A Review of Traditional Medicinal Plants from Kachin State, Northern Myanmar

Abstract

Medicinal plants are a vital source of medication in developing countries. In Kachin State, Northern Myanmar, the people have a long history of the use of traditional plants for medicinal purposes. This article deals with the 25 most used medicinal plants in Kachin State.

Highly Cytotoxic Xanthones from Cratoxylum cochinchinense Collected in Myanmar

“…Actually, we found it to be more convenient (higher compound solubility, better signal separation, absence of non-chelated OH interfering signals) to determine the spectra in solvents different from those reported in the literature. 1 Cytotoxic xanthones from Cratoxylum cochinchinense Natural Product Communications Vol. 12 (11) 2017 1761 13 Assignments can be interchanged.…”

“…However, despite the rich biodiversity and numerous medicinal plants used in Myanmar, only a few phytochemical studies have been carried out so far. Within our ongoing project on medicinal plants of this country [1], in this paper we describe our results of the first investigation on Cratoxylum cochinchinense (Lour.) Blume.…”

“…Eight known xanthones (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8), one anthraquinone (9), and four common triterpenoids were isolated from a MeOH extract of the bark. The structures of these compounds were established by ESI-MS, IR, X-ray analysis (for xanthones 5 and 7), 1D ( 1 H and 13 C) and 2D NMR spectral measurements.…”

“…C NMR (75 MHz, MeOH-d 4 ): δ C 182.8 (C-9), 162.2 (C-1), 161.9 (C-3), 157.1 (C-4a), 148.3 (C-5), 146.7 (C-10a), 125.0 (C-7), 122.5 (C-8a), 120.7 (C-6), 115.8 (C-8), 111.0 (C-4), 105.3 (C-9a), 100.2 (C-2), 94.2 (C-2'), 47.2 (C-3'), 33.4 (C-4'), 29.1 (C-5'), 28.9 (C-6').Pruniflorone M (2)1 H NMR (300 MHz, MeOH-d 4 ): δ H 13.15 (1H, s, 1-OH), 7.64 (1H, dd, J = 7.7 and 2.0 Hz, H-8), 7.26 (1H, dd, J = 7.7 and 2.0 Hz, H-6), 7.20 (1H, t, J = 7.7 Hz, H-7), 6.23 (1H, s, H-2), 4.49 (1H, t, J = 6.0 Hz, H-2'), 3.89 (2H, d, J = 6.0 Hz, H 2 -1'), 1.69 (3H, s, H 3 -5') a , 1.44 (3H, s, H 3 -4') a . 13 C NMR (75 MHz, MeOH-d 4 ): δ C 182.3 (C-9), 167.6 (C-1), 165.5 (C-3), 154.0 (C-4a), 148.0 (C-5), 147.8 (C-10a) b , 125.0 (C-7), 122.7 (C-8a), 121.2 (C-6), 116.2 (C-8), 114.2 (C-4), 104.7 (C-9a) b , 96.0 (C-2'), 94.4 (C-2), 61.7 (C-1'), 44.4 (C-3'), 27.1 (C-5') c , 21.1 (C-4') c .…”

A review of scientific research on the implementation of traditional medicine in rehabilitation

“…In some Asian and African countries, up to 80% of the population is using the services of traditional medicine in primary healthcare during the last thirty years. 4 In addition, an interest in the traditional medicine in many developed countries is significantly increased. For example, 70% of the population in Canada and 80% in Germany are using some form of alternative or complementary medicine.…”