Subject Matter of Protection

Article 2

"herbal medicines" means plant derived material or preparations with the therapeutic or other human benefits, which contain either raw or processed ingredients from one or more plants; in some traditions material of in organic or animal origin may also be present;

"traditional medicine" means a total combination of knowledge and practice, whether applicable or not, used in diagnosing, preventing or eliminating a physical, mental or social disease and which may rely exclusively on past experience and observation handled down from one generation to another orally or in writing;

"traditional medicine remedy" means and includes any methods, processes, practices or any medicine consisting of a substance or a mixture of substances produced by drying, extracting, crushing or comminuting, compressing natural substance of a plant, animal or mineral origin or any part of such substances;