Objective: To summarize and record medicinal plant resources with ethnic and regional characteristics and application experience through an ethnobotany research on Lisu nationality medicinal market in Dechang county

Sichuan province

during the Dragon-Boat festival

so as to develop and protect Lisu ethnic traditional medicine culture. Method: Literature research

field survey and key informant interview

specimen collection and plant taxonomy identification were performed on the basis of ethnobotanical theory and research method. Result: Lisu nationality medicinal market during the Dragon-Boat festival provided a wide variety of medicinal materials. Totally 106 herbal medicines

from which 77 medical animals and plants were identified into 42 families and 70 genera and documented in the present paper

including names (eg. local name if available)

origin

medicinal part

purpose and processing methods. Suggestions for sustainable development of the traditional medicinal market and medicine of Lisu nationality in Dechang were proposed. Conclusion: The Dragon-Boat festival medicinal market is a special traditional cultural phenomenong in southwest China

with a history of more than 500 years in the Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture

Sichuan province.Lisu nationality medicinal market duirng the Dragon-Boat festival is recognized as a state-level intangible cultural heritage of Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture

presents profound ethnic characteristics and wide variety of medicinal plants

and gathers abundant medical knowledge and experience accumulated by local people during struggling with diseases. Compared with traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)

Lisu nationality medicinal market during the Dragon-Boat festival has its distinct features

and places emphasis on local herbs

seasonal herbs

fresh herbs and single-herb prescriptions; Lisu nationality medicines have different medicinal parts from TCM

and give priority to dietary therapy

with medicated bath and external application as complementary therapies; what's more

they focus on effects of expelling wind-damp

promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis and treating traumatic injury. This article provided first-hand materials for systematic studies on characteristics of Lisu ethnic medicines

which is of great significance to the inheritance and development of the traditional Lisu ethnic medicine culture.