Basic introduction in Tibetan Medicine, well worth buying (and reading) this excellent book by Dr, Tamdin sither Bradley, a Tibetan doctor trained at the Tibetan Medical and Astrological Institute of Dharamsala, India and now living in the UK where she has a clinic. *** Tibet is called Men-Jong, the land of Medicine. Before the Chinese invaded Tibet in 1950 there were over 300 species of medicinal plants which grew in Tibet and their supply was plentiful. However, when a survey was conducted in 1990 many were found to be extinct including white sedum, frittillaria, codonopsis nervosa, angelica and panax pseudo. The remaining medicinal plants were also found to be in greatly reduced amounts of supply. This was especially the case for the Kongpo region of Tibet and Lhamo Lhatso (the sacred lake where the birth of the 14th Dalai Lama was foreseen). In these places many Chinese come to stay for three months and take a powerful medicinal plant tonic called ya-tsa-gun-bu (summer grass winter worm). In eastern Tibet from an area in Kham --called Kye-gu-Dho -- 176.785 kilos of this tonic has been exported by the Chinese and in the Tibetan Autonomous Region since 1962 122.850 kilos of frittillary has been taken. Between 1958 and 1966 in the Kham are of Balung Zong the Chinese took over one million kilos of medicinal plants including wickweed (sheeps jaw) heracleum lallii root and codonopsis nervosa. !!! All of these plants were dug up from the roots with no programme. of replanting. !!!! These actions by the Chinese have had a very destructive effect on the Tibetan environment and on the future supply of Tibetan herbal medicine. (and now, in 2014, the situation in Tibet is even much more worse than the above statements taken from the book: Tibet is being plundered and the environment and Tibetan people are the ones being robbed of their country, history, culture, lifelihood and future) aruratibetanmedicine/Product.asp?PID=11381&MATCH=1
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 06:51:24 +0000
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