Medicinal botanical garden

Medicinal botanical garden

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Medicinal botanical garden is a large-scale modern science and Technology Park of traditional Chinese medicine, which focuses on the preservation, research and development of herbal resources, as well as popular science, education and cultural publicity. It is a medicinal plant protection area and a technical center for the development and utilization of medicinal plants.

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Relevant background

There are 11020 species of medicinal plants (including 1208 lower grade plants) in China. These plants are diverse in shape, including arbor, shrub and herb, which are distributed in various ecological environments. A considerable part of them have high ornamental value in addition to medicine. According to statistics, there are 606 kinds of medicinal plants in the Pharmacopoeia of the people's Republic of China (1995 edition), 179 kinds of plants with ornamental value have been included in the Chinese flower classic, accounting for about 30%. According to this calculation, there are more than 3300 kinds of medicinal plants with ornamental value in 11020 kinds of medicinal plants. Therefore, according to the requirements of landscape design, it is entirely possible to build a garden of medicinal plants with the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine culture. Making landscape with medicinal plants is the product of the combination of Chinese garden art and traditional Chinese medicine, which will become a major feature of Chinese garden art and have a positive impact on the world garden.

Traditional Chinese medicine is an important part of Chinese traditional culture. The establishment of Chinese medicine garden is to reflect the rich cultural connotation of traditional Chinese medicine in the way of garden, show the world the long cultural history of China and traditional medicine of various nationalities, and create a beautiful natural environment for people's living space. At the same time, due to the gradual release of medicinal plants in the process of growth has a certain medical effect of chemical substances, has a certain health effect on the human body, can be used as a natural therapy. The centralized cultivation of a wide variety of medicinal plants also provides a good environment and conditions for the research of biological diversity of medicinal plants, the research of resource development and protection, and the teaching of medicinal plants.

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Special botanical garden

Botanical Garden refers to a theme garden with specific theme content, with plants with the same characteristics (species, families, ecological habits, ornamental characteristics, utilization value, etc.) as the main landscape elements, with plant collection, display, research, appreciation as the main, and production as well. Botanical garden is not only the main open garden for botanical garden to collect and ex situ preserve plant germplasm resources, but also an important place for botanical garden to carry out scientific research and popular science education. It can also display the gardening art and regional culture of botanical garden. Medicinal specialty garden is a specialty garden with medicinal plants as the main landscape elements and medicinal culture as the theme.

Medicinal botanical garden as practice teaching base

Setting up a special garden in or near the school, which integrates teaching, scientific research and popular science education, has many functions such as biodiversity protection and plant planting resources preservation, and plays an important role in school construction and teaching.

Medicinal botanical garden as a tourist resort

As a combination of botanical garden and traditional Chinese medicine tourism, this kind of medicinal botanical garden is a new type of tourism product with the development of society.

Famous examples

Beijing medicinal botanical garden

Geographical location and climate

Beijing medicinal botanical garden belongs to Institute of medicinal plants, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. It is located at the foot of Baiwang mountain, a scenic spot in the northwest suburb of Beijing, 10 kilometers away from the urban area. It is 116 ° 25'e and 39 ° 47'n. The altitude is 50 meters. It belongs to warm temperate continental climate, with annual average temperature of 8-12 ℃ and annual precipitation of 600mm.

Development history and resource introduction

Beijing medicinal botanical garden was established in 1984 with the establishment of the Institute of medicinal plants and expanded from the original herbarium Garden (founded in 1955). The existing land area of the whole garden is 20 hectares: 12.5 hectares of exhibition area and teaching practice area, 3 hectares of breeding area, 2.5 hectares of seed preservation area, 2 hectares of introduction and domestication experimental area, 1800 square meters of exhibition greenhouse and 200 square meters of research and experimental greenhouse. A total of 1300 species of medicinal plants (excluding varieties) are collected, and there are large-scale germplasm low-temperature storage (900 species, 1500 seeds) and various professional laboratories . There are 12 scientific and technical personnel engaged in plant classification, horticultural cultivation, plant physiology and biochemistry, genetic breeding, plant protection, germplasm exchange at home and abroad, etc. 22 managers and workers are engaged in the daily production and management of each area in the botanical garden.

exchanges and cooperation

Due to the special status of Chinese herbal medicine in the traditional Chinese medicine, Beijing medicinal botanical garden is becoming more and more familiar and popular. According to incomplete statistics, since 1984, the garden has received nearly 2000 foreign guests, scholars, friends and tourist groups, many of whom are celebrities who have a strong interest in Chinese herbal medicine. It receives more than 3000 professional study visits and technical exchanges from colleges, universities and scientific research institutions every year. As the World Health Organization (who) traditional medicine cooperation center, we are also charged with the task of training personnel for the third world countries. Students from Nepal, North Korea, Thailand and other countries have studied in China, and all of them have achieved satisfactory results.

