Plant Monographs

Kriechbaum, Kletter. "Tibetan Medicinal Plants". Medpharm: Boca Raton, Florida. 2001. Print.

The author gives a brief history of Tibetan medicine, medicine in exile, diet, plants, and fundamentals of collecting, storing and using the plants. Kriechbaum goes on to give plant monographs of over 50 medicinal plants. This article will be very benificial in finding out the uses of various medicinal plants and Tibetan medicine in excile as it applies to my Cultural History of Medicinal Plants in Bylakuppe, India.

Transformations of Tibetan Medicine

Janes, Craig R. "The Transformations of Tibetan Medicine". Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 1995. 9(1): 6-29

This aritcle presents a cultural and historical analysis of 20th century Tibetan medicine. While Tibetan medicine has acceeded instituational modernitity through transformations in theory, pactice and methods for training they have not yielded completly to the Chinese state moderization policies. This article will be very benificial in writing my preliminary report for my Cultural History of Medicinal Plants in Bylakupe paper. I understand that practices and methods do change with time and this paper will be able to outline this for me.