Abstract
This study surveyed the most commonly observed plants at 40 pond wetlands in rural villages in Korea and assessed their use patterns in traditional medicine (TM) with reference to the contents of the Korea Traditional Knowledge Portal (KTKP). In this survey, 457 taxa in 108 families were identified. For these, there are use patterns in TM for 314 taxa; overall, 68.8% of the surveyed plants have uses in TM. The 314 taxa that have applications in TM involve 596 types of disease treatment and 771 types of efficacy. On average, for each taxon, there are 4.0 types of efficacy and 6.6 types of disease treatment. TM from 210 taxa have been described as applied to organs in 10 regions of the body: liver 123, lung 82, spleen 57, stomach 57, heart 45, large intestine 43, kidney 40, bladder 23, small intestine 16, and gall bladder 8. The results of this study will help support the conservation of pond wetlands that provide national biodiversity and various ecosystem services, by increasing the recognized value of pond wetlands even when they are no longer used in farming. Thus, this study can support educational materials for eco-experience and can be applied in the conservation of Korean pond wetlands.
Highlights
As rural and agricultural landscapes have given rise to various sustainable cultural spaces, land uses have developed to support traditional human activities [1]
Plants in pond wetlands were investigated, and their use patterns in traditional medicine (TM) were analyzed with the aim of applying this knowledge in education
This paper provides the results of a survey of the plants commonly found at 40 pond wetlands in rural areas of Korea and it assessed the TM use of these plants
Summary
As rural and agricultural landscapes have given rise to various sustainable cultural spaces, land uses have developed to support traditional human activities [1]. There is an interface between nature and culture, characterized by factors of the environment, ecology, natural resources, biodiversity, landscape, land uses, and human culture [2,3,4,5,6,7]. Korea’s main food staple is rice, with extensive paddy fields and water required for its production. All crops produced in rural areas were challenged by a lack of water. For this reason, Korea’s agricultural landscape has included many pond wetlands [8,9]
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