Intro to cam

• Complementary Medicine is used together with conventional medicine.
• Alternative Medicine is used in place of conventional medicine.
• Allopathic Medicine, also known as Western medicine, biomedicine, scientific medicine or modern medicine
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine: a set of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not generally considered part of the country’s own tradition and are not integrated into the dominant healthcare system.
• Integrative Medicine combines conventional and CAM treatments for which there is evidence of safety and effectiveness.
• The Traditional and Alternative Health Care Development Fund shall be used to implement the provisions of this Act.
• The Director General of the Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care is Dr. Annabelle Pabiona-De Guzman.
• Not more than fifteen percent (15%) of the Traditional and Alternative Health Care Development Fund shall be used for administrative costs of the Institute.
• The Traditional and Alternative Health Care Development Fund is a fund used exclusively for the programs and projects of the Institute, with an initial allocation of Fifty million pesos (P50,000,000,00) for the first year, Seventy-five million pesos (P75,000,000.00) for the second year, and One hundred million pesos (P100,000,000.00) for the third year from the earnings of Duty Free Philippines.
• Herbal Preparations and Products include herbs, herbal materials, herbal preparations and finished herbal products, that contain as active ingredients parts of plants, or other plant materials, or combinations.
• Traditional Medicine refers to knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not, used in the maintenance as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement, or treatment of physical and mental illness.
• Traditional Medicines in the Philippines include Philippine Folk Medicine, Albularyo, Babaylan, Hilot, Mananambal, Mangluluop, Manghihila, Magpapaanak, Mangtatawas, Local shaman of Cordillera.
• Albularyo methods of treatment used: prayers, spitting, rubbing, plastering and murmuring.
• Prayer in Albularyo is the use of prayers to invoke some saint or God.
• Spitting in Albularyo is chewing and spitting on the object for a cure, for example, in circumcision, tobacco mixed with guava leaves is chewed Then spat on the newly cut foreskin.
• Rubbing in Albularyo is a little massage with the use of an ointment or a liniment, for example, Kerosene is used to rub on the joints that are painful or aching.
• Plastering in Albularyo involves herbs being pounded in the mortar and applied with a piece of cloth.
• The State aims to seek a legally workable basis by which indigenous societies would own their knowledge of traditional medicine.
• “Alternative health care modalities” refer to other forms of non-allopathic, occasionally non-indigenous or imported healing methods, though not necessarily practiced for centuries nor handed down from one generation to another.
• The policy of the State is to improve the quality and delivery of health care services to the Filipino people through the development of traditional and alternative health care and its integration into the national health care delivery system.
• As used in this Act, “Traditional and alternative health care” refers to the sum total of knowledge, skills and practices on health care, other than those embodied in biomedicine, used in the prevention, diagnosis and elimination of physical or mental disorder.
• “Herbal medicines” are finished, labelled, medicinal products that contain as active ingredient/s serial or underground part/s of plant or other materials or combination thereof, whether in the crude state or as plant preparations.
• Herbal medicines may contain excipients in addition to the active ingredient(s).
• The objectives of this Act are to encourage scientific research on and develop traditional and alternative health care systems that have direct impact on public health care, promote and advocate the use of traditional, alternative, preventive and curative health care modalities that have been proven safe, effective, cost effective and consistent with government standards on medical practice, develop and coordinate skills training courses for various forms of traditional and alternative health care modalities, formulate policies for the protection of indigenous and natural health resources and
• “Traditional medicine” is the sum total of knowledge, skills, and practice on health care, not necessarily explicable in the context of modern, scientific philosophical framework, but recognized by the people to help maintain and improve their health towards the wholeness of their being, the community and society, and their interrelations based on culture, history, heritage, and consciousness.
• Plant material in herbal medicines includes juices, gums, fatty oils, essential oils, and other substances of this nature.
• “Biomedicine” is that discipline of medical care advocating therapy with remedies that produce effects differing from those of the diseases treated.
• Murmuring in Albularyo is a special secret phrase with specific wonders on certain ailments, it is not directed to God or a saint, the words themselves are responsible for the results.
• Manghihilot practice involves manipulation and massage for the diagnosis and treatment of musculoligamentous and muskuloskeletal ailments, their practice is limited only to bodily complaints amenable to chiropractic manipulations and massage.
• A "manufacture" is any and all operations involved in the production, including preparation, propagation, processing, formulating, filling, packing, repacking, altering, ornamenting, finishing, or otherwise changing the container, wrapper, or labelling of a consumer product in the furtherance of the distribution of the same from the original place of manufacture to the person who makes the final delivery or sale to the ultimate consumer.
• The Institute promulgates a nationwide campaign to boost support for the realization of the objectives of this Act, encourages the participation of non-government organizations in traditional and alternative health care and health-related projects, and formulates and implements a research program on the indigenous Philippine traditional health care practices performed by "traditional healers" using scientific research methodologies.
• A "natural product" is defined as those foods that grow spontaneously in nature whether or not they are tended by man.
• The Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care is a body corporate attached to the Department of Health, with its principal office in Metro Manila, and may establish other branches or offices elsewhere in the Philippines as may be necessary or proper for the accomplishment of its purposes and objectives.
• Medicines containing plant material(s) combined with chemically-defined active substances, including chemically-defined, isolated constituents of plants, are not considered to be herbal medicines.
• The Institute, in collaboration with the Bureau of Food and Drugs, formulates standards and guidelines for the manufacture, quality control and marketing of different traditional and alternative health care materials and products.
• Galen was a great anatomical knowledge and is known for his work on cold cream.
• Manufacturers of traditional and alternative health care products like herbal medicinal plants enjoy such exemptions, deductions and other tax incentives as may be provided for under the Omnibus Investment Code, as amended.
• Shamanism is a primitive tribe's belief that illness is caused by evil spirits and is treated by shamans who can voluntarily enter altered states of consciousness.
• – A Traditional and Alternative Health Care Development Fund is hereby established, which shall be used for the implementation of the programs and projects of the Institute.
• Hilot is the traditional massage healing practice from the Philippines.