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[Title] => Pinoy drugmaker to export herbal medicines next year
[Summary] => Altermed Corp., a subsidiary of local drugmaker Pascual Laboratories, is aiming to carve a niche in the global biopharm industry as it starts exporting indigenous herbal medicines in 2007.
"We have been receiving a lot of inquiries from various foreign pharmaceutical companies wanting to market our herbal medicines and we are in serious talks with a number of these companies. Before the end of the year, we should be able to strike a deal and start shipping our products abroad," said Dr. Francis Wade Gomez, president of Altermed.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-10 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1704647
[AuthorName] => Rocel Felix
[SectionName] => Business
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[ArticleID] => 192051
[Title] => Organic Farming
[Summary] => Organic farming has been touted as the most natural means of farming, wherein chemical pesticides or synthetic fertilizers are not used. Essentially, organic farming makes use of compost, manure, peat moss, and other natural fertilizers in the cultivation of farms or gardens. It is also touted as "biological farming."
This method has been called an alternative to the conventional means, yet history says it has been utilized even way before modern means of farming have been formulated.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-19 00:00:00
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[SectionName] => Agriculture
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[ArticleID] => 184879
[Title] => Malunggay supplement helps breastfeeding
[Summary] => Malunggay, the leafy vegetable often found in favorite Filipino recipes, is actually a medicinal plant that has health benefits.
Malunggay also has its own folkloric use with its leaves being used by our ancestors to enhance breast milk production among breastfeeding mothers. It was also used as a rubefacient, antiscorbutic, diuretic and remedy for rheumatism.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-21 00:00:00
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[SectionName] => Science and Environment
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[Title] => Lagundi, sambong, ampalaya wow UCLA doctors
[Summary] => An American suffering from asthma finds relief in lagundi tablets manufactured in the Philippines. A European athlete experiencing excruciating pains from kidney stones takes sambong tablets to flush them out. For now, these scenarios remain a dream but the idea of Philippine herbal medicines "healing the world" may not be so farfetched after all.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-03 00:00:00
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[Title] => Exercise, diet best for cutting diabetes risk
[Summary] => Getting more exercise, eating a low-fat diet and losing some weight can prevent diabetes and may be more effective than medicinal drugs, according to a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Researchers found that when people at risk for diabetes changed their lifestyles, their chances of developing the disease dropped by 58 percent compared with people who did little except to take a placebo.
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-22 00:00:00
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[Title] => ‘Sambong’ good for kidney problems
[Summary] => Laboratory and clinical studies recently revealed that sambong – a medicinal plant found in the Philippines – is safer than many manufactured medicines sold over the counter.
Sambong has been proven to be an effective diuretic and can increase a patient’s urine volume by an average of 60 percent. The plant enhances the body’s natural ability to increase urine volume and thus, helps get rid of excess body fluids.
[DatePublished] => 2001-07-09 00:00:00
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