Women's wellness in the mountains: An exploration of medicinal plants among tibeto-burman groups in Thailand.

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: This study offers valuable insight into the traditional healing practices of women's healthcare within four Tibeto-Burman groups. By focusing on women's wellness, the research sheds light on the often-neglected yet significant contributions made by women in the field of traditional medicine.

Aims Of The Study: The study seeks to address the gap of studies on the ethnobotany of women healthcare of the Tibeto-Burman groups in Thailand and to analyst the factors that could affect the diversity of ethnobotanical knowledge.

Medicinal plant knowledge and its erosion among the Mien (Yao) in northern Thailand.

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: We studied local knowledge and actual uses of medicinal plants among the Mien in northern Thailand, documenting traditional medical practices and its transfer between generations.

Aim Of The Study: With the assumption that discrepancies between knowledge and actual use represent knowledge erosion, we studied whether actual use of medicinal plants corresponded to people's knowledge of such uses.

Materials And Methods: We used local knowledge from four specialist informants as the domain for semi-structured interviews with 34 randomly selected non-specialist informants.