Yao herbal medicinal market during the Dragon Boat Festival in Jianghua County, China.
Binsheng LuoYujing LiuBo LiuSizhao LiuBeixi ZhangLinghan ZhangChunrui LinYan LiuEdward J KennellyZhiyong GuoChun-Lin LongPublished in: Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine (2018)
The medicinal market during the Dragon Boat Festival in Jianghua County possesses an important cultural value and helps to conserve the traditional Yao medicinal knowledge. The medicinal plants sold at the market showed great diversity and unique local characteristics. The medicinal market is facing some challenges in such a rapidly developing era. Cultivation of young healers and maintaining the local biodiversity might be the key solutions for the development of local medicinal market and local Yao medicinal knowledge.
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