Plants used in traditional medicine for treatment of malaria by Tetunethnic people in West Timor Indonesia
Plants used in traditional medicine for treatment of malaria by Tetunethnic people in West Timor Indonesia作者机构：Department of Chemistry Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Widya Mandira Catholic University Department of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry Faculty of Pharmacy Airlangga University
出 版 物：《Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine》 (亚太热带医药杂志（英文版）)
年 卷 期：2018年第11卷第11期
页 面：630-637页
核心收录：
学科分类：1007[医学-药学(可授医学、理学学位)] 100703[医学-生药学] 1002[医学-临床医学] 10[医学]
基 金：financially supported by Ministry of Research Technology and Higher Education Republic of Indonesia(Research Contract No.0668/K8/KM/2018)
主 题：Traditional medicine Medicinal plant Malaria Tetun ethnic Timor
摘 要：To document the medicinal plants used for the treatment of malaria by the Tetun ethnic people in West Timor–Indonesia. Methods: The ethnobotany and anthropology methods were used in the field surveys. Ninety four informants from 29 villages of 15 sub-districts in Belu and Malaka were interviewed since April to December 2017. Medicinal plants specimen were collected from the field and identified according to taxonomic methods. Results: Ninety six medicinal plants species belong to 41 families were found to be used by the Tetun ethnic people in their traditional medicine for the treatment of malaria. These plants have been used in various formulas for drinking, massage, bath, inhalation or cataplasm. Strychnos ligustrina, Calotropis gigantea, Cleome rutidosperma, Physalis angulata, Alstonia spectabilis, Carica papaya, Melia azedarach, Alstonia scholaris, Jatropha curcas, Garuga floribunda, and Tamarindus indicawere the most cited plants. Conclusions: The documented plants are valuable sources for the future development of new drugs and strategies to support malaria eliminating programs that are culturally acceptable in these areas.
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