Review Article

Policies and Problems of Modernizing Ethnomedicine in China: A Focus on the Yi and Dai Traditional Medicines of Yunnan Province

Table 4

Rare medicinal materials used in DPMs and YPMs.

Herbal nameScientific nameNPWPIUCNProprietaryNPWMUF

GancaoGlycyrrhiza uralensis FischIILCII26
Glycyrrhiza inflata Bat.IILCII
Glycyrrhiza glabra L.IILCII
RenshenPanax ginseng C. A. MeyICRII4
LianqiaoForsythia suspense (Thunb.) Vahl.III4
HuangqinScutellaria baicalensis GeorgiIII4
WuweiziSchisandra chinensis (Turcz.) Baill.IILCIII1
LurongCervus nip port TemminckI1
Cervus elaphus LinnaeusI
RouchongrongCistanche deserticola Y. C. MaIIENIII1
Cistanche tubulosa (Schenk) WightII
HuangbaiPhellodendron chinense SchneidII2
DuzhongEucommia ulmoides Oliv.II1
LongdanGentiana manshurica Kitag.III3
Gentiana scabra BgeIII
Gentiana triflora Pall.III
Gentiana regescens Franch.III
HuanglianCoptis chinensis FranchUnique to ChinaII1
Coptis deltoidea C. Y. Cheng et HsiaoVUUnique to ChinaII
Coptis teetoides C. Y. Cheng.II
HoupuMagnolia officinalis Rehd. et WilsIINTUnique to ChinaII1
Magnolia officinalis Rehd. et Wils. var. biloba Rehd. et WilsIIUnique to ChinaII
HuangbaiPhellodendron chinense SchneidII2
ZicaoArnebia euchroma (Royle) JohnstIII1
QingjiaoGentiana macrophylla Pall.III1
Gentiana macrophylla Maxim.III
Gentiana crassicaulis Duthie ex Burk.III
Gentiana dahurica FischIII
ShexiangMoschus berezovskii Flerov.II1
Moschus sifanicus Przewalski.II
Moschus moschiferus Linnaeus.II
ChonglouParis polyphylla Smith var. chinensis (Franch.) HaraII7

NPWP, National Key Protected Wild Plants of China (August 4, 1999); NPWM, National Key Protected Species of Wild Medicinal Materials of China (Dec. 1, 1987); IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature (CR, critically endangered; LC, least concern; EN, endangered; VU, vulnerable; NT, near threatened); UF, usage frequency in DPMs and YPMs.