1st Edition

Medicinal Plants of Borneo

Edited By Simon Gibbons, Stephen P. Teo Copyright 2021
190 Pages 34 Color & 81 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

190 Pages 34 Color & 81 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

190 Pages 34 Color & 81 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

The rich biodiversity of Borneo provides many useful plants for medicinal purposes. Written by experts in the field, Medicinal Plants of Borneo provides a guide and introduction to the medicinal plants from Borneo used traditionally as well as plants whose medicinal uses have been recently discovered. These include anti-HIV plants – such as Calophyllum lanigerum (calanolide A) – and... Read more

1. Anti-Malarial Plants

Farid Kuswantoro and Stephen P. Teo

2. Anti-Fungal Plants

Stephen P. Teo

3. Anti-Mycobacterial Plants

Stephen P. Teo

4. Anti-Viral Plants

Stephen P. Teo

5. Anti-Cancer Plants

Farid Kuswantoro and Stephen P. Teo

6. Anti-Diabetic Plants

Farid Kuswantoro and Stephen P. Teo

7. Plants for Fever Remedy

Farid Kuswantoro

8. Anti-Hypertensive Plants

Stephen P. Teo

9. Anti-Diarrhoeal Plants

Irawan Wijaya Kusuma

10. Plants for Eye-Related Diseases

Stephen P. Teo

11. Plants Used in Dental Treatment

Stephen P. Teo

12. Poisonous Plants Used as Blowpipe Dart

Stephen P. Teo

13. Plants Used to Treat Arthritis

Meekiong Kalu and Mohd Razip Asaruddin

14. Plants Used for Wound Healing

Tukirin Pratomidhardjo

Biography

Simon Gibbons is a Professor of Medicinal Phytochemistry at the School of Pharmacy, University College London (UCL). Among his research interests are antibacterial plant natural products, natural product bacterial resistance modifying agents, the chemistry and pharmacology of novel psychoactive substances and drugs of abuse and phytochemistry of herbal drugs. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Phytochemistry Letters,[2] and currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the book series Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products ("Zechmeister"; Springer Verlag, Vienna) and is a member of the Editorial Boards of the journals Natural Product Reports, Planta Medica, Phytochemistry Reviews, Phytochemical Analysis, Phytotherapy Research,[3] Fitoterapia, Pharmaceutica Scientia and Chinese Journal of Natural Medicine.

Stephen P. Teo is attached to the Forest Department Sarawak and has more than two decades of experience working in the department. His interest is in the plant biodiversity of Borneo and has published papers and or books on plant taxonomy, ecology and conservation, economic plants, pharmacognosy and phytochemistry as well as undertaking extensive field work throughout Borneo.