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Table 1 Most frequently inventoried medicinal plants

From: Comparative homegarden medical ethnobotany of Naxi healers and farmers in Northwestern Yunnan, China

Species name

Medicinal vale

Edible value

Economic value

Ornamental value

Aconitum carmichaeli Debx.

√

√

√

√

Aucklandia lappa Decne.

√

√

√

 

Chaenomeles sinensis (Thunb.) Makino

√

√

√

 

Fallopia multiflora (Thunb.) Harald.

√

√

√

√

Foeniculum vulgare Mill.

√

√

√

 

Gentiana robusta King ex Hook.f.

√

  

√

Lactuca sativa L.

√

√

√

 

Ligusticum chuanxiong S.H.Qiu

√

√

  

Mentha spicata L.

√

√

√

 

Paeonia delavayi Franch.var. Lutea (Delav. Ex Franch.) Finet. Et Gagnep.

√

 

√

√

Paris polyphylla Smith var yunnanensis

√

 

√

√

Platycodon grandiflorus (Jacq.) A.DC.

√

√

√

 

Prinsepia utilis Role

√

√

√

√

Zanthoxylum bungenum Maxim

√

√

√

√

  1. The most frequently inventoried medicinal plants at the study sites are also valued for various other properties by households including edible, economic, and ornamental.