Use of plants figuring in Thai art and culture : Conservation and development of plants with Thai cultural values
1994
Orathai Pholdee (Kasetsart Univ., Bangkok (Thailand). Faculty of Humanities. Dept. of Languages)
Objective of this study is to present the uses of plants that figure in Thai art and culture through research in pharmacopoeia and manuals of herbal medicine. Many such plants are useful. Those from the prehistoric period include Terminalia chebula, Terminalia belerica, Canarium kerrii and Madhuca grandiflora. Those mentioned in lives of the Buddha include Shorea siamensis, Eugenia cumini; Barringtonia acutangula, Crataeva erythrocarpa, Acacia catechu, and Azadirachta indica. Those mentioned in The Trai Phum Phra Ruang of the Sukhothai Period include Cinnamomum porrectum, Mansonia gagei, Aquilaria crassna, Erythrinaorientalis, Calophyllum inophyllum, Melodorum fructicosum, and Micheliachampaca. Those found in The Lilit Phra Lo of the early Ayutthaya Period include Amoora polystachya, Ochna wallichl, Lannea grandis, Alangiumsalviifolium, Hopea odorata, Shorea roxburghii and Tectona grandis. Those in the writings of Jao Fa Thammathibet of the late Ayutthaya Period include Shorea obtusa, Cratoxylum maingayi; Hydnocarpus anthelminthicus, Bixaorellana and Millingtonia hortensis. Plants used in making Thai musical instruments include Dalbergia cochinchinensis, Dalbergia oliveri, Dalbergiacultrata, Afzelia xylocarpa, Diospros mollis and Wrightia tomentosa.
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