PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a harvest method of medical plants, capable of harvesting the medical plants whose underground parts are used as raw materials for medical products such as Glycyrrhiza, and whose underground parts are extending in a complicated state and widely in the underground, efficiently and easily.SOLUTION: Plural continuous notches are formed on a soil where the medical plants are grown, and the ground parts of the medical plants related to the notches in the soil, are cut (cutting step). Then, the soil on which the notches are formed is dug (digging step), and the ground parts in the dug soil are collected (collecting step).COPYRIGHT: (C)2016,JPO&INPIT【課題】カンゾウ属植物のように、地下部が医薬品等の原料として利用される薬用植物であって当該地下部が地中で複雑かつ広範に発達するものの当該地下部を簡便且つ効率的に収穫することができる薬用植物の収穫方法を提供する。【解決手段】まず、薬用植物が生育している土壌に複数の連続した切込みを入れ、土壌中の当該切込み部に係る薬用植物の地下部を切断する(切断工程)。次いで、当該切込みが入れられた土壌を堀上げ(堀上げ工程)、堀上げた土壌中の地下部を回収する(回収工程)。【選択図】図3
