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PSHS Students Complete Their Internship at Herbanext

herbanext herbarium Last May 6, 2012, a total of 13 students from the Philippine Science High School (PSHS) Iloilo Campus completed their 30-day Summer Science Internship Program (SSIP) at the Herbanext Laboratory and Farms in Bago City. This outreach program of Herbanext is part of its commitment to promote interest in natural products research among the most academically gifted high school students in Region 6. PSHS is the country’s top academic institution for high school science education with students belonging to the top 0.1% of the population in terms of aptitude in science and mathematics, and is an attached agency of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).

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Herbarium and Medicinal Herb Museum Soon to Rise at The Quiet Place Farm Resort

herbanext herbarium From its humble beginnings in 2010 as an internship project for 3rd year students of Philippine Science High School - Iloilo Campus, Herbanext’s collection of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) at The Quiet Place Farm Resort has gradually expanded in size and diversity.

This summer, a new batch of Philippine Science students guided by professional botanists from the University of the Philippines in the Visayas (UPV) will be laying the ground work for the establishment of a herbarium at The Quiet Place Farm Resort. The goal is to establish a reference herbarium and a formal ethnomedicinal garden of native Philippine medicinal plants as well as introduced species for the benefit ecologists, botany students, natural products researchers, and industry practitioners in Negros Island and neighboring Panay Island. The project intends to also highlight the endemic plant species from the threatened forests of Negros.

International Symposium on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Held in Chiang Mai

The International Symposium on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants was recently held last December 15-18, 2011 at the Empress Hotel in Chaing Mai, Thailand, after a one month postponement due to the heavy flooding that affected the country. Despite the postponement, the event, organized by Thailand’s Department of Agriculture, Horticultural Science Society of Thailand, and the International Society for Horticultural Science, was a success and was attended by over 200 researchers mainly from Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Japan, India, and countries in the Mediterranean region.

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Link up with businessmen, Ilonggo inventor tells colleagues

DOST S&T Service
By Framelia Anonas
20 October 2011

Iloilo City --- Drawing on his own experience in making a crack in competitions and in the market, Philip Cruz, president of Herbanext Incorporated, told Ilonggo inventors to improve their craft and learn from business people. Cruz is one of the breed of inventors who successfully crossed over from mind to market with his practical inventions, including the awarded kinetic fish feeder.

“Invent and re-invent,” the Negros-based Cruz told to an audience of established and budding inventors from the Western Visayas during opening of the Regional Invention Contest and Exhibit at the Amigo Plaza Mall in Iloilo City.

DOST’s RICE paves way for inventors to showcase technologies

Philippine Information Agency
By Lilibeth A. French


DOST RICE 2011 INVENTION CONTEST & EXHIBITS. See keynote message.

The Department of Science and Technology has created an opportunity for inventors in the region to showcase their new inventions, researches and technologies through the first Regional Invention Contest and Exhibits (RICE) which opened October 19 in this city.

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Welcome to Herbanext Inc.

Company Profile

The story begins with one man’s personal interest in combating the debilitating effects of high cholesterol and gout using natural products. Scientist-Inventor and 2005 TOYM (Ten Outstanding Young Men) Awardee Philip Cruz, became interested in the healing potential of mushrooms and started to research on the different varieties known for their effectiveness. One mushroom in particular caught his attention: Ganoderma lucidum, a polypore mushroom found growing on dead logs in the deep forests of the Orient. Known as Ling Zhi by the Chinese and Reishi by the Japanese, this mushroom was so revered in the Chinese Medicine Almanac that at one time it was thought to be an elixir of longevity and was exclusive only to the Emperor and the royal family.

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Ganoderma Lucidum

Considered as the elixir of life in the golden ages of China, Ganoderma lucidum is so rare and so precious that it is reserved to the emperors and other high ranking officials of old times. It is one of the most popular herbs in the East Asian countries and its uses extends to almost different systems in the body. Ganoderma Chinese and Korean name “Ling Zhi” is synonymous to “mushroom of herb and immortality”.

It is use as anti- oxidants, anti-cancer, anti hypertension, anti lipids and for treatment of other diseases. Recent studies in vitro also revealed that Ganoderma has demonstrated an anti-HIV protease activity that could be a breakthrough in treating HIV infection.

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"Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live."
Socrates, 469-399 BC, Classical Greek philosopher

"I firmly believe that in diet will be found the key to the solution of nine tenths of the social and political problems that vex our age and time."
Alexander Haig, M.D., famous English pathologist
Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food.
Hippocrates, 460 BC
370 BC, Greek physician, father of modern medicine

 

Nature cures, not the physician.
Hippocrates, 460 BC
370 BC, Greek physician, father of modern medicine

 

"No illness which can be treated by diet should be treated by any other means.
Maimonides, 1135-1204, Jewish philosopher

 

If it cannot be in your food, then it cannot be in your medicine.
Chinese Proverb

 

When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.
Ayurvedic Proverb

 

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
Lin Yutang, 1895-1976, Chinese writer

 

If the doctors of today do not become the nutritionists of tomorrow, then the nutritionists of today will become the doctors of tomorrow.
Rockefeller Institute of Medicine Research

 

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.
English Proverb

 

The only way a rich man can be healthy is by exercise and abstinence living like a poor man.
Sir William Temple 1628 - 1699

 

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them.
Ecclesiasticus 38:4

 

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
Victor Hugo
1802 - 1885

 

He that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the skill of the physician. 
Chinese Proverb



He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Arabian Proverb

 

Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
Marcus Valerius Martial (March 1, between 38 and 41 AD - between 102 and 104 AD)

 

The nearest thing to perpetual motion is the heart. Guard it well. When it stops, you stop.
Author Unknown

 

Obesity is a widening problem.
Daniel Worona

 

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