by Christophe Wiart


Scientific Journals

Allorge L., Wiart C. and L.E. Toe, (1995), Kopsia terengganensis L. Allorge & C. Wiart (Apocynaceae), A New Malaysian Species. Acta Botanica Gallica, 42 (5): 433-437. (ISSN 1253-8078).

Shasya U., Ali M., Hamid A., Awang K., Wiart C., Gaillard J.F. & M. Pais, (1997), Terengganensine A and B, Dihydroeburnane Alkaloids from Kopsia terengganensis. Tetrahedron Letters, 38 (9): 1571-1574. (ISSN 0040-4039/97).

Shar M., Manaf A., Mawardi M., Wiart C. & Jasbir S.D., (2000), Apoptotic and Necrotic Cell Death Manifestation in Leukemia Cells Treated with Methylgerambullin a Sulphone from Glycosmis calcicola, Journal of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, 4: 253-261.

Wiart C., Kumar A., Mogana S., Norhanom A., Kasturi S., (2000), Screening of Tropical Plants of Malaysia (Perak), Journal of Tropical Plants, 1, 6-10, (ISSN: 1511-8525).

C. Morel, D. Guilet, J.M. Oger, D. Séraphin, T. Sévenet, C. Wiart, A. Hamid A. Hadi, P. Richomme et J. Bruneton (1999). New 6-Acylcoumarins from Mesua racemosa, Phytochemistry, 50 (7), 1243-1247.

D. Guilet, C. Morel, N. Noyer, M. Cornec, D. Séraphin, C. Wiart, A. Hamid-A. Hadi T. Sévenet, P. Richomme et J. Bruneton (1999). Four New 4-Phenylcoumarins from Calophyllum dispar. Isolation and Hemisynthesis, Heterocycles, 51, 67-76.

Wiart C. et al. (2001), Sesquiterpenes and Alkaloids from Scorodocarpus borneensis, Phytochemistry, 58(4): 653-656.

Wiart C., (2001), Herbal Medicine, Research Bulletin, University of Malaya Medical Center, 1.

Wiart C., S. Mogana, S. Khalifah, M. Mahan, S, Ismail, M. Buckle, A.K. Narayana, M. Sulaiman, (2004), Antimicrobial screening of plants used for traditional medicine in the state of Perak, Peninsular Malaysia. Fitoterapia, 75: 68 – 73.
Books

PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF PHARMACOGNOSY (ISBN 9839236644)
The increasing intake of medicinal plants in health care products and cosmetics has provoked a drastic come back for pharmacognosy and a serious need of pharmacists knowledgeable in pharmacognosy.  The purpose of this book is to introduce basic terminology, which may help pharmacists to familiarize themselves with official pharmacopoeial texts, and it also provides basic preliminary techniques to prepare crude drugs, to constitute monographs or in to identify plant samples. The purpose of this book is not to compete with well established textbooks or official pharmacopoeial texts but it is to introduce botanical, microscopical, physical and chemical basic methods which may contribute to a better understanding of pharmacognosy for pharmacists, students, researchers and industrials. The first part of this book introduces the methods of identification of crude drugs of plant origin. This part provides a basic knowledge in botany, microscopical, chemical and physical techniques. The second part of this book describes the main classes of plant constituents as well as some techniques of extraction and identification.

MEDICINAL PLANTS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA (ISBN 9679787257)
This book is a simple guide to the Southeast Asian medicinal plants intended for students in pharmacy, food science, natural products chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, biology, and biotechnology. It classifies over 100 Southeast Asian medicinal plants mainly according to the remarkable Cronquist system of flowering plant evolution. Within each class, the medicinal plants are listed according to their respective subclasses, orders, families and genera. It discusses not only the ethnobotanical  description but also the detailed biological properties of the plants. Majority of the books of medicinal plants are either primarily concerned with the description of a particular aspect or have been written for an audience of chemists, pharmacognosists, etc. But the new approach in medicinal Plants of Southeast Asia intends to show that a biological activity may be predicted by a botanical appurtenance. In other words, a student may be able to understand and even envisage the biological effect(s) exerted by a plant extract or compound.

MEDICINAL PLANTS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA, Second Edition (ISBN 9832473233)
Medicinal plants of Southeast Asia, second edition, is a simple guide to the medicinal plants representative of the pharmacopoeias of countries in Southeast Asia namely Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and to some extent, of India, China, Korea, Japan and Polynesia. The book is prefaced by Professor Guy Mazars, President of the European Society of Ethnopharmacology.








Reviewers:
“The readers who are interested in the Ethnopharmacology of Asian medicinal plants will find this book extremely valuable, and therefore be grateful to Wiart for his efforts in compiling this guide.”

Professor Guy Mazars, President of the European Society of Ethnopharmacology.

“I know of no other comprehensive competing book coverin the same disciplines and geographic area.”

Professor Peter Waterman, Southern Cross University, Australia.

“Christophe Wiart has collected together 225 of the most important plants of the region, and thoroughly researched the scientific literature for as much validated information as possible, using many primary sources...the book serves as a source for researchers wishing to look at new plants with interesting folk-lore usage…This is a clear and comprehensive account of the most important plants of Southeast Asia, and is essential reading for anyone interested in the medicinal plants of this scientifically rather neglected region.”

Professor Elizabeth M. Williamson, School of Pharmacy, University of London. (Phytotherapy Research Volume 17, Issue 7, 2003. Page 842).