Ethnomedicinal value of karst paddy weeds: insights from Zhuang communities in Jingxi, China
Long Chen, Yujian Liu, Xuan Fan, Renchuan Hu, Shi Qi, Haiou Liu, Yujing Liu · 2025
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Long Chen and co-authors catalogued the healing weeds of rice paddies in southwest China in this 2025 study. Their hosts were Zhuang communities in Jingxi, a karst region rich in plant life. Farmers usually treat paddy weeds as pests to spray away, but local healers treat many as medicine.
The team interviewed 160 herbalists and villagers and collected plants from the field ridges. They recorded 154 weed species with medicinal use, across sixty plant families. Most of those species appear in no national pharmacopoeia. Careful scoring checked how widely each use was shared and trusted. The authors argue these weeds are a resource to manage, not just a problem to kill.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Long Chen, Yujian Liu, Xuan Fan, Renchuan Hu, Shi Qi, Haiou Liu, Yujing Liu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 86 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |