Myongbang-brand Koryo Medicines

The Myongbang Pharmaceutical Factory is a unit which produces Koryo medicines developed by the Koryo Medicine General Hospital, widely known as the centre of traditional medicine in the DPRK.

In 1990 when the factory was founded, its major production indexes were medicines made of ginkgo leaf extract developed and standardized by Prof. Kim Jong Gil, PhD, candidate academician and researcher at the Koryo Medicines Institute of the Koryo Medicine General Hospital.

Every year the factory collects gingko leaves in the mountains and fields far away from the capital city and obtains extract from them through several separation processes for use in production. 

The Gingko Leaf Cardiac Injection and Gingko Leaf Cardiac Tincture won the national quality authentication certificates, and the method of obtaining gingko leaf extract was awarded the February 16 Sci-Tech Prize, the top sci-tech prize of the country.

Manager Choe Jang Un said: Myongbang, the brand of our factory’s products, denotes correct diagnosis. It is our factory’s invariable goal to produce better, faster and in a larger amount the new medicines developed by the competent Koryo medicine research group as suited to the physical constitutions and characteristics of the Korean people.

The factory has earned fame with its patented products which help improve overall functions of organs. The patented products include insam and barrenwort anti-cancer pill which is made by processing over 30 natural Koryo medicinal materials, including world-famous Koryo insam, barrenwort, Cortex eleutherococcus and Prunnella vulgavis, with cutting-edge bioengineering technology. Their medicinal effects are tens of times higher and faster in the rate of the reaction of the body to the medicines.