Diversity and ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Ban Hua Kua, Kae Dam District, Thailand

Abstract

Abstract. Numpulsuksant W, Saensouk S, Sanesouk P. 2021. Diversity and ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Ban Hua Kua, Kae Dam District, Thailand. Biodiversitas 22: 4349-4357. Diversity and ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Ban Hua Kua village, Kae Dam District, Maha Sarakham Province, Thailand. Biodiversitas 22: xxxx-xxxx. This study can serve as basic information for further study and provide conservation criteria for medicinal plants in Ban Hua Kua village, Kae Dam District, Maha Sarakham Province to assure continued species richness and sustainable use. This study aimed to document ethnobotanical knowledge of medicinal plants, including their diversity, in Ban Hua Kua village, Kae Dam District, Maha Sarakham Province, Thailand. The ethnobotanical data were obtained from 19 local experts using semi-structured forms to record the interviewee's personal information and topics related to the medicinal use of specific plants. Thirty-eight medicinal plants belonging to 35 genera in 23 families were collected. The most commonly represented family was Zingiberaceae comprised of six species (Alpinia galanga (L.) Willd., Boesenbergia rotunda (L.) Mansf., Curcuma angustifolia Roxb., Curcuma comosa Roxb., Curcuma longa L., and Zingiber officinale Roscoe), followed by Fabaceae with four species (Derris scandens (Roxb.) Benth., Dialium cochinchinense Pierre, Senna siamea Lam., and Tamarindus indica L.), and Rutaceae with three species (Aegle marmelos (L.) Corrêa ex Roxb., Clausena wallichii Oliv., Hesperethusa crenulata (Roxb.) Roem.), while the other 20 families represent only one to two plant species. The root was the most frequently used part of the plant. The species with the highest use-value was Antiaris toxicaria Lesch. (0.68), a native plant of the Ban Hua Kuavillage. Diospyros mollis Griff. (CI = 0.21), Dialium cochinchinense Pierre (CI = 0.21), Anisomeles indica (L.) Kuntze (CI = 0.21), Vitex glabrata R. Br. (CI = 0.21), Aegle marmelos (L.) Corrêa ex Roxb. (CI = 0.21), Phyllanthus emblica L. (CI = 0.21), and Hesperethusa crenulata (Roxb.) Roem. (CI = 0.21) were found the highest cultural important index (CI), while Diospyros mollis Griff., Dialium cochinchinense Pierre, Anisomeles indica (L.) Kuntze, Vitex glabrata R. Br., Phyllanthus emblica L., Aegle marmelos (L.) Corrêa ex Roxb., and Hesperethusa crenulata (Roxb.) Roem. were found the highest %FL = 50. The climber was mostly used for medicinal plants (IAR = 0.97). Root (57.89%), leaf (52.63%), and fruit (39.47%) were reported the most plant parts used by the villagers. Therefore, the indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants at Ban Hua Kua village is indicated to conservation for sustainable use in the future. Moreover, this study was the first reported in Maha Sarakham province.

Ethnobotany of edible plants in Muang District, Kalasin Province, Thailand

“…The ethnobotany of edible plants in Muang District, Kalasin Province was collected between March 2019 and February 2021. The uses of edible plants were collected by the semi-structured interview method through randomly selected key participants (Numpulsuksant et al 2021;Saisor et al 2021;Susandarini et al 2021) and focus group discussions with 40 informants from 17 sub-districts by random selection of 2-5 people per sub-district. In addition, to the local name and questionnaire about the parts of the edible plants used and consumption methods, their properties when the plants are used to cure diseases and heal patients were collected.…”

“…Fidelity level is used to analyze the most interesting plant species that were used to cure disease in each ailment category (Friedmann et al 1986;Numpulsuksant et al 2021).…”

Cytogenetic study of five species of medicinal plants from Maha Sarakham Province, Thailand

“…People in different regions of Thailand are increasingly taking advantage of plants from these natural resources. Therefore, the local plants in each community in different regions of Thailand are important, and the awareness of the benefits of local plants have been receiving increasing attention due to people in different regions increasingly making use of native plants from nature (Inta et al 2013;Khuankaew et al 2014;Cruz-Garcia et al 2016;Panyadee et al 2016;Saensouk et al 2016;Pholhiamhan et al 2018;Phumthum et al 2018;Junsongduang et al 2017Junsongduang et al , 2020Punchay et al 2020;Saensouk and Saensouk 2021d;Numpulsuksant et al 2021;Phatlamphu et al 2021;Saisor et al 2021;Ragsasilp et al 2022).…”

“…The villagers in Maha Sarakham Province depend on the natural plant resources of neighboring forests for food, medicine, firewood, building houses, and making home appliances, etc. (Numpulsuksant et al 2021;Saisor et al 2021;Saensouk and Saensouk 2022). Therefore, the forest in this province is important to the lives of the nearby villagers from the past to the present.…”

“…Therefore, villagers from Thailand cultivate medicinal plants in their home gardens, i.e., banana, basil, black pepper, cucumber, finger root, garlic, ginger, galangal, gooseberry, kaffir lime, lime leaves, lemon grass, mango, mint, pandan, pepper, sesame, shallot, tamarind, tomato, and turmeric, etc. (Pholhiamhan et al 2018;Saensouk and Saensouk 2021a;Numpulsuksant et al 2021;Phatlamphu et al 2021;Saisor et al 2021;Ragsasilp et al 2022). Several authors have studied the cytology of some species of medicinal plants, i.e., Banerji and Haldar (1942), Harada (1943), Majumdar (1953), Banerjee (1974), Bhattacharya and Ghosh (1979), Patwary et al (1989), Wang and Wang (1989), Uchiyama (1989), Forni-Martins andCalligaris (2002), Kundu (2005), Wang et al (2007), Feitoza et al (2010, Saensouk and Saensouk (2020).…”