Traditional Bhutanese medicine (gSo-BA Rig-PA): an integrated part of the formal health care servicesPhurpa Wangchuk
Pharmaceutical and Research Unit, Institute of Traditional Medicine Services, Ministry of Health, Thimphu, Bhutan
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 38:161-7. 2007
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Hetisine-type diterpenoid alkaloids from the Bhutanese medicinal plant Aconitum orochryseumPhurpa Wangchuk
Department of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
J Nat Prod 70:1808-11. 2007
..The structures of the new alkaloids were elucidated by spectroscopic data analysis...
Antiplasmodial activity of atisinium chloride from the Bhutanese medicinal plant, Aconitum orochryseumPhurpa Wangchuk
School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
J Ethnopharmacol 130:559-62. 2010
..The plant Aconitum orochryseum Stapf. (Ranunculaceae) is employed together with other plants in Bhutanese traditional medicine and is indicated for malaria-associated fever...
Ethnobotanical authentication and identification of Khrog-sman (Lower Elevation Medicinal Plants) of BhutanPhurpa Wangchuk
School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
J Ethnopharmacol 134:813-23. 2011
..Our study reports the botanical identification of 'Lower Elevation Medicinal Plants' and their ethnomedical uses...
Evaluation of an ethnopharmacologically selected Bhutanese medicinal plants for their major classes of phytochemicals and biological activitiesPhurpa Wangchuk
School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
J Ethnopharmacol 137:730-42. 2011
..We have focused our study only on seven species of these plants...
Antimalarial alkaloids from a Bhutanese traditional medicinal plant Corydalis dubiaPhurpa Wangchuk
School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
J Ethnopharmacol 143:310-3. 2012
..Corydalis dubia is used in Bhutanese traditional medicine as a febrifuge and for treating infections in the blood, liver and bile which correlate to the signs and symptoms of malarial and microbial infections...
Phytochemical and biological activity studies of the Bhutanese medicinal plant Corydalis crispaPhurpa Wangchuk
School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia
Nat Prod Commun 7:575-80. 2012
..This study also identified compound 5 as potential new antimalarial lead compound...
Antiplasmodial agents from the Bhutanese medicinal plant Corydalis callianthaPhurpa Wangchuk
Pharmaceutical and Research Unit, Department of Medical Services, Ministry of Health, Institute of Traditional Medicine Services, Thimphu, Bhutan
Phytother Res 24:481-5. 2010
..The results thus support, at a molecular level, the clinical use of this plant in the Bhutanese traditional medicine and identified cheilanthifoline as a potential new antimalarial drug lead...