University of Wollongong Research Online Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: Part B Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health 1-1-2020 Vascular epiphytic medicinal plants as sources of therapeutic agents: Their ethnopharmacological uses, chemical composition, and biological activities Ari S. Nugraha Bawon Triatmoko Phurpa Wangchuk Paul A. Keller University of Wollongong,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/smhpapers1 Publication Details Citation Nugraha, A. S., Triatmoko, B., Wangchuk, P., & Keller, P. A. (2020). Vascular epiphytic medicinal plants as sources of therapeutic agents: Their ethnopharmacological uses, chemical composition, and biological activities. Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: Part B. Retrieved from https://ro.uow.edu.au/ smhpapers1/1180 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library:
[email protected] Vascular epiphytic medicinal plants as sources of therapeutic agents: Their ethnopharmacological uses, chemical composition, and biological activities Abstract This is an extensive review on epiphytic plants that have been used traditionally as medicines. It provides information on 185 epiphytes and their traditional medicinal uses, regions where Indigenous people use the plants, parts of the plants used as medicines and their preparation, and their reported phytochemical properties and pharmacological properties aligned with their traditional uses. These epiphytic medicinal plants are able to produce a range of secondary metabolites, including alkaloids, and a total of 842 phytochemicals have been identified ot date. As many as 71 epiphytic medicinal plants were studied for their biological activities, showing promising pharmacological activities, including as anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and anticancer agents.