Medicinal flowering plants in Cao Bang province, Vietnam: The diversity and medical uses
1 Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Cau Giay, Ha Noi, Vietnam.
2 Department of Botany, Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Cau Giay, Ha Noi, Vietnam.
3 Faculty of Biology, Ha Noi National University of Education, 136 Xuan Thuy, Cau Giay, Ha Noi, Vietnam.
Research Article
GSC Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2023, 23(01), 240–248.
Article DOI: 10.30574/gscbps.2023.23.1.0171
Publication history:
Received on 14 March 2023; revised on 21 April 2023; accepted on 24 April 2023
Abstract:
There has not been a systematic publication of the list of medicinal plants for the whole Cao Bang province, leading to many difficulties in the use and development of medicinal plants here. The most important goal is to build a list of medicinal flowering plants with information about specific therapeutic uses; The next objective is to evaluate the diversity of taxa for all medicinal plants and their medicinal uses. The method for establishment of the list for medicinal flowering plants in Cao Bang province based on references, field investigations from 2016 to present and study on approximately 2000 specimens at herbaria; Application of Microsoft Access for data storage and analysis. The results recorded 940 medicinal species, 585 genera, 156 families in Cao Bang province. Of these, 577 species are used for 49 medicinal uses (asthma, brain hemorrhage, bronchitis, burned, cancer, cirrhosis, detoxify, diabetes, diuretic, dysentery, encephalitis, eyesore, flu, fracture, galactopoietic, gastritis, gonorrhoea, haemorrhoids, headache, heart and blood pressure diseases, hemostatic, hepatitis, hurt fall, inflammatory bowel, irregular menstruation, keratitis, kidney stone, malaria, measles, mumps, nephritis, obese, oedema, otitis, paralytic, pertussis, pimple, pneumonia, rheumatism, scrofulous, sinusitis, snake bite, sore throat, sterile, syphilis, toothache, tranquillizer, urolithiasis, vaginitis); The assessement of taxonomic ranks of medicinal flowering plants and the number of plant species, genera and families used for each medicinal use.
Keywords:
Diversity; Plants; Diseases; Cao Bang; Vietnam
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