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I. Functions and tasks:
 National
institute for meteria medica is national leading institute to
research the pharmacological materials, mostly medicinal
plants and animals.
1.
Investigating and serveying the resources for medicine, mainly
medicinal plants. Making the list of pharmacological materials
through the country.
2. Researching the
medicinal material resources for pharmaceutical industry and
traditional medicine including immigration, tameness, seed
selection, new seed creation, storage, regrow and protection
of the genetic resources of the medicinal plant and essential
oil plants for production.
3. Researching the chemical components, pharmacology and
clinical trials in order to evaluate the curative effects of
domestic medicinal plants and essential oil plants; Inheriting
and upgrading the traditional medicine experiences in order to
create the new materials for drugs and cosmetics and the new
high effective preparations of drugs.
4. Educating and training for postgraduated learners, Ph.D and
M.S in pharmacognosy and pharmacology.
5. Communicating and disseminating the use and development of
medicinal plants and essential oil plants for drug.
6. Transfering the technologies and scientific services on
seed and grow technologies; qualifying, quantifying and
extracting the chemical components from medicinal plants;
trying the pharmacological activities and toxicities;
establishing the standards of medicinal plants.
7. Producing some high effective drugs; supplying the
oringinal seed of medicinal plants and essential oil plants.
8. The domestic and international cooperation in science and
technology.
 Organizational
structure and personnel:
1. The medicinal plants resources
department
2. The phytochemical department
3. The biochemical and pharmacological department
4. The standard analysis department
5. Dispensing department
6. The experimental extract department
7. The Ha Noi center for medicinal plant grow and dispensing
8. The cellular tissue culture department
9. The Sapa center for medicinal plant grow and dispensing
10. The TamDao center for medicinal plant growth and
dispensing
11. The Ho Chi Minh center for medicinal plant and panax
gingseng
12. Dalat center for medicinal plant grow and dispensing
13. Center for pharmacognosy library and information
Manpower: 197 in which
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Assistant professor: 3
- Ph.D: 22
- M.S: 15
- M.D and phar: 74
- Others: 83
Researching activity:
Investigation
and collection of medicinal plants:
- Investigation and collection of
medicinal plant through the country
- Researching on the grow
+ Immigrating many medicinal plants from abroad (Europe, China
and India... etc...)
+ Researching on grow of wild-medicinal plants
+ Growing the medicinal plants for production and export
Some
researched drugs from medicinal plants:
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Anti-dysentery
- Antibiotic
- Anti allergy
- Anti malaria
- Drugs for gastrointestinal hepatic and urinary diseases.
- Antripyretic, anti flu and anti anxiolytic
- Obstetric and gynaecological drugs.
- Drugs for endocrine system such as diabetes
- Drugs for cardiovascular diseases.
- Drugs for immunological system and supporting the anticancer
treatment
From 1986 to 2000 there are 184
themes implemented as follows:
National projects: 25
Ministry projects: 24
Local projects: 135
Some major results of research:
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1971-1975: 1120 species and 193 family names are investigated
in which 300-400 species belong the list of medicinal plants
have being exploited and traded.
- 1976-1985: 1548 species belong 225 family names have been
investigated; 80% among them are wild plants. 4000 species
have been investigated through the country and 10.000 samples
were stored.
- Many reference and introduction textbooks were published for
medicinal plants resources by English, French, Russia and
Vietnamese.
- 70 species were immigrated and tamed for pharmaceutical
industry, traditional medicine and export.
- 50 drugs have being researched and applied to production.
Some of them are good effects such as Artemisinine (anti
malaria), Bidentin (cholesterol lowering), Rancaxin
(anti-hypertension), Abilin (anti hepatitis), Idotamin() Rutin
C (anti haemorrhagic fever), D-strophantin (cardiovascular
drug), Diosgenin (material for steroid synthesis), Hai na
(anti hepatotis)... etc...
- 11 production processes of drug are being transfered to
pharmaceutical factories through the country.
Post graduation training:
Training the Ph.Ds belong two
professions as follows:
- Pharmacognosy and traditional
medicine.
- Pharmacology.
- NIMM also participates to teach researchers on other
specialities.
Researchers, trainees come from
foreign countries such as Cuba, Laos, ...etc...
International
cooperation:
NIMM cooperates with
many international organization and foreign countries such as
soviet union (former), Germany, China, India, Hungary, South
Korea, Japan, France and Thai Lan ... etc... NIMM participates
many the international conference on pharmacognosy. |
