... Himalayan poppies pángtse Pterocephalus hookeri Pterocephalus hookeri pángtse upal ngongbo Meconopsis or Himalayan poppies wild ingredients Knauft Bruce Oxford Oriental Institute Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine Dalai Lama jinden ritually consecrated pills Tibet China Nepal traditional...

... were written and key words were flourished like banners before the eyes of the surprised masses. A similar process is now being witnessed. In China, traditional medicine is now officially only valid in playpen format. It was intended for temporary use and what the Chinese had not expected was crowding...

...This chapter discusses how Afghan women have coped across the decades with physical disabilities, most of which today are the result of war and land mines, and starts by presenting an overview of traditional medicine practiced throughout Afghanistan. Western medical techniques may first have been...

...This chapter examines the impact of Chinese traditional medicine and its holistic approach to treating mental disorders, as well as the resilient history of folk illness and its explanations for inappropriate and dangerous behaviors. It argues that the persistent tendency in Korean society...

... patient through the linking of their diagnostic and pharmacologic knowledge. apothecaries pharmacists external symptoms pharmacology pharmaceutics Chinese traditional medicine diagnosis Brilliance is always connected to simple solutions. The simple solution here was the following: the same symptom...

.... Through an exploration of efficacy—What does it mean to say that Tibetan medicine “works”? —this book illustrates a biopolitics of traditional medicine in the twenty-first century. Healing Elements examines the ways in which traditional medicine interacts with biomedicine...