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Table 2 Commercialized medicinal plant species

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

Species name

Market price RMB /Kg

Plant part traded

Dry or fresh plant traded

Degree of commercialization

Aucklandia lappa Dencne

16

Root

Dried

Medium

Gastrodia elata Bl.

400

Root

Dried

Medium

Gentiana robusta King ex Hook. F

16

Root

Dried

High

Platycodon grandiflorum (Jacq.) A.DC.

30

Root

Dried

High

Ligusticum sinense cv. Chuanhsiung Shan ex k. C. Fu

18

Root

Dried

High

Rheum palmatum L

8

Root

Dried

Low

Notopterygium franchetii Boiss

24

Root

Dried

Low

Dipsacus mitis D. Don

7

Root

Dried

Medium

Atractylodis macrocephalae Koidz.

16

Root

Dried

Medium

Paris polyphylla Smith var yunnanensis (Fr.) Hand.-Mazz.

200

Root

Dried

High

Cynanchum otophyllum Schneid.

400

Root

Dried

Medium

Aconitum carmichaeli Debx.

8

Root

Fresh

Low

Bletilla sinensis (Rolf) Schltr.

28

Root

Dried

Low

Ligusticum chuanxiong S.H.Qiu

14

Root

Dried

Medium

  1. Over half the study site households were found to maintain fourteen commercialized species.