MANILA, March 1 -- The National Integrated Research Program on Medicinal Plants-Institute of Herbal Medicine (NIRPROMP-IHM) has presented medicines made from plants in the recent Philippine Pharma and Healthcare Expo in Pasay City.

The new medicines have gone through the required pre-clinical trials and various phases of clinical testing as required by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for medicine formulations.

These medicines include ulasimang bato, yerba buena, ampalaya and tsaang gubat.

Ulasimang bato (pansit-pansitan or pepper elder) can be used as a drug to treat hyperuricemia or high uric acid in the blood.

"The ones taken by patients and patients who took ulasimang bato did not experience side effects," Technology Transfe...