Herbs & Plants

Medicinal plants and herbs are substitutes for modern medicine and have been widely used by people around the world. Their resources are applied in both traditional and modern preparations. Since the herbs and plants products do not use chemical and synthetic drugs, more people have begun to use natural products as remedies for treating or preventing diseases.


The rainforest in Borneo, known as the world’s oldest rainforest has an estimated 12,500 species of seed plants (Bidin and Latif, 1995) of which 2,000 species have been claimed to have medicinal properties (Latiff, 1994). Many of these plants species are either found in the wild or cultivated around the house compounds. Various plants and herbs species such as those of the Euphorbiaceae, Leguminosae, Graminae, Verbenaceae and others are commonly used to treat various ailments such as diarrhea, skin problems and headache. The practices of variety of traditional medicine types are based commonly on ethnic origins.


Hence, the development and growth in ‘complementary’ medicine such as homeopathy, naturopathy, reflexology, aromatherapy, chiropractic, etc.

Tomato Protection

Posted by Borneo Responsible Tourism on Tuesday, October 4, 2011
A compound found in dehydrated tomatoes may help quash prostate cancer tumours, new animal research suggests.

Past studies have come to conflicting conclusions as to whether tomatoes or lycopene, an antioxidant found in tomatoes, might offer prostate cancer protection, with one recent study finding no correlation between men’s blood levels of lycopene and their risk of prostate cancer.
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