Malásia: Sandakan Rainforest Park - II - plantas medicinais

Introduction

Plants from the forest have been used as healing agents since time immemorial. Of the 350,000 species of higher plants in the world, about 35,000 (up to 70,000) are used worldwide for medicinal purposes (Lewington). The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that about 80% of the total population in developing countries use plants as source of medicines.

Tropical forests represent nature's main storehouse of natural resources and raw materials for modern medicine. Plants alone offer a host of compounds which have anti-bacterial, anti-malarial, anti-fungal and many other therapeutic properties.In Sabah there are at least 1,300 species of medicinal plants (Kulip, 2004).

Dillenia excelsa

Stenochalena palustris

Homolanthus populneus

Curculigo latifolia

Smilax officinalis

By: Julius Kulip & Julius Kodoh

Link:
http://www.sandakanrfp.sabah.gov.my/medicinal%20plants.htm