Complementary and alternative medicine includes biologically-based practices using herbs and vitamins; energy-medicine using magnetic fields or biofields; and mind-body medicine using mental exercises. Manipulative and body-based practices encompass therapies that use manual manipulation or movement to address structural body imbalances. The Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act of 1997 established the Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Healthcare to oversee alternative medicine practices.

1. ALTERNATIVE
MEDICINE

2. COMPLEMENTARY
and
ALTERNATIVE
MEDICINE
BIOLOGICALLY-BASED
PRACTICES
ENERGY-
MEDICINE
MIND-BODY
MEDICINE
MANIPULATIVE &
BODY-BASED PRACTICE

4. The use of substances found in
nature, such as herbs, foods,
and vitamins to strengthen,
heal, and balance the body is
considered biologically-based
practice.

5. CHINESE HERBS

6. QUIAPO HERBS

8. Manipulative and body-based
practices encompass a system
of therapies that use either
manual manipulation or
movement.

9. Manipulates one or more parts
of the body to address
structural imbalances of the
bones and joints, the soft
tissues, and the circulatory and
lymphatic systems.

10. REFLEXOLOGY

11. CHIROPRACTIC

13. Energy-medicine uses
magnetic fields or biofields
in belief that energy fields
may enter various points in
the body.

14. ACUPUNCTURE

15. QI GONG

17. Mind-body medicine uses
mental exercises in belief
that the brain is central to
the health of an individual.

18. REFLEXOLOGY

19. CHIROPRACTIC

20. REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8423
Traditional and Alternative
Medicine Act of 1997

21. Provisioned the creation of the
Philippine Institute of Traditional
and Alternative Healthcare
(PITAHC), which works closely with
the Department of Health.