A private, non-profit, scientific, medical-healthcare
and promotional association, legally incorporated
in Lima in 1983, at the initiative of a foreign patient who
had come to this country to receive the benefits of traditional
medicinal plants recommended by Edmund Szeliga, sdb.

During the past twenty years IPIFA has been applying
the teachings and basic therapeutic methods of this Polish salesian
priest, a pioneer in Peruvian phytotherapy and founder of IPIFA, who passed away in Lima on September 3, 2005

So far, IPIFA’s licensed physicians have treated about 50,000 patients
with medicinal plants from the Andean and Amazon regions.

The scientific research of medicinal plants and other natural resources, particularly from Andean countries.
	The therapeutic use, spreading and promotion of phytotherapy as well as other duly validated complementary therapies.
The organic cultivation, processing, industrialization and marketing of natural resources to sustain the association, so as to enable it to operate as a laboratory, a pharmacy, etc.

The development of cultural activities: educational, artistic, literary and sporting activities related to the institution’s aims.

Any other activity that may contribute to or is related to such aims.

Coordinator: Miss Constanza Barera C.
Phyto-Pharmacy Regulator: Dr. Katia Peralta H.

IPIFA Staff Chaclacayo (Lima)

IPIFA is duly registered under Electronic Card No. 11022511
in the Register Office of Lima and Callao (ORLC) Lima Office

Registry of Legal Entities, as well as in the Peruvian Ministry of Health.

Furthermore, the legal rights to the IPIFA Trademark have been duly
registered by means of Certificate No. 00022073, as well as Certificate No. 00041746,
of the National Institute for the Protection of Free Competition
and Intellectual Property – INDECOPI.