODA VASICA EXTRACT; ALOCASIA EXTRACT; AMARANTHUS VIRIDIS EXTRACT; BAPHICACANTHUS CUSIA EXTRACT; CARYOTA MONOSTACHYS EXTRACT; CENTELLA ASIATICA EXTRACT; CURCULIGO CAPITULATA EXTRACT; DEERINGIA AMARANTHOIDES EXTRACT; ELEUTHEROCOCCUS TRIFOLIATUS EXTRACT; ERYNGIUM FOETIDUM EXTRACT; FISSISTIGMA ACUMINATISSIMUM EXTRACT; GENDARUSSA VENTRICOSA EXTRACT; ILEX TEPHROPHYLLA EXTRACT; IRESINE HERBSTII EXTRACT; LEPIDAGATHIS INCURVA EXTRACT; MANGIFERA INDICA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; POTHOS REPENS EXTRACT; RAUVOLFIA VERTICILLATA EXTRACT; RHAPHIDOPHORA DECURSIVA EXTRACT; RHAPHIDOPHORA HONGKONGENSIS EXTRACT; RHAPHIDOPHORA LANCIFOLIA EXTRACT; RHUS CHINENSIS EXTRACT; SAURAUIA CEREA EXTRACT; SAURAUIA PUNDUANA EXTRACT; SCHEFFLERA BREVIPEDICELLATA EXTRACT; STEUDNERA COLOCASIIFOLIA EXTACT; TREVESIA PALMATA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANGIOSPERM; ARISTOLOCHIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BITE; BONE INJURY; CHINA; DIARRHEA; DYSURIA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHNICITY; ETHNOBOTANY; EUPATORIUM COELESTINUM; EUPHORBIA; FOOD POISONING; FOREST; FRACTURE; GUAVA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIGESTION; LAND USE; LEGUME; LITSEA MARTABANICA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MICROSTEGIUM CILIATUM; MINORITY GROUP; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PIPERACEAE; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STOMACH PAIN; TRACHEITIS; VERBENACEAE; WATERSHED;

CHINA; ETHNOBOTANY; GEOGRAPHY; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARISTOLOCHIA; ASTERACEAE; DENDROBIUM CREPIDATUM; EUPATORIUM COELESTINUM; EUPHORBIACEAE; FABACEAE; LAMIACEAE; LILIACEAE; LITSEA MARTABANICA; MICROSTEGIUM; PIPERACEAE; PSIDIUM GUAJAVA; SOLANACEAE; VERBENACEAE;

EID: 79954419202     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2011.01.011     Document Type: Article

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