Traditional Medicine, Complementary and Alternative Herbal Medicine Flashcards
Composition of NIRPROMP responsible for identifying, propagating, cultivating the prioritized plants and to establish the gene bank on herbal medicinal plants
Agricultural units
NIRPROMP unit that tests on prioritized plants to ensure non-mutagenicity, non-clastogenicity, and isolation of active ingredient
Biochemistry unit
NIRPROMP responsible for toxicological and pharmacodynamic studies in animal thus validating folkloric claims
Pre-clinical Pharmacologic Unit
Undertake clinical trials in patients using preparations/formulations of medicinal plants which have been shown on pre-clinical animal studies to be safe
Clinical Pharmacology Unit
In charge of developing dosage forms of assured quality and stability to beused in the clinical study and ultimately for public use
Pharmacy Unit
To undertake extraction of plant materials for bioassay, isolation and identification of the active principles to develop the analytical procedure for chmical analysis
Phytochemistry Unit
To provide inputs on adequate sample size, experimental design and statistical analyses in the various scientific studies
Biostatistics/Epidemiology
Give 6 herbal medicines developed by NIRPROMP
Ampait! LaSAng Tsaang Yerba Buena! Ampalaya Lagundi Sambong Akapulko Tsaang Gubat Yerba Buena
What is the common name of Blumea balsamifera?
Sambong
What is the common name of Casia alata?
Akapulko
What is the approved indication of akapulko?
antifungal; topical for dermatophytes
Pharmacologic Action of akapulko include
Bronchial smooth muscle relaxation
Antihistamine
Anti-leukotriene
Anti-inflammatory
Adverse effects of akapulko
mild pruritius, transient burning sensation
What is the common name of Vitex negundo?
Lagundi
What is the approved indication for Lagundi?
cough
bronchospasm in asthma
