TRADITIONAL & ALTERNATIVE HEALTHCARE

• Republic Act No. 8423, also known as the Traditional Alternative

  Medicine Act of 1997
• Acupressure – a method that uses the application of pressure
• Acupuncture – a method of healing using needles to puncture
• Massage – a method wherein the superficial soft parts of the body are rubbed or stroked
• Reflexology – application of therapeutic pressure on the body’s reflex

  points
• Chiropractic – concerned with the pathogenesis, diagnosis, therapy, and prophylaxis
• Homeopathic Medicine – remedies that have

  produced similar syndromes (plants, minerals, or animals)
• R.A. 8423 - Traditional Alternative Medicine act of 1997

  - Regulate traditional healthcare
• Nutritional Therapy - food as medicine
• Oracion - prayers or chanting
• Phyto-therapy - plant based drugs
• Pranic healing - balancing energy
• PITAHC - Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care