Medicinal plants now are a part of the community's traditional medicine system. The use these medicinal needs to be continuously encouraged in order improve public health based on local wisdom community. purpose this study was record and analyze by Banyadu Dayak tribe Teriak Village Bengkayang Regency. This research conducted using survey method, where data collection carried out conducting int...

This study investigated the cytotoxicity of 55 species of plants. Each plant was rated as medicinal, or nonmedicinal based on the existing literature. About 79% of the medicinal plants showed some cytotoxicity, while 75% of the nonmedicinal plants showed bioactivity. It appears that Asteraceae, Labiatae, Pinaceae, and Chenopodiaceae were particularly active against human cervical cancer cells. ...

This paper provides significant ethnobotanical information on pharmaceutical plant uses, where some degree of acculturation exists, so that there is urgency in recording such data. The aim of this work is to catalogue, document, and make known the uses of plants for folk medicine in Dehloran and Abdanan districts, Ilam Province, Iran. An analysis was made of the species used, parts of the plant...

We report on the isolation and structural determination of and synthetic studies with constituents of the West African medicinal plants Tabernaemontan glandulosa, Carissa edulis (Apocynaceae), Canthium subcordatum (Rubiaceae), Hexalobus crispiflorus (Annonaceae), Uvaria elliotiana (Annonaceae), Annonidium manii (Annonaceae), Cochlospermum planchonii (Cochlospermaceae) and Iboza riparia (Labiata...

This study focuses on the characterization of morphological and anatomical traits of Orthosiphon stamineus which belongs to the Lamiaceae family. Orthosiphon stamineus, better known as “Misai Kucing” or “cats whiskers” by the locals, contained active phenolics compounds such as flavanoids. Despite its wide usage as a medicinal plant, information regarding Orthosiphon stamineus specific developm...

Herbs and spices have been used since ancient times to improve the sensory characteristics of food, to act as preservatives and for their nutritional and healthy properties. Herbs and spices are generally recognized as safe (GRAS) and are excellent substitutes for chemical additives. Essential oils are mixtures of volatile compounds obtained, mainly by steam distillation, from medicinal and aro...

Diabetes mellitus is one of the major health problems in Africa. The conventional oral synthetic antidiabetic drugs available to manage the disease are costly and not readily affordable to the majority of the affected population. Interestingly, the continent is endowed with a tremendous number of medicinal plants that have been explored for their folkloric treatment of diabetes mellitus. Scient...