Medicine traditional Tibetan

The medicine traditional Tibetan is one of oldest medicines in the world. She uses up to two thousand types of plants and fifty minerals. One of the key personalities in its development was the doctor Yutok Yonten Gonpo (VIIIe century) famous, who produced the Four Tantras Médicaux integrating the material of the medical traditions of Persia, India and of China. Will tantras include/understand a total of 156 chapters in the form of Thangkas, which says antiquated medicine Tibetan and the gasolines of medicines in the other places.

The descendant of Yutok Yonten Gonpo, Yuthok Sarma Yonten Gonpo, consolidated of advantage the tradition by adding 18 medical work. One of its books includes tables painting to give it at the initial state of a broken bone. Moreover, it compiled a series of anatomical images of internal bodies.

Medicine Tibetan is a traditional medical system which employs a complex approach of diagnosis, incorporating techniques such as analyzes pulses and urine. The doctor Tibetan (Amchi) gives councils of modification of behavior and dietetics. The medicines made starting from medicinal herbs and of minerals; physical therapies (e.g. acupuncture Tibetan, moxabustion, etc) are used to treat the patient.

The medical system Tibetan is based on a synthesis of the knowledge Indien (Ayurveda), Persan (Unani), Greek, indigenous Tibetan, and the Chinese medical systems. It continues has to be practiced with the Tibet, in India, with the Nepal, the Bhutan, the Ladakh, in Siberia, China, Mongolia and Bouriatie, just as more recently in parts of Europe and North America. It is related to the tradition Bouddhiste according to which any disease results ultimately from “three poisons” of the spirit: the excessive desire, hatred and ignorance.

Medicine Tibetan proposes a specific definition of health in its theoretical texts. To be in good health, according to the medical theory Tibetan, it is necessary to maintain a balance in the body of three principles of function often “badly” translated like “humors”: RLüng (pron. Loong, wind), mKhris Pa (pron. Tri-Pa, the bile), and Bad-kan (pron. Pay-gen, the phegme).

• RLüng is the source of the capacity of the body to circulate of the physical substances (e.g. blood), energy (e.g. nervous impulses of system), and not-physics (e.g. thoughts). There are five categories distinct from rLung each with the specific sites and functions: Srog- 'Dzin rLung , Gyen-rGyu rLung , Khyab-Byed rLung , Me-mNyam rLung , Thur-Salt rLung .

• MKhris-Pa is characterized by the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of heat, and is the source of many functions such as thermoregulation, the metabolism, the function of the liver and intellectual discrimination. There are five categories distinct from mKhris-Pa each with the specific sites and functions: Ju-Byed mKhris-Pa , sGrub-Byed mKhris-Pa , mDangs-sGyur mKhris-Pa , mThong-Byed mKhris-Pa , mDog-Salt mKhris-Pa .

• Bad-kan is characterized by the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of cold, and is the source of many functions such as aspects of digestion, the maintenance of our physical structure, the health of our articulations and our mental stability. There are five categories distinct from Bad-kan chaquune with the specific sites and functions: rTen-Byed Bad-kan , Myag-byed Bad-kan , Myong-Byed Bad-kan , Tsim-Byed Bad-kan , Byor-Byed Bad-kan .

See too

External bonds

  • Medicinetibet.org
  • Shang Shung Institute Medical School
  • Men-Tsee-Khang (The Tibetan Medical and Astrological Institute)
  • Tibetanmedicine.com
  • Dharma Haven
  • Yuthog.org
  • The New Yuthok Institute for Tibetan medicine
  • medical Ayurvijnana-periodical one indo-Tibetan cultures
  • Information one Ethnomedicine and Traditional Tibetan Medicine
  • Tibetanmedicine-edu.org
  • Building has Means Of Discourse For Integrative Medicine has Tibetan Medical Prospect One Irritable Bowel Syndrome

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