(c) “Biomedicine” – that discipline of medical care advocating therapy with remedies that Home Transparency Seal About GOVPH produce effects differing from those of the diseases treated. It is also called “allopathy”,”western medicine”, “orthodox medicine”, or “cosmopolitan medicine”. (http://www.gov.ph) (http://pitahc.gov.ph) (http://pitahc.gov.ph/transparency/) Service Us (d) “Alternative health care modalities” – other forms of non-allopathic, occasionally nonindigenous or imported healing methods, though not necessarily practiced for centuries nor Contact Us (http://pitahc.gov.ph/contact-us/) Search …  handed down from one generation to another. Some alternative health care modalities include reflexology, acupressure, chiropractics, nutritional therapy, and other similar methods. (e) “Herbal medicines” – 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. Plant material includes juices, gums, fatty oils, essential oils, and other substances of this nature. Herbal medicines, however, may contain excipients in addition to the active ingredient(s). 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. (f) “Natural product” – 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. (g) “Manufacture” – 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. (h) “Traditional healers” – the relatively old, highly respected people with a profound knowledge of traditional remedies. (i) “Intellectual property rights” – 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. ARTICLE III THE PHILIPPINE INSTITUTE OF TRADITIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE Section 5. Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care. – There is hereby established a body corporate to be known as the Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care, hereinafter referred to as the Institute. The Institute shall be attached to the Department  /