Salick, Jan; Byg, Anja; Amend, Anthony; Gunn, Bee; Law, Wayne; Schmidt, Heidi. “Tibetan Medicine Plurality.” Economic Botany. 60 (3): 227-253. 2006.
This article overviews the centralization and standardization of Tibetan medicine. In past history Tibet relied on medical canons and medical practices passed down through ancestors. The authors use past history and present standardization to investigate how much medical plants have varied in contemporary Tibetan medicine. Salick gathers data from fifteen Tibetan medicinal institutions, markets, doctors, and two non-Tibetan markets. The four districts they define are: government Tibetan medical Institutions in Lhasa and elsewhere, local herbal doctors in the eastern Himalayas, Tibetan medicinal markets in Lhasa and near Mt. Khawa Karop, and non-Tibetan medicinal markets near Dali and Kunming. The purpose is to document the plurality of Tibetan medical traditions (official, local and market) also differentiating them from non-Tibetan markets. This article will help me in my project to understand the similarities and changes in historic and contemporary Tibetan medicine. It helped me understand that medicine widely varies from location to location. I am curious to see how Bylakuppe is unique in its natural medicine. Is it more uniform with other Tibetan settlements? Does it follow a lot of the Tibetan Buddhist medicinal practices? Do those in Bylakuppe tend to self treat according to their ancestral medicine practices or is it more hospitalized now?
No comments:
Post a Comment