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Korea Koryo Pharmacy Center

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) -- The Korea Koryo Pharmacy Center on Rakwon Street in Pyongyang, is a technological hub of the country for putting the production of Koryo medicine on a modern and scientific basis. It, founded on June 3, Juche 81 (1992), covers a total floor space of nearly 3,000 square meters and has ten research rooms including Koryo medicine and production process ones.
    Some 20 percent of its staff members have academic degrees or titles.
    Over the last years the center has developed various Koryo medicines. Among them are civet injection and Angung-uhwanghwan-2 highly efficacious for cerebral thrombosis and sequelae caused by cerebral hemorrhage and p-polysaccharide injection good for preventing damage by radioactivity and spread of cancer after operation.
    Recently the research team has succeeded in developing capsule materials with indigenous raw materials, thus making Koryo medicines convenient to take.
    It has made it possible to manufacture more than 10 kinds of capsuled Koryo medicines including aphrodisiac capsule made from substances extracted from Epimedium Koreanum, motherwort capsule and Atractylodes japonica extract capsule. Meanwhile, the center has conducted researches into using medicinal herbs and natural substances in dietary life. In this course, it has standardized over 200 sorts of health food including nutritive deer bone powder for children, nutritive Job's-tears powder, Kaesong Koryo insam (ginseng) tea, Insam-Chinese matrimony vine tea, Koryo sansam(wild ginseng)-mushroom tea, Koryo sansam broth and honey mixed with pine tree pollen. More than 10 out of them have found their way to foreign market.
    The center has introduced successes made in the medical science and technology into Koryo medicine factories. It has developed Koryo medicine database helpful toward development of Koryo drug production technology to suit the IT era. And it publishes periodicals such as "Information of Koryo Pharmacy" and "Information of Health Food" and has authored and compiled various books including "Modernization of Koryo Medicine Production" and "Famous Health Food".
    Han Chang Gun, director of the center, told KCNA that it, from the stand of Juche, will further deepen the research to put Koryo pharmacy, pride of the nation, on a solid scientific basis and introduce IT into the production of Koryo medicine and thus make a positive contribution to the development of Koryo medicine.