Study on Naturally Occurring Drug Materials in Indonesia -4

印度尼西亚可能是世界上天然产品资源最丰富的国家之一，特别是植物资源。印尼人长期以来一直使用药用植物作为传统药物，但其中大部分尚未得到现代科学的证实。我们的研究项目名为“印尼天然药物材料研究-4”，旨在揭示天然药物材料，即药用植物，在1992年的考察中，我们首先在马鲁古省的市场上收集了有关马鲁古香料的信息。接下来，我们访问了中苏拉威西省，从当地人那里收集了大约200种传统药用植物的信息，并收集了23种药用植物进行化学调查。1993年，我们收集的所有植物都在印度尼西亚博戈尔的博戈里植物标本馆进行了植物学鉴定。此外，这些标本的酒精提取物在大坂大学进行了几次色谱分析，以分离化学成分，用于检查其生物活性。这些分析研究正在进行中。迄今为止，我们已经获得了一些有希望的证据，这表明对我们调查中收集的这些材料进行化学和生物学研究可能会导致我们发现新的具有药理学重要性的物质，与印度尼西亚生物研究和发展中心（LIPI）的合作，印度尼西亚的参与组织，今后肯定会以这种方式继续下去。

Indonesia is perhaps one of the richest countries in the world in natural product resources, particularly in botanical resources. Indonesian people have been using medicinal plants as traditional medicines for long time, although most of them have not yet been verified on the basis of modern science.Our research project entitled "Study on Naturally Occurring Drug Materials in Indonesia-4" aims at revealing the naturally occurring drug materials, i.e. medicinal plants, in Indonesia and anticipates the development of the academic exchange between Japan and Indonesia.In 1992 expedition, we first collected the information about Maluku spices in the market of Maluku Province. Next, we visited Central Sulawesi Province and collected information about 200 kinds of traditionally used medicinal plants from the local people and collected 23 kinds of medicinal plants for chemical investigations.In 1993, all the plants collected by us were botanically identified at Herbarium Bogoriense, Bogor, Indonesia. Furthermore, the alcoholic extracts of these specimens were subjected to several chromatographic analyses at Osaka University to isolate the chemical constituents for examination of their biological activities. Those analytical studies are in progress. We have so far obtained some promising evidence, which suggests that the chemical and biological studies of those materials collected in our survey may lead us to find new substances of pharmacological importance.The collaboration with the Research and Development Center for Biology-LIPI, Indonesia, the Indonesian participating organization, will certainly be continued in this manner hereafter.