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(PKC) is a valuable medicinal herb native to Yunnan, China, but its yield and quality are severely threatened by root rot. To elucidate the rhizosphere microbial dynamics associated with this disease and to identify location-transcending patterns, we collected rhizosphere soils from healthy and diseased PKC plants at three planting bases in Lincang, Qujing, and Kunming. Soil properties were measured, and bacterial (16S rRNA) and fungal (ITS) communities were characterized by amplicon sequencing. Geographic origin emerged as the dominant factor associated with microbial community structure, with soil moisture, organic matter, and nutrients all showing significant associations. The effect of disease on microbial diversity was site-specific. Nevertheless, LEfSe analysis identified cross-location-consistent indicator genera: Acidiferrimicrobium and HSB_OF53_F07 were enriched in healthy soils, while Burkholderia-Caballeronia-Paraburkholderia and Rhodanobacter were enriched in diseased samples. At the trophic mode level, a consistent pattern was observed: diseased rhizosphere soils had higher relative abundance of pathotrophic fungi and lower abundance of symbiotrophic fungi compared to healthy soils. However, at the finer guild level, no individual guild showed statistically significant differences after FDR correction. Co-occurrence network analysis revealed a striking structural reorganization: healthy plants harbored a fungus-dominated network (57.04% fungi), whereas diseased plants shifted to a bacterium-dominated network (55.71% bacteria), accompanied by an increased proportion of negative correlations. Redundancy analysis (RDA) and Mantel tests further confirmed that soil physicochemical properties, rather than health status, were the primary factors associated with microbial community variation (Mantel\u2019s r = 0.725 for bacteria, 0.768 for fungi). Collectively, this study provides the first systematic evidence of cross-location common microbial shifts and network reorganization associated with PKC root rot. 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