Culinary and medicinal wonders of the wild: An ethnobotanical review of native herbs and spices in Thailand.

ABSTRACT: This ethnobotanical review explores the culinary and medicinal uses of wild herbs and spices in Thailand, with an emphasis on documenting traditional knowledge and their ethnomedicinal uses. Analyzing 76 ethnobotanical studies, we identified 248 use reports encompassing 46 species, 10 families, and 26 genera, predominantly focusing on the flora of northern Thailand. The most frequently utilized wild herbs and spices include Alpinia galanga (64.5 %), Persicaria odorata (34.2 %), Litsea cubeba (32.9 %), Citrus hystrix (31.6 %), Boesenbergia rotunda, Piper sarmentosum (14.5 %), Elsholtzia griffithii (11.8 %), Zingiber kerrii (11.8 %) and Zanthoxylum armatum (10.5 %). Notably, 41 out of 46 investigated species were acknowledged for

SUBMITTER: Inta A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11872421 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature