List Of Medicinal Plant In Malaysia

This e book was successfully launched on 3 november 2015 in conjunction with the 11 th world islamic economic forum wief.

List of medicinal plant in malaysia. Target 2 aims to have a preliminary assessment of the conservation status of all known plant species of. The main aim of this paper is to compile information on plant that is known to be medicinal to the indigenous tribes in peninsular malaysia. However a word of caution. Medical plant herbal malaysia.

It is an electronic book compiling medicinal plants with a highlight on weeds in our first volume. Current trends on studies of medicinal plants of the indigenous tribes and threats to the sustainability of the plants are also discussed. The medicinal plant entrees now number over 950 and the separate lists of plants have been joined together into a tagalog list and an english list for those plants with english designations. This publication is malaysia s first attempt to list indigenous plants into the national red list.

English names are included in the tagalog lists for plants that have not acquired local names. You can only get it at chinese herbalist stores in sarawak or by growing your own. Chinese motherwort is a herb not commonly sold in other parts of the world or even in malaysia. It is composed of a variety of types although they are mainly dipterocarp forests.

With this in mind nature s medicine. This is an alphabetical list of plants used in herbalism. There are an estimated 8 500 species of vascular plants in peninsular malaysia with another 15 000 in the east. There are many medicinal plants that have been used for thousands of years.

Malaysia is a megadiverse country of which two thirds is covered in forest which is believed to be 130million years old. Information is compiled from various sources. This output is one of the many envisaged for the work on threat assessment of native plants of malaysia which will accomplish target 2 of malaysia s national strategy for plant conservation. These plants can now be found in herbal products and as part of the traditional malaysian health care system because of.

The ability to synthesize a wide variety of chemical compounds that are possibly used to perform important biological functions and to defend against attack from predators such as insects fungi and herbivorous mammals is called herbal medicine. A collection of medicinal plants from malaysia s rainforest was created. Hence the conservation of medicinal plants is done by obtaining the medicinal plant material by agriculture methods of cultivation instead of relying on the plants grown naturally in forests. These medicinal plants hold valuable healing attributes.