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DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1556325
Ethnomedicinal plants investigation in Hezhen nationality
The Hezhen is one of the smallest minorities in China. With a population of 5,354 in 2010, the Hezhen people mainly live in five settlements including Aoqi in Jiamusi, Jiejinkou and Bacha in Tongjiang, Zhuaji in Fuyuan and Sipai in Raohe counties along the rivers of Songhua, Heilongjiang and Wusuli in the northeast of Heilongjiang Province in China. The Hezhen have fished and hunted for generations. Because the Hezhen had little genetic communication with other nationalities in history, Hezhen people have kept their own traditional knowledge for living healthy, especially for the fishing and hunting related illness, such as rheumatism, arthritis, etc. Fifty-four species including medicinal uses, parts and purposes were catalogued based on the ethnobotanical investigation of medicinal plants in five settlements of Hezhen people. These species are belonging to thirty four families, fifty two genera and involved in seventeen different medicinal purposes. The medicinal uses of fourteen species are unique in Hezhen people compared with the Mongolia, Ewenki, and Oroqen nationality. This research explored and recorded the traditional medicinal knowledge of the Hezhen, and the result may be preparing the ground for the development of ethnopharmacology of the Hezhen. Acknowledgment: financial support by project of NSFC-81274158, 81373765, NCET-12 – 0578, 13 – 0624, “111”-B08044 and YLDX01013.