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Act creating the Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care (PITAHC) to accelerate the development of traditional and alternative health-care in the Philippines,	Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act of 1997,
PROCLAMATION No. 698 in 2004 declared __ as Traditional and Alternative Health Care (TAHC) Month	1 November
defines traditional medicine (also called indigenous or folk medicine) as “knowledge, skills, and practices based on theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, used in the maintenance of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of physical or mental illness.”	RA 8423
VISION “People’s health through traditional and alternative health care” MISSION “We lead in the research and development, promotion and advocacy, and development of standards on traditional and complementary medicine (T&CM); and we ensure its accessibility, availability, sustainability and integration into the national health care. system.”	.
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”
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.	“Intellectual property rights”
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 of Health. Its principal flag office shall be in Metro Manila	Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care.
The corporate powers of the Institute shall be exercised, and all its business, activities and properties shall be controlled by a Board of Trustees, hereinafter referred to as the Board.	Board of Trustees.