Tibetan Medicine

Herbal medicine past and present, vol. 1, Trying to give ease

Tom Dummer is an English osteopath who compares Tibetan medicine with such Western alternative systems as Western herbalism, homeopathy, and osteopathy. The first part of the book, however, is taken up by the Buddhist view of the body in relation to the universe, Buddhist cosmology, Tantric physiology, and Buddhist psychological counselling. Here the ancient teachings are evaluated from the mod...

Tibetan medicine today. Neo-traditionalism as an analytical lens and a political tool

Notwithstanding a marked increase in academic publications pertaining to the contemporary dynamics of Tibetan medicine in the past two decades, the light cast in this domain by the social sciences is still diffuse and the corresponding studies are scattered. There is no specialized work that thoroughly examines this medicine in diverse regions for a given period and, a remarkable fact, Tibetan ...

Below the radar innovations and emerging property right approaches in Tibetan medicine

Outside the established legal framework of intellectual property rights, countries have pursued multiple pathways to protect and promote traditional medicine. As Tibetan medicine is a late entrant into commercialization, the proposals to propertize generally fall within the rationale of existing sui-generis paradigms of Intellectual property. In this context, the article enquires the state of i...

Tibetan Medicine in Gyalthang

Double Intestinal Intussusception due to Acute Enteritis in a Young Tibetan Spaniel Dog

Abstract Case Description A six-month-old female Tibetan spaniel dog with repeated rectal prolapse and unsuccessful treatments was referred to the clinic of faculty of veterinary medicine of Razi University (Kermanshah, Iran). With regarding the patient’s history colopexy was done through celiotomy incision, but 3 days later the patient referred again with recurrence of prol...

Islamic talismanic tradition in nineteenth-century Asante

interrelated combination of philosophy and practice" (p. 41). When speaking of conception, Trogawa accepts the Western biological notion of the union of semen and ovum (p. 48), which, as pointed out by Nawang Dakpa in his paper, 'Certain problems of embryology according to the Tibetan medical tradition' (pp. 82-95), is unknown to traditional Tibetan medicine (p. 84). Nawang Dakpa deals with som...