Orang Asli (Indigenous Malaysian) Biomedical Bibliography AS Baer

221. Lim, H. F., and Ramli Baki. Penggunaan sumber-sumber hutan sebagain ubatan
tradisional di kalangan masyarakat Orang Asli. Paper for the National Workshop to integrate
traditional medicine with primary health care, Institut Penyelidikan Perubatan [IMR], Kuala
Lumpur, 1990. (On Orang Asli traditional medicines.)
222. Lim, K. W. Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by the Jah Hut people of
Malaysia. Indian J. Med. Sci. 59 (4):156-161, 2005. (At Kg. Keboi, Pahang, 16 species and their
traditional uses were recorded via interviews with traditional healers.)
223. Nitta, A. On “tepas terbang,” a folk medicine used by Orang Asli. Yakugaku Zasshi 104
(3):256-260, 1984 [Japanese with English abstract]. (On a rhizome of the ginger family.)
224. Polunin, I. The magical medical system of the Jah Hut tribe of Central West Malaysia.
Proceedings 8 th Internat. Congress Anthropological and Ethnological Sci. 1:243-244, 1968.
(Describes this system of the Pahang Jah Hut and stresses the beneficial effect of suggestive
psychotherapy.)
225. Polunin, I. Magic in the Hills. 16 mm. film produced by BBC TV, distributed by Time-Life
Films, Inc., 1973. (On Jah Hut, Pahang, curing practices.)
226. Robarchek, C. A. Mothers, ghosts and shamans: Semai world view and ethnomedicine. In
Health, Food and Nutrition in Malaysia. Consumers Associations of Malaysia, Penang, 1980.
227. Siti Masturah b. Ismail. The politics of indigenous knowledge and intellectual property
rights: Batek challenges to Western epistemologies. B. A. thesis, Middlebury College, Vermont.
(Discusses Batek forest products and ideas of health; near Kuala Tahan, Pahang, Batek sell
medicinal plants cheaply to outsiders as a favor to them to improve their health, disregarding the
possible misuse of Batek intellectual property rights by others to gain high profits via
“biopiracy.”)
228. Taylor, C. E., and K. M. Wong. Some aspects of herbal medicine among the Orang Hulu
community of Kampung Peta, Johore, Malaysia. Malayan Nature J. 41:317-328, 1987. (Many of
the plants documented in this Endau area are used as prophylactics or in relation to pregnancy and
childbirth by the Jakun.)
229. Teh, K. H. Tradition and medicine in Malaysia: a bibliography of popular folk beliefs,
superstitions, and indigenous practices pertaining to health, diseases, nutrition and related
medical subjects. Univ. Malaya Library, Kuala Lumpur, 1983.
230. Werner, R. Can the medicine-man be substituted—medical services for the aborigines
(Orang Asli) in West Malaysia. Öffentliche Gesundheitswesen 41 (1):17-28, 1979. [In German.]
VIII. Filariasis
231. Abdullah, W. O., P. Oothuman, and Hashim Yunis. Detection of circulating antigens and
parasite-specific antibodies in filariasis. SEAJTMPH 24 (suppl. 2):31-36, 1993. (Studied 6
Orang Asli in Gombak hospital who had acute lymphatic filariasis. Abdullah has also been cited
in databases as Wan Omar, A., or Wan., O. A.)
232. Hakim, S. L., et al. Single-dose diethylcarbamazine in the control of periodic Brugian
filariasis in Peninsular Malaysia. TRSTMH 89 (6):686-689, 1995. (In 1992 Jahai of Banum and