TAMA Flashcards
led to:
● creation of the Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care (PITAHC)
● aims to improve the quality and delivery of healthcare services to the Filipino people.
● help the indigenous people societies in setting a legally workable basis regarding their ownership of their knowledge of
traditional medicine
Traditional and Alternative Medicine
Act of 1997 (R.A. 8423)
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.
“Traditional and alternative health care”
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.
“Traditional medicine”
that discipline of medical care advocating therapy with remedies that produce effects differing from those of the diseases treated.
It is also called “allopathy”,”western medicine”, “orthodox medicine”, or “ cosmopolitan medicine.”
“Biomedicine”
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.
Some alternative health care modalities include reflexology, acupressure, chiropractic, nutritional therapy, and other similar methods.
“Alternative health care modalities”
finished, labeled, 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”
those foods that grow spontaneously in nature whether or not they are tended by man. It also refers to foods that have been prepared from grains,
vegetables, fruits, nuts, meats, fish, eggs, honey, raw milk, and the like, without the use or addition of additives, preservatives, artificial colors and flavors, or manufactured chemicals of any sort after harvest or slaughter.
“Natural product”
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 labeling 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
“Manufacture”
What year na approve ang TAMA?
December 9, 1997
Who approved sa TAMA?
President Fidel V. Ramos
PITAHC is implemented for whom?
for the indigenous people
to acknowledge the indigenous people
the relatively old, highly respected people with a profound knowledge of traditional remedies.
“Traditional healers”
is the legal basis by which the indigenous communities exercise their rights to have access to, protect, control over their cultural knowledge and product, including, but not limited to, traditional medicines, and
includes the right to receive compensation for it.
ownership of the practice and legal action
“Intellectual property rights”
an ancient medicinal system that emerged in India; promotes specific lifestyle interventions and natural therapies.
“knowledge of life.”
Ayurveda
partly based on old spiritual and
herbal medicine in remote rural communities.
TCAM’s credibility
