• The Korea Journal of Herbology
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.15-26
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• 2007

Objectives : The purpose of this study is to analyze the origin plants, the habitat and the characteristics of the origin-plants of the medicine herbs belong to Araceae. Methods : To achieve the purpose of this study 48 bibliographies about 4 kinds of herbs belong to Araceae were examined. The examination was focused on the origin plants, habitat, the efficacy. Standing on this analysis the list and characteristics of the origin-plants were presented. Results : The results indicated that 1. In the original plants of 4 kinds of herbs, there were 27 species of scientific name totally, 25 species belonged to Araceae, and 2 species didn't. The origin plants of Pinelliae rhizoma were 3 species of different family plant, 16 species for Arisaematis Rhizoma, 2 species for Typhoni Rhizoma, and 6 species for Acori Graminei Rhizoma. 2. In the view of its authenticity, there was one kind of genuine species, 2 species of substitutes in the origin plants of Pinelliae Rhizoma, 14 kinds of genuine species, 2 species of substitutes in the origin plants of Arisaematis Rhizoma, and Whole origin plants of Typhoni Rhizoma, Acori Graminei Rhizoma were genuine species. 3. According to the habitat, there were 15 species distributed in Korea, China and so on. And 16 species were distributed in Korea, 25 species were of foreign origin. 1 species was unknown. 4. The each efficacy of origin plants were reported in the main subject Conclusions : Among the 4 medicinal herbs in the commonly using family Araceae, there were 27 origin plants(25 species belong to Araceae, and 2 species doesn't), so the number of origin plants are almost 6.75 times compared with the cases of the herbal name. Also, according to the habitat, approximately 59.3% of origin plants were producted in Korea, and approximately 92.6% of origin plants were of foreign origin.