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Health Products

Items consumed to improve well-being, including medicine, vitamins, food, clothes, medical devices, disinfectants, and beauty products.

Health Services

Programs availed from providers like physicians, nurses, therapists, hospitals, clinics, and health insurances.

Healthcare Providers

Include Healthcare Professionals, Healthcare Facilities, and Health Insurance.

Herbal Medicine

Use of plants for disease treatment or health improvement, approved by DOH for therapeutic purposes.

Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act (TAMA)

Law signed by Fidel Ramos in 1997, creating the Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care (PITAHC).

Naturopathy

Medical system combining traditional practices and health care approaches, offering natural practices like herbal medicine, acupuncture, acupressure, nutritional therapy, and Ventosa cupping massage therapy.

Acupuncture

Form of energy medicine using needles inserted into specific body parts to affect energy flow, believed to treat musculoskeletal dysfunctions.

Ventosa Cupping Massage Therapy

Procedure involving placing inverted glasses with flames on specific body points to relieve muscle and joint pains.

Reflexology

Treatment method focusing on specific disorders through massaging the soles of the feet.

Acupressure

Technique similar to acupuncture but uses hands instead of needles to apply pressure on specific body points.

AKAPULKO ( Senna alata)

For ringworm and other skin (fungal infections) 

AMPALAYA

For non-insulin dependent diabetic patients 

BAWANG

For blood pressure control 

BAYABAS

For use as antiseptic to disinfect wounds 

LAGUNDI

For cough and asthma 

NIYOG-NIYOGAN

For intestinal worms, particularly ascaris and trichina 

SAMBONG

For Urinary stones 

TSAANG GUBAT (wild tea) 

For mouthwash

PANSIT-PANSITAN

For arthritis and gout 

YERBA-BUENA

For relief from body ached and pains 

R.A. No. 9775 

Anti-child pornography Act of 2009

reclusion perpetua

not more that 40 years imprisonment

abuse

treating a person or animal w cruelty

neglect

not taking proper care of someone or something

cruelty

causes pain or suffer to a person or animal

exploitation

treating someone unfairly to benefit them

discrimination

the unjust treament of ddiferent categories of people

R.A. No. 10354 

The responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012

R.A. No. 9211

The Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003

R.A. No. 9165 

The comprehensive dangerous drugs act of 2002

R.A. No. 7394 The consumer act of the Philippines of 1992

aims to protect the consumer’s interest, promote the general welfare, and establish standards for business and industry.

R.A. No. 10175 

Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 

copy right

The exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same. 

plagiarism

An act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization. 

Computer Addiction

known as “Internet Addiction”, gets more attention in general from scientific research that offline computer addiction, mainly because most cases of computer addiction are related to the excessive use of the Internet