Abstract
Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, located in southeast Guizhou, China, harbors rich biodiversity. As one of the indigenous minorities, the Miao people rely on medicinal plants for self-medication. However, during this era most traditional knowledge is facing the danger of disappearing and biodiversity is being lost. This has created a method to realize the information dissemination, the application of computerized databases. Database system establishing and data mining of traditional medicinal plants are also beneficial for ethnomedicinal researches. Thus, on the basis of top-level design, an ethnobotanical research focused on Miao medicinal plants in Guizhou was conducted during 2016 and 2017. Their names, parts used, and values were documented. By using Microsoft Windows 2003 server, B/S system structure, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Network search system, an open database system was designed and established. A total of five modules were shown on the home page, including Homepage, Species identification, Data retrieval, Plant lists, and User Center. All users could click on the corresponding module to get the information according to their own requirements. This new database system was designed to support a project evaluating the biodiversity of Miao medicinal plants. The software used to create the database is open source freely available which will be convenient for inquiring and statistics, and also could potentially be applied to other ethnobotanically driven natural product collection and drug discovery programs.
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We are very grateful to the Miao people who provided valuable information about medicinal plants. We would like to thank College of Information Engineering at Minzu University of China for providing database technique. Without their contribution, this study would have been impossible. This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31761143001, 31870316, 31161140345 & 31660083), the Key Laboratory of Ethnomedicine (MinzuUniversity of China) of Ministry of Education of China (KLEM-ZZ201806), Minzu University of China (Collaborative Innovation Center for Ethnic Minority Development, yldxxk201819), Ministry of Education of China and State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs of China (B08044)
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Liu, S., Liu, W., Zhang, B., Lei, Q., Zhou, J., Long, C. (2020). Structure Design and Establishment of Database Application System for Miao Medicinal Plants in Guizhou Province, China. In: Khasim, S.M., Long, C., Thammasiri, K., Lutken, H. (eds) Medicinal Plants: Biodiversity, Sustainable Utilization and Conservation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1636-8_7
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