Achievements and future construction

Beijing medicinal botanical garden is the only professional medicinal botanical garden of Ministry of health and Academy of Medical Sciences. The policy of garden construction is: scientific connotation, garden appearance, focusing on the collection of traditional Chinese medicine commonly used in Pharmacopoeia, anti-aging traditional Chinese medicine, scientific research, germplasm preservation, production, popular science, tourism five in one, all-round development. As a window to the world, Beijing medicinal botanical garden displays a long history of traditional Chinese medicine and rich medicinal plants through a large number of living plant specimens, which plays a role in communicating the research of medicinal plants at home and abroad. We have carried out a comprehensive study of Fritillaria, Hippophae rhamnoides, Polygonum multiflorum, aloe, asparagus, saffron, Thalictrum, Atractylodes lancea, Catharanthus roseus and other groups, and achieved results. Among them, Professor Li Liang won the second prize of science progress award of Ministry of health for "Research on breaking dormancy of Fritillaria and changing one season into two seasons", and was approved to apply for the National Science Progress Award. Beijing medicinal botanical garden has been listed as the largest professional medicinal botanical garden in China in the book "the best of Chinese plants" published by China Friendship Publishing House.

Beijing medicinal botanical garden is making further use of its abundant resources and technology to better serve the departments of scientific research, production, teaching and tourism, and to make our contribution to the display of China's rich resources of Chinese herbal medicine and traditional medical knowledge.

Guangxi Medicinal Herb Garden

Geographical location and climate

Guangxi Medicinal Botanical Garden belongs to the Department of health of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is located in the eastern suburb of Nanning, 8 kilometers away from the urban area. It is located at 108 ° 19 ′ E and 22 ° 516 ′ n. The altitude is 72-113m. It has a subtropical climate with abundant heat, abundant rainfall and distinct dry and wet seasons. The annual average temperature is 21.6 ℃, and the extreme maximum temperature is 40.4 ℃. The extreme minimum temperature is - 2.1 ℃, and the monthly average temperature is above 20 ℃ for seven months. The average temperature in January is 12.8 ℃, and the average maximum temperature in July is 28.3 ℃. The annual sunshine lasts 1827 hours, and the annual precipitation is 1200-1500 mm, mostly from May to September. The annual average relative humidity is 79%.

Development history and resource introduction

Guangxi Medicinal Botanical Garden was founded in 1959. It was called Guangxi pharmaceutical laboratory at that time. In 1963, it was renamed Guangxi Pharmaceutical Research Institute. In 1981, it was officially renamed Guangxi Medicinal Botanical Garden. Over the past 30 years, more than 2130 kinds of medicinal plants and 11 kinds of medicinal animals have been introduced and cultivated. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the pace of development has been accelerated. It has developed from a herbarium garden into a base for scientific research, production, teaching and popular science of Chinese herbal medicine and ethnic medicine. It is also the largest medicinal botanical garden with the most cultivated varieties in the Asia Pacific region.

There are 240 hectares of land in the garden, including 27 hectares of medicinal plant cultivation area, 54 hectares of forest, 27 hectares of river, road and construction land. There are 11 exhibition areas of medicinal materials that have been built and will be built soon.

exchanges and cooperation

Guangxi Medicinal Botanical Garden has contacts with 45 countries and regions in the world, and has seed and seedling exchange relations with botanical gardens in 20 regions of 12 countries. In addition, it also provides experimental materials, seeds and seedlings for scientific research, teaching and production units. In addition, a training center for Chinese herbal medicine was held to cultivate talents of Chinese herbal medicine technology for the society.

Achievements and future development

In the past 30 years, Guangxi Medicinal Botanical Garden has carried out the experimental research on introduction and cultivation, as well as the research on drug development and utilization. Some medicinal plants introduced in our garden have been tested and studied by relevant scientific research institutions, and some drugs with good clinical efficacy have been produced, such as "jiangyanling", "fengwenyao tablet", "Ganyanling", "jiangguzhen" and so on. In addition, we have developed "Nanguo Cola", "Jiaogulan tea", "Guangxi sweet tea" and other health drinks, and achieved good social and economic benefits. In addition, he has published more than 100 academic papers, including cultivation Manual of Panax notoginseng, Atlas of Chinese Materia Medica, cultivation of southern Chinese herbal medicine, China Botanical Garden (Atlas), Encyclopedia of Chinese agriculture. Volume of medicinal plants, high-yield cultivation techniques of rare Chinese herbal medicine, etc

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