Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Calle Ovidio Suarez (26), Cota Cota, La Paz, Bolivia.
Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Instituto de Ecología-UMSA, Campus Universitario, Cota Cota Calle 27, La Paz, Bolivia.
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed. 2018 Jun 20;14(1):43. doi: 10.1186/s13002-018-0241-8.
Despite the importance of local markets as a source of medicinal plants in Colombia, comparatively little comparative research reports on the pharmacopoeiae sold. This stands in contrast to wealth of available information for other components of plant use in Colombia and other countries. The present provides a detailed inventory of the medicinal plant markets in the Bogotá metropolitan area, hypothesizing that the species composition, and medicinal applications, would differ across markets of the city.
From December 2014 to February 2016, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 38 plant vendors in 24 markets in Bogotá in order to elucidate more details on plant usage and provenance.
In this study, we encountered 409 plant species belonging to 319 genera and 122 families. These were used for a total of 19 disease categories with 318 different applications. Both species composition and uses of species did show considerable differences across the metropolitan area-much higher in fact than we expected.
The present study indicated a very large species and use diversity of medicinal plants in the markets of Bogotá, with profound differences even between markets in close proximity. This might be explained by the great differences in the origin of populations in Bogotá, the floristic diversity in their regions of origin, and their very distinct plant use knowledge and preferences that are transferred to the markets through customer demand. Our study clearly indicated that studies in single markets cannot give an in-depth overview on the plant supply and use in large metropolitan areas.
尽管地方市场作为哥伦比亚药用植物的来源非常重要，但比较少的比较研究报告涉及销售的药典。这与哥伦比亚和其他国家植物使用的其他组成部分的大量可用信息形成鲜明对比。本研究详细列出了波哥大大都市区的药用植物市场清单，假设这些市场的物种组成和药用应用会有所不同。
2014 年 12 月至 2016 年 2 月，在波哥大的 24 个市场中对 38 名植物销售商进行了半结构化访谈，以阐明更多关于植物用途和来源的细节。
在这项研究中，我们遇到了 409 种植物，属于 319 属和 122 科。这些植物共用于 19 种疾病类别，有 318 种不同的应用。物种组成和物种的用途确实在整个大都市区表现出相当大的差异，实际上比我们预期的要高得多。
本研究表明，波哥大市场的药用植物具有非常大的物种和用途多样性，即使在邻近的市场之间也存在深刻的差异。这可能是由于波哥大人口的起源差异很大，其起源地区的植物多样性，以及通过客户需求传递到市场的非常独特的植物使用知识和偏好所导致的。我们的研究清楚地表明，在单个市场进行的研究不能深入了解大型大都市区的植物供应和使用情况。
