พฤกษศาสตร์พื้นบ้านของชาวม้ง บ้านปางช้าง ตำบลพงษ์ อำเภอสันติสุข จังหวัดน่าน / อัญชลี น่วมมี = Ethnobotany of Hmong in Ban Pang Chang, Tambon Pong, Amphoe Santisuk, Changwat Nan / Ancharee Nuammee
The knowledge of plant uses in Thai hill tribes has been subjected to a number of studies mainly due to rapid modernization and loss of knowledge transfer to younger generations. Ethnobotany of Hmong in Ban Pang Chang, Tambon Pong, Amphoe Santisuk, Changwat Nan, was conducted and results indicated that 276 species in 223 genera 90 families – 266 species in 215 genera 82 families of flowering plants, and 10 species in 8 genera 8 families of ferns and lycophytes – had been used in daily life. Plants in Poaceae, Fabaceae, Asteraceae, Cucurbitaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Zingiberaceae, Acanthaceae, Lamiaceae, Orchidaceae, Solanaceae, Rubiaceae, and Amaranthaceae, were families with the highest number of species used, in descending order. There were 88 alien species, of which 78 were cultivated in Hmong home garden. Most plants used by Hmong were mostly herbs, followed by trees, shrubs, and climber in similar numbers, and a few in epiphytes and bamboos. Plants were used in 7 categories, namely medicines (174), food (130), housing and household utensils (24), rituals and belief (14), commerce (5), poisonous plants (3) and miscellaneous uses (18). For medicinal uses, leaves and roots were used most and the majority of preparation was using fresh materials that were boiled in hot water. In food category, fruits and leaves or young shoots were consumed mostly without any preparation. Thirty species were known by all informants for various uses whereas 54 species were known for only single use in each species by 2-7 informants and 192 species were used for 2-9 applications by 2-9 sets of informants. It was suggested that divcerged knowledge of plant uses by Hmong at Ban Pang Chang should be considered as complementary knowledge, probably due to their cultural practice in their way of life, rather than lack of cultural consensus.
