Inta Angkhana, Shengji Pei, Balslev Henrik, Wangpakapattanawong Prasit, Trisonthi Chusie
Department of Biology, Chiang Mai University, Huaykaew Road, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.
J Ethnopharmacol. 2008 Mar 28;116(3):508-17. doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2007.12.015. Epub 2008 Jan 6.
The survey aims to study the effect of geographic separation of ethnic groups on local knowledge of medicinal plants used by Akha people in Thailand and China, who were separated 100-120 years ago, to see how different the two geographically distinct but culturally similar groups were in this respect.
Interviewing 10 villagers in each of five Akha villages, three in Thailand and two in China, about which plants they used and how they used them.
A total of 95 medicinal plants registered in the five villages only 16 were shared between China and Thailand. Otherwise the use patterns were quite similar with respect to which plant families and plant growth forms were used and also in terms of in which habitats the Akha found their medicinal plants.
The moving to a different site has forced the Akha to find a new set of species, but that when using these new species they have maintained other traditions relating to medicinal plants.
该调查旨在研究民族地理分隔对泰国和中国阿卡族使用药用植物的当地知识的影响,这两个群体在100 - 120年前被分隔开来,以了解这两个地理上不同但文化上相似的群体在这方面的差异程度。
在五个阿卡族村庄(泰国三个,中国两个)中,分别采访10位村民,询问他们使用哪些植物以及如何使用这些植物。
五个村庄共记录了95种药用植物,其中只有16种在中国和泰国之间共享。在使用哪些植物科和植物生长形式方面,以及在阿卡族发现其药用植物的栖息地方面,使用模式相当相似。
迁移到不同地点迫使阿卡族寻找一组新的物种,但在使用这些新物种时,他们保留了与药用植物相关的其他传统。