Investigation And Analysis On Medicinal Plant Resources In Fuping County

Fuping County is the key county in the fourth national investigation of traditional Chinese medicine resource,where has a lot of medicinal plant resources. This research made an analysis on the species,distribution, species diversity,reserves,protection urgency of the wild medicinal plant resources, and cultivation medicinal plants’ species, distribution, area and production and traditional medicinal knowledge in the civilians by collecting literature, medicinal plant resources investigation and Indoor statistics. Put forward some suggestions on the protection and sustainable utilization of medicinal plant resources in order to provide a basis for the medicinal plant resources’ protection, artificial cultivation and the development and utilization of Fuping County. The main results are as follows:1 Wild medicinal plants found in Fuping County are 593 species belonging to 349 genera and 101 families. in which 2 species, 2 genera and 2 families are fungi; 1 species is lichen; 1 species is bryophytes; 12 species, 9 genera and 7 families are fern; 3 species, 3 genera and 2 families are gymnosperm; 574 species, 333 genera and 88 families are angiosperm, Wild medicinal plants accounted for 77.08% of the families, 73.56% of the genera and 75.93% of the species in Hebei Province primary key medicinal plants. The results show that Fuping County occupies very important position in the whole province of wild medicinal plant resources,it’s main flora is temperate flora, and the species diversity is high.2 In terms of the distribution of wild medicinal plants, Chengnanzhuang is the most,there are 108 species,and the second one is Tianshengqiao,which has 106 species,Beiguoyuan is the least, which only has 25 species. The main Areal-types of the World Families of Seed Plants in Fuping County is Wide spread, which has 39 families,accounting for 43.33% of total families; The second one is Pantropical distribution, which has 22 families; Endemic to China are two families, namely Eucommiaceae and Ginkgoaceae.3 The wild medicinal plants in Fuping County have a wide variety of biotype, medicinal parts, properties and taste of herbal medicines, toxicities, efficacies and so on. The biotype have 7 kinds of types, they are 1~2 years raw herbs, perennial herbs, herb vine and so on; the medicinal parts can be divided into 10 types, they are the root, rhizome, stem rattan, leather, leafy, etc; the properties of herbal medicines can be divided into cold, hot, warm, cool,and it also have a little bit cold, a little bit warm and lukewarm medicine; the taste of herbal medicines can be divided into Sour, bitter, sweet, spicy, salty, astringency and mild; there are 71 species of medicinal plant which have toxicities; the efficacy of wild medicinal plants can be divided into 20 types, they are the divergent wind, clearing heat, the diarrhea, dispel rheumatism, damp dispersing herbs and so on.4 To estimation the reserves for the medicinal plants recorded in the "Chinese pharmacopoeia", The results show that Leonuri herba who has 5528.66 tons is the most wild medicinal plant in Fuping County, reserves in more than 1000 tons of wild medicinal plants are 11 species, for example, Schizonepetae herba, Sanguisorbae radix, Zanthoxyli pericarpium, Sanguisorba and Chinese prickly ash. Gentiana macrophylla only has 0.84 tons is the least one. Using the method of reserves coefficient etc 7 indicators to analyze the wild medicinal plants’ protection urgency in Fuping County, results show that, there are 13 species wild medicinal plants which are badly in need of protection, 49 species need to moderate protection and 531 species need to general protection.5 The cultivation of medicinal plants in Fuping County has 17 species, like Scutellaria baicalensis, Platycodon grandiflorum, Codonopsis pilosula, Bupleurum chinense. Scutellaria baicalensis has the Planting area and production, there are 248.33 hectares and 1117.68 tons. Chengnanzhuang has the largest cultivation area, 92.41 hectare, and contains 12 kinds of the cultivated varieties. Through the traditional medicinal prescription survey, we find 36 kinds of folk prescriptions, involving 31 kinds medicine.6 This paper puts forward some suggestions like establish the information system of wild medicinal plant, strengthen the wild tending and cultivation technology research, create protection zone for the wild medicinal plant and other wild medicinal plant resources protection and sustainable utilization suggestions; formulates plans for the development of medicinal plants cultivation, determine the suitable cultivars, promote science and technology support, cultivation of medicinal plants’ standardization and industrialization development led by the Chinese herbal medicine enterprises and so on.