Masyarakat Melayu Sarawak yang merupakan etnik ketiga terbesar di Sarawak kaya dengan khazanah sumber warisan dan budaya. Antaranya ialah amalan-amalan kebudayaannya yang terserlah namun kurang diketahui oleh generasi muda hari ini. Akibat modenisasi…
Masyarakat Melayu Sarawak yang merupakan etnik ketiga terbesar di Sarawak kaya dengan khazanah sumber warisan dan budaya. Antaranya ialah amalan-amalan kebudayaannya yang terserlah namun kurang diketahui oleh generasi muda hari ini. Akibat modenisasi…
Urut Melayu tradisional ialah satu cara perubatan tradisional masyarakat Melayu terutamanya pesakitpesakit saraf, pesakit urat, pesakit selepas bersalin, pesakit strok dan lain-lain lagi untuk keperluan kesihatan
dan kecantikan. Kecenderungan…
The medicinal uses of Centella asiatica goes back to pre-historic times. Discovery of any new drug from a
plant can benefit a lot if ethnomedicinal uses of the plant from various sources are documented and compared,
and relevant scientific studies…
Treatment of malaria infection has becoming extremely challenging due to widespread resistance of the parasite towards available antimalarial drugs. In the present
study, we investigated the antimalarial activity of five local Malaysian medicinal…
The total phenolic contents (TPC) and antioxidant activities of five popular Malay raw saladsor Ulam were investigated using DPPH radical scavenging and reducing ferric ion antioxidant power(FRAP) assays. The Ulam studied were the leaves of Cosmos…
Zingiberaceae rhizomes commonly used in the Malaysian traditional medicine were screened for anti-tumour promoter activity using the short-term assay of inhibition of 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate (TPA)-induced Epstein-Barr virus early…