Huang Shyh-Shyun, Huang Chia-Hung, Ko Chien-Yu, Chen Ting-Yang, Cheng Yung-Chi, Chao Jung
School of Pharmacy, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Department of Food Nutrition and Health Biotechnology, Asia University, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taichung, Taiwan.
Front Pharmacol. 2022 Feb 9;12:681190. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2021.681190. eCollection 2021.
Kinmen is an outlying island that has the richest plant resources in Taiwan. The objective of this study was to record the methods that people in Kinmen use medicinal plants and to analyze the cultural characteristics of their use. Field investigations were carried out in various towns and villages in Kinmen, and 80 respondents were included in the survey. The search for respondents was conducted through local elderly people and medicinal plant groups. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the local people to obtain their knowledge of medicinal plants and how they disseminate this information. Informed consent was obtained prior to the interviews, and the following was determined: plant use value (UV), frequency of citation (FC), and factor of informant consensus (Fic). These parameters were used to quantify the data and measure the agreement among the respondents on using plants to treat different diseases. Finally, the survey results were compared with the representative ethnobotanical literature in neighboring areas to evaluate the similarity between plant usage in Kinmen and neighboring areas as well as to determine whether there are new species or novel usages in the study area. In the Kinmen area, phytotherapy is generally used by elderly people with low educational attainments. According to the survey results, 83 medicinal plants belonging to 48 families were collected. These medicinal plants were mainly distributed in the Compositae, Lamiaceae and Solanaceae families. Eighteen novel uses that have not been previously documented were found, four of which were related to newly recorded medicinal plant species in the Kinmen area. The results showed that 93.98 and 65.06% of the species collected in the present study were also recorded in literature from Taiwan and Fujian, respectively. This study showed that Kinmen's ethnobotanical knowledge is closely related to the , and local people indeed shared similar uses of medicinal species with people in Taiwan and Fujian (46.99%). The results from this study highlighted the importance of traditional medicine in the Kinmen area, where people have a specific understanding of using medicinal plants and communication with people in Taiwan and Fujian Province in China. It was found that Kinmen shares ethnobotanical knowledge with Taiwan and Fujian.
金门是台湾植物资源最丰富的离岛。本研究的目的是记录金门民众使用药用植物的方法，并分析其使用的文化特征。在金门的各个乡镇村落进行了实地调查，共纳入80名受访者。通过当地老年人和药用植物团体寻找受访者。对当地人进行了半结构化访谈，以了解他们对药用植物的认识以及他们如何传播这些信息。在访谈前获得了知情同意，并确定了以下内容：植物使用价值（UV）、引用频率（FC）和 informant 共识因子（Fic）。这些参数用于量化数据并衡量受访者在使用植物治疗不同疾病方面的一致性。最后，将调查结果与邻近地区的代表性民族植物学文献进行比较，以评估金门与邻近地区植物使用的相似性，并确定研究区域是否有新物种或新用途。在金门地区，植物疗法普遍由教育程度较低的老年人使用。根据调查结果，收集到48科83种药用植物。这些药用植物主要分布在菊科、唇形科和茄科。发现了18种以前未记录的新用途，其中4种与金门地区新记录的药用植物物种有关。结果表明，本研究中收集的物种分别有93.98%和65.06%也记录在台湾和福建的文献中。本研究表明，金门的民族植物学知识与……密切相关，当地人与台湾和福建的民众在药用物种的使用上确实有相似之处（46.99%）。本研究结果突出了传统医学在金门地区的重要性，当地民众对药用植物的使用有特定的认识，并与中国台湾和福建省的民众有交流。研究发现金门与台湾和福建共享民族植物学知识。
