Srithi Kamonnate, Balslev Henrik, Wangpakapattanawong Prasit, Srisanga Prachaya, Trisonthi Chusie
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Huaykaew Rd., Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand. kamonnate
J Ethnopharmacol. 2009 Jun 22;123(2):335-42. doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2009.02.035. Epub 2009 Mar 4.
We studied local knowledge and actual uses of medicinal plants among the Mien in northern Thailand, documenting traditional medical practices and its transfer between generations.
With the assumption that discrepancies between knowledge and actual use represent knowledge erosion, we studied whether actual use of medicinal plants corresponded to people's knowledge of such uses.
We used local knowledge from four specialist informants as the domain for semi-structured interviews with 34 randomly selected non-specialist informants. We calculated informant consensus, use value, and fidelity level for each species and use category and performed statistical analyses with Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests, Pearson correlation coefficient, Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, and paired-sample t-tests.
We found significant discrepancies between knowledge and actual use of medicinal plants. The number of known and actually used plants increased with increasing informant age and decreased with increasing years of formal education.
Medicinal plant knowledge and use in these Mien communities is undergoing inter-generational erosion because of acculturation and interrupted knowledge transmission. Preservation of Mien medicinal plant intellectual heritage requires continued documentation concerning use, conservation, and sustainable management of this resource, which should be publicized to younger Mien.
我们研究了泰国北部苗族对药用植物的本土知识和实际用途，记录了传统医学实践及其代际传承。
假设知识与实际用途之间的差异代表知识流失，我们研究了药用植物的实际用途是否与人们对这些用途的了解相符。
我们将来自四位专家信息提供者的本土知识作为对34名随机挑选的非专家信息提供者进行半结构化访谈的领域。我们计算了每个物种和用途类别的信息提供者共识、使用价值和保真度水平，并使用柯尔莫哥洛夫-斯米尔诺夫检验、皮尔逊相关系数、斯皮尔曼等级相关系数和配对样本t检验进行统计分析。
我们发现药用植物的知识与实际用途之间存在显著差异。已知和实际使用的植物数量随着信息提供者年龄的增加而增加，随着正规教育年限的增加而减少。
由于文化适应和知识传承中断，这些苗族社区的药用植物知识和用途正在经历代际流失。保护苗族药用植物知识遗产需要持续记录该资源的使用、保护和可持续管理情况，并应向年轻的苗族人宣传。
