The search for plants with medicinal use has led to some ethnobotanical studies that have documented traditional medicine of plant species, uses, part used, mode of administration and disease treated by local communities. In Malaysia, documentation on traditional knowledge on medicinal plants by local communities is still on-going. Traditional knowledge on medicinal plants is a legacy passed from one generation to another and some of them are being lost with the increasing rate of habitat destruction. Despite many studies have been carried out on medicinal plant resources in Malaysia, a larger number of medicinal plants and traditional uses are still waiting for proper documentation especially at Behrang Reserve Forest, Perak. Therefore, this study was urgently required because many of the plant species reported to have medicinal values are in danger of becoming extinct due to the loss of their natural habitats caused deforestation. Thus, to achieve these goals, the identific.....

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