广西靖西端午节药市民族药用植物数据库系统的设计与构建

Database establishment of ethnomedicinal plants during Dragon-Boat Festival in Jingxi, Guangxi, China

关键词:  数据库, 民族药物学, 民族植物学, 药用植物, 传统药用知识

Key words:  database, ethnopharmacology, ethnobotany, medicinal plants, traditional medicinal knowledge

摘要:

药用植物数据库的建立与相关数据挖掘,对民族药物学的研究具有重要意义。该研究在顶层设计的基础上,对广西靖西端午节药市及周边地区实地调查时获得的药用植物标本和照片进行形态学特征、药用价值、民族传统利用方式等信息的整理,由此设计和建立开放的民族药用植物数据库系统。主要应用Microsoft Office Access和Java编程对数据进行管理、查询和统计,通过提取药用植物特征的不同权值来计算不同科属和类别之间的相似度。结果表明:该数据库系统能以柱状图或饼状图的形式将数据之间的关系直观地展示出来,从而反映出各种植物特征和各种功能属性之间的联系。同时该数据库系统还可以用于数据的管理、检索和查询相关民族药用植物的背景资料、药用价值等信息,并能进行相应的统计分析,有利于挖掘数据和发现新线索。

Abstract:

Database system establishing and data mining of traditional medicinal plants are beneficial for ethnopharmacological researches. On the basis of top-level design, we firstly systemized the relevant information of medicinal plants collected in the medicinal market during the Dragon-Boat Festival in Jingxi County, Guangxi, Southwest China. The information included morphological information, medicinal value, traditional usages and others of medicinal plants. By using Microsoft Office Access and Java Programming, an open database system was designed and built. Except for some simple algorithm of query and statistics, we extracted and calculated different weight values from different features of medicinal plants so that we could investigate the relationship among different types of medicinal plants. The results of analysis can be displayed directly as bar charts and pie charts. This database system can not only be used for efficient search on information of medicinal plants, but also profoundly do some statistical analysis to greatly increase the possibility of knowledge discovery from this database.