PRELIMINARY TERM - PART 2

Question 1

Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act (TAMA) of 1997

Answer 1

RA 8423

Question 2

This act is known as the “Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act (TAMA) of 1997” and was established in __________.

Answer 2

1999

Question 3

It is an act that is responsible in the creation of the Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care (PITAHC), which aims to accelerate the development of traditional and alternative health care in the Philippines.

Answer 3

“Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act (TAMA) of 1997”

Question 4

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.

Answer 4

“Traditional and alternative health care”

Question 5

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.

Answer 5

“Traditional medicine”

Question 6

that discipline of medical care advocating therapy with remedies that produce effects differing from those of the diseases treated.

Answer 6

“Biomedicine”

Question 7

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.

Answer 7

“Herbal medicines”

Question 8

those foods that grow spontaneously in nature whether ornot 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.

Answer 8

“Natural product”

Question 9

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.

Answer 9

“Manufacture”

Question 10

the relatively old, highly respected people with a
profound knowledge of traditional remedies.

Answer 10

“Traditional healers”

Question 11

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.

Answer 11

“Intellectual property rights”

Question 12

Republic Act 8423 (R.A. 8423) mandates the ___________

Answer 12

Philippine Institute of Traditional and
Alternative Health Care (PITAHC)

Question 13

“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“.

Answer 13

Republic Act 8423 (R.A. 8423)

Question 14

Is the term used to describe the treatment of medical conditions with medications, by doctors, nurses and other conventional healthcare providers who employ methods developed according to Western medical and scientific tradition.

Answer 14

Western Medicine

Question 15

Encompasses all types of conventional medical treatment, including surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and physical therapy

Answer 15

Western Medicine

Question 16

4 Main Focus of Allopathic Medicine

Answer 16

1. There is only one cause of any disease (the Doctrine of Specific Etiology).
2. The body is a material entity, not unlike a machine with clockwork mechanisms.
3. The opposite cures.
4. Only methods found to be effective through rigorous scientific study are
   appropriate means to a cure.

Question 17

2 Major Philosophical differences between Allopathic medicine and Alternative medicine

Answer 17

1. Allopathic medicine constantly treats the disease, not the individual. Whereas
   “alternative,” holistic approaches maintain the connectedness of the human
   being to its environment, both internal and external.
2. Allopathic medicine believes in simple, one-cause disease states. Whereas
   “alternative,” holistic medicine purports a multifactorial etiological model of
   disease.

Question 18

___________ is used in place of conventional medicine

Answer 18

Alternative medicine

Question 19

_________ is used together with conventional
medicine

Answer 19

Complementary medicine

Question 20

___________ is used together with conventional
medicine in a deliberate manner that is personalized, evidence
based, and safe.

Answer 20

Integrative medicine