Doctors and scientists at the institution are conducting exhaustive studies on the classification of useful species based on traditional medicine, so-called three-dimensional anthropometry and other novel methods, it said.

One of the most outstanding successes of the hospital, it noted, was the completion of a clinical study for the treatment of chronic prostatitis. Also, the manufacture of equipment and the creation of scientific methods for curing various pathologies from medicinal plants.

Recently, KCNA itself reported that this year almost two million trees and medicinal plants were planted in the country to strengthen herbal and traditional medicine based on the popular knowledge on the use of the active principles of the flora.

At the same time, research is progressing on the cultivation and healing properties of plants as an alternative to conventional medicine.

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