As cited in Meor Ahmad Nizam 2003 said that traditional medicine in malay community are practiced by elders, nmedicine men, rural and native peoples. They are assumed to know about traditional medicine and their medicinal plants. However the common name used to identify plants may differ in different localities. Every district has differences in local and common name.
The unsystematic identification and verification in naming of forest plants used by traditional medicinal practitionars in malay traditional medicine. The medicinal plats are mostly used in rural areas compared in urban areas. Moast of the society where lives in urban areas do not know about medicines plants and traditional medicine. Traditional medicine have a much questionable about its effective, quality and their efficiency compared to modern medicine which have scientific method for preparation and its can get easily in the market such as pharmacy and clinic.
Diseases and illness may be retalted with physical and spiritual. The people beiieved and confident with medicinal practices, which practiced by mu’alij and bomoh.
The malay traditional medicine practitioner depend on their knowledge and memory where continued from their family or generation. People approve the herbs remedial because its have advantages to cured much kind of diseases and illness with the bless by Allah.
1.3.1 Main objective
The main objective of this study is to to gain an insight on herbs in hilly forest stand at bukit tapah lanchang temerloh phg darul makmur
1.3.2 Specific objectives
i. to scientifically identification the herbs in hilly forest at bukit tapah
ii. to classify the medicinal herbs thru taxonomy
ii. and the methods of preparation for herbs usage
2.0 Literature review
As cited in meor ahmad nizam 2003 said that traditional medicine is a science or practice in medicine and healthcare, which has been going on for generation to generation.. It is imparted thru the verbal and written forms as well as, thru the practiced and belief of a community. This science is diveided into two aspect that are sopiritual and empirical. Traditional herbs medicines have evolved in their social and cultural setting through various atages to the rpesent. In some continental regions, traditional medicine has developed into well documentation and formally established system regukarly used by large parts of the populations. In island community, traditional medicines have remain more confined to smaller cultural groups relatively contained within their community and linguistic environments. The herbs medicine also combine with the spell reading of ayatul qur’an with the iman to Allah who will cures the disease, inshaAllah.
2.1 Link between traditional and modern medicine
Actually Traditional and modern medicine share a commong resources. They both utilize plants, animal, microorganism or minerals. These resources may be found either on and or in the sea.
As cited in Haliza 1996 said that the traditional medicine and modern medicine originates resource from similar raw reasources. These may be dried herbs or parts of plants, animals, the extract of which is used in treatments. In traditional medicines, these ingredients are eaten directly or boiled to extract the active chemical compounds in concentrated form. Malaysia the developing country is rich with the natural herbs resources inhabited inside the rain forest stand especially in meranti forest stand.
Traditional and alternative medicines in Malaysia appear to be finding appreciation by some modern practitioner, as they seek to understand their patient’s expectations and treatment seeking behavior. A clinician provides hid own interface with colleagues to determine their assessment of the alternative herbs medicinal treatment services used by country mu’alij who utilize both traditional and modern health care despite professional misgivings. It is clear that patients have their own reasons for doing so.
The explainations for this are provided partly from traditional practices as comformed by scientific research evidences, for example as cited in Azimahtol Hawariah’s 1994 said that the herbs plant derive for medicinal treatment such as the natural anticarcinogen products in the treatment of malignancies.
The production of traditional medical herb products in Malaysia has taken on such vital, clinically and economically that the government has established guidelines for safety pertaining to appealing and challenging with its strong economic and treatment implication. As cited in Nik Aziz 1999 focus on the key issues related to the vital pharmacological aspects in the determination of safe products for producers, sellers and particularly users of the products of traditional preparation.