Medicinal Plants of Sabah, North Borneo

Researchers in the field of natural product chemistry and pharmacology focus on discovering

new drugs from medicinal plants. The medicinal plants of Sabah (North Borneo), many of which

are found in all of Asia and the Pacific, represent a vast array of resources that could be used

for the discovery of drugs and the development of cosmetics as well as functional food. No other

book focuses on the medicinal plants from this part of the globe in such depth. The author is well

known in natural products and this text will appeal to a global audience in presenting the botanical

description, chemical constituents, pharmacology, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and functional food

potentials of these plants.

Features:

1. Describes in a phylogenetic order the habitats, distributions, botanical descriptions, local

names, uses, chemical constituents, pharmacological activities, and toxic effects of more

than 250 species of medicinal plants of Sabah.

2. Provides a selection of botanical plates of medicinal plants endemic to Sabah, hand-drawn

by the author.

3. Provides comment sections to invite further research on the topic of the development of

drugs, dietary products, and cosmetics from Sabah medicinal plants.

Christophe Wiart was born on 12th of August, 1967 in Saint Malo, France. After his A-levels, he completed his Pharm.D. at the Facultée des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Université Rennes 2 (France) and earned his Ph.D. in Natural Products Chemistry at the Universiti Pertanian Malaysia. He has taught pharmacognosy at the University of Malaya, and elsewhere. Dr. Wiart is the author of Medicinal Plants of the Asia-Pacific: Drugs from the Future? (2006), Medicinal Plants of Asia and the Pacific (2006), Ethnopharmacology of Medicinal Plants: Asia and the Pacific (2006), Medicinal Plants from the East (2010), Medicinal Plants from China, Korea and Japan: Bioresource for Tomorrow’s Drug and Cosmetic Discovery (2012), Lead Compounds from Medicinal Plants for the Treatment of Cancer (2012), Lead Compounds from Medicinal Plants for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases (2013), Medicinal Plants in Asia for Metabolic Syndrome (2018), Medicinal Plants from West Bengal and Bangladesh (2019), Medicinal Plants in Asia and Pacific for Parasitic Infections: Botany, Ethnopharmacology, Molecular Basis, and Future Prospect (2020), Medicinal Plants in Asia and the Pacific for Zoonotic Pandemics (2021).

He has published numerous articles. Dr. Wiart is presently completing a book on the medicinal plants of North Borneo. Other current research interest include the ethnopharmacological study of the medicinal plants of Southeast Asia for the development of herbals and lead therapeutic compounds.