Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act (No. 23 of 2002). Country/Territory United Republic of Tanzania Document type Legislation Date 2002 Source FAO, FAOLEX Long titleAn Act to make provisions for promotion, control and regulation of traditional and alternative medicines practice, to establish the Tradional and Alternative Health Practice Council and to provide for related matters. Subject Cultivated plants, Wild species & ecosystems Keyword Plant production Registration Wild flora Collecting/harvesting Geographical area Africa, Eastern Africa, Least Developed Countries Abstract This Act regulates traditional and alternative medicines practice and establishes the Traditional and Alternative Health Practice Council. The functions of the Council shall generally be to monitor, regulate, promote, support the development of traditional medicine and to implement the provisions of the Act and in particular shall, among other things, provide for the protection of Tanzanian medicinal plants, and other natural resources of medicinal value, such as animals, minerals, aquatic and marine products including their parts thereof. It shall protect medicinal plants grown within the country and provide for sustainable management, utilization and development of material medical used in traditional medicine, mostly plants. Also the Minister shall be instrumental in the protection of medicinal plants by establishing or strengthening the national medicinal plants databank or compendiums. Full text English