Table 5.
Selected medicinal plants used for treating Gaoligongshan pigs’ common diseases.
| Voucher No. | Family | Scientific Name | Local Name |
Parts Consumed |
Life Form |
Consumed Time | Medicinal Efficacy for Pig | Method of Uses |
Attending Disease |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LS156 | Caprifoliaceae | Lonicera japonica Thunb. | Jin yin hua |
Flowers | Shrub | Summer | Clearing heat and detoxicating, diminish inflammation and detumescence | Decoct medicinal herbs | Virus encephalitis |
| LH157 | Compositae | Pseudognaphalium affine (D. Don) Anderberg | Huang hua |
The whole plant | Herb | Except the winter |
Antitussive and expectorant effects, bring down a fever, wound healing | Decoct medicinal herbs | Diseases caused by cold factors |
| LH158 | Compositae |
Artemisia yunnanensis J. F. Jeffrey ex Diels |
Ye ba hao |
Aerial part | Herb | All available time | Clearing heat and detoxicating, bring down a fever | Decoct medicinal herbs | Diseases caused by cold factors |
| LH058 | Compositae | Bidens pilosa L. | Yang cha cao |
The whole plant | Herb | Except the winter |
Clearing heat and detoxicating, promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, antidiarrheal, reducing inflammation, venomous snake bite, traumatic injury | Decoct medicinal herbs | Diarrhoea |
| LH159 | Compositae | Artemisia carvifolia Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb. | Hao zi | The whole plant | Herb | All available time | Clearing heat and detoxicating, relieving summer-heat, dispelling wind and arresting itching | Decoct medicinal herbs | Diarrhoea |
| LT160 | Cornaceae | Cornus kousa F. Buerger ex Hance | Huo shan li zhi |
Flowers and leaves | Tree | All available time | Antidiarrheal | Decoct medicinal herbs | Diarrhoea |
| LH108 | Equisetaceae | Equisetum ramosissimum subsp. debile (Roxb. ex Vauch.) Hauke | Jie jie cao |
The whole plant | Herb | All available time | Clearing heat and detoxicating, reduce inflammation, stop pain and relieve itching | Decoct medicinal herbs | Diseases caused by cold factors |
| LH164 | Lamiaceae | Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi | / | Rootstock | Herb | All available time | Heat-clearing and damp-drying drug, purging intense heat and detonicating, hemostasis, antidiarrheal, miscarriage prevention | Decoct medicinal herbs | Vesicular exanthema |
| LH014 | Plantaginaceae | Plantago depressa Willd. | Lai ha ma ye |
The whole plant | Herb | Except the winter |
Clearing heat and detoxicating, diminish inflammation and diuresis | Decoct medicinal herbs | Virus nephritis |
| LH161 | Polygonaceae | Rheum palmatum L. | Da huang |
Roots | Herb | All available time | Purging heat and bowels, clearing heat and detoxicating, hemostasis |
Decoct medicinal herbs | Vesicular exanthema |
| LH162 | Ranunculaceae | Coptis teeta Wall. | / | Roots | Herb | All available time | Clearing heat and detoxicating, diminish inflammation and detumescence | Decoct medicinal herbs | Virus encephalitis and vesicular exanthema |
| LS165 | Rubiaceae | Gardenia jasminoides Ellis | / | Fruits | Shrub | Autumn | Reducing fever and causing diuresis, cool the blood and eliminating stasis, detoxicate |
Decoct medicinal herbs | Vesicular exanthema |
| LT166 | Rutaceae | Phellodendron chinense Schneid. | Huang bai |
Bark | Tree | All available time | Clearing hectic heat, purging intense heat and detonicating, antibacterial |
Decoct medicinal herbs | Vesicular exanthema |