Medicinal Plants and Fungi Traditionally Used by Dulong People in Northwest Yunnan, China.

ABSTRACT: The Dulong, an ethnic group living in the isolated Northwest Yunnan of Southwest China, have directly used a wide of plants to serve their needs and have accumulated rich traditional knowledge about medicinal plants over years. Unfortunately, little has been reported about the medicinal plants used by the Dulong people. Ethnobotanical data were collected through semi-structured interviews, guided field trips, and quantitative analysis. Prior informed consent was obtained before each interview. The surveys allowed for the collection of sociodemographic data and traditional knowledge about medicinal plants and their uses. This study used relative frequency of citation (RFC) to identify the most culturally significant medicinal plants and used informant consensus factor (FIC) to evaluate agre

SUBMITTER: Cheng Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9124798 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature