In the local Malaysian context, herbal plants such as Eurycoma longifolia (Tongkat Ali), Orthosiphon stamineus (MisaiKucing), Ficus deltoidea (Mas Cotek), Zingiber officinale (Halia Bara) and Barringtonia racemosa (Putat) are known and widely used…
Herbal medicines are in great demand for preliminary health care due to their wide medicinal values without any side effects. Since many species are used in the system of traditional medicine, scientists have great …
Supyan Hussin, Nur Azian Ab Rahman, Low Kok On & Mostafa Kamal Mokhtar. 2018. Bridging modern medicine with Islamic complementary medicine: preliminary attempts in Malaysian Context. Advanced Science Letters. Vol. 24, 4820–4823.
Many local plants are used in Malaysian traditional medicine to treat respiratory diseases including symptoms of tuberculosis. The aim of the study was to screen 78 plant extracts from 70 Malaysian plant species used in traditional medicine to treat…
In recent times the basic understanding, perceptions and CAM use among undergraduate health
sciences students have become a topic of interest. This study was aimed to investigate the understanding,
perceptions and self-use of CAM among pharmacy…
Piper betle L., more commonly known as betel or local name of Sirih, belongs to the family Piperaceae. Previous research has shown that the leaves of P. betle possess tremendous beneficial effects including antimicrobial, antioxidant,…
This study assessed effects of Centella asiatica extract on blood pressure and heart rate (HR) of N-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) induced hypertensive rats.
