Kala Chandra Prakash
GB Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment & Development, Kosi-Katarmal, Almora, Uttaranchal, India.
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed. 2005 Nov 16;1:11. doi: 10.1186/1746-4269-1-11.
This paper investigates the wealth of medicinal plants used by the Apatani tribe of Arunachal Pradesh. Apatani have traditionally settled in seven villages in the Ziro valley of Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh in the Eastern Himalayan region of India. The present study has resulted in the documentation of 158 medicinal plant species used by the Apatani group of villages. These medicinal plant species were distributed across 73 families and 124 genera. Asteraceae was the most dominant family (19 species, 11 genera) of medicinal plants, followed by Zingiberaceae, Solanaceae, Lamiaceae and Araceae. For curing ailments, the use of aboveground plant parts was higher (80%) than the belowground plant parts in the Apatani group of villages. Of the aboveground plant parts, leaf was used in the majority of cases (56 species), followed by fruit. Different belowground plant forms such as root, tuber, rhizome, bulb and pseudo-bulb were used by Apatani as a medicine. About 52 types of ailments were cured by using these 158 medicinal plant species. The results of this study are further discussed in the changing socio-economic contexts.
本文调查了阿鲁纳恰尔邦阿帕塔尼部落使用的药用植物资源。阿帕塔尼人传统上定居在印度东喜马拉雅地区阿鲁纳恰尔邦下苏班西里县齐罗山谷的七个村庄。本研究记录了阿帕塔尼村落群体使用的158种药用植物物种。这些药用植物物种分布在73个科和124个属中。菊科是药用植物中最主要的科（19种，11属），其次是姜科、茄科、唇形科和天南星科。在阿帕塔尼村落群体中，用于治疗疾病时，地上植物部分的使用比例（80%）高于地下植物部分。在地上植物部分中，大多数情况下使用的是叶子（56种），其次是果实。阿帕塔尼人将根、块茎、根茎、球茎和假球茎等不同的地下植物形态用作药物。使用这158种药用植物物种治愈了约52种疾病。本研究结果在不断变化的社会经济背景下得到了进一步讨论。
