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Vision
To help maintain and improve the health of the people of the Kingdom of Cambodia,
with a focus on remote areas and the poorer segment of the population, through
access to and rational use of affordable, quality, safe and effective Traditional
Medicine practices and products.

Mission
To ensure that quality, safe and effective Traditional Medicine practices and products
are made available to the people through the nation’s health care system.

Objective
 Promote traditional medicine profession for the benefits of the health sector,
society and economy
 Implement formal and non-formal trainings
 Raw materials and products:
- Conserve and develop natural resources and biodiversities in the
country to ensure potential and sustainability of the needs for raw materials and
traditional medicine products;
- Regulate the production and distribution of traditional medicine
products to ensure quality, effectiveness and safety according to the standards and
based on scientific basis.
 Research, information dissemination and national and international cooperation

Current Task of National center of Traditional Medicine
1. Strengthen and development legislation
2. Education and Training
3. Raw materials and products
4. Publishing traditional Medicine book
5. Strengthen national and International Cooperation

The Principle of Traditional Khmer Medicine

Four elements of the body:
TKM and Buddhism believed the
same that the body is composed by
four essential elements:
- Water = “Tek”
- Earth =“ Dey”
- Fire =“Phleung”
- Air = “Kachal”