This ethno botanical study of Malay culture in urban residential area analyzes the aspect of the interrelationship between plants and Malay culture since both provides spiritual connection between people and nature. People rely on plants in many…
This qualitative study aimed to examine cultural differences in knowledge, attitudes and practices related to erectile dysfunction (ED) utilizing focus group discussion
In this study, several Malaysian sea cucumber species that have traditional medicine value were selected and from them, the native bacterial population was isolated.
This study is an attempt to present a holistic Malay medicine practice covering the whole aspects of human life in terms of psychological, emotional, mental and physical. A clear relevance between Malay medicine and the Islamic medicine is also to be…
This is a cross-sectional, descriptive study among Malay women admitted in the antenatal and postnatal ward to determine the prevalence and use of herbal medicines during pregnancy and elemental analysis in the most popular herbs
The use of Traditional/Complementary Medicine
(T/CM) is widespread in developing countries
and is steadilly increasing across the developed
world. \ The World Health Organisation (WHO)
estimated that' In many countries, 80% or more of
the…
This study was to determine the prevalence of use of MTT among Malays for their related diseases and the effectiveness of the treatment in reducing pain.
Plants have been used throughout human history for
food and medicine. However, many plants are toxic, and cannot easily be morphologically distinguished from non-toxic plants. DNA identification solves this problem and is widely used. Nonetheless,…
Traditional healing is a common practice in low and middle income countries such as Malaysia. Eighty percent of Malaysians consult traditional healers or “bomoh” at some time in their life for health-related issues. The purpose of our study was to…
