Tibetan Medicine Defying Time

Tibetan medicine is a centuries-old hallowed traditionalaggression and materialism.Tibetan medicine is an art,
medical system. This is a fairly complex approach toscience and philosophy that encompasses a holistic
diagnosis and utilizes behavior and dietary modification,approach to health care. It is an art because its
natural medicines and physical therapies to treatdiagnostic methods are based on creativity, subtlety,
illnesses. Since Tibet is a border country, Tibetaninsight and compassion of the medical practitioner. It is
medicine is a synthesis of the Indian (Ayurveda),a science because it has a systematic and logical
Persian (Unani), Chinese, Greek and Tibetan medicalframework that is based on the study of the body and
systems. Tibetan medicine is practiced in a wide beltits relationship with the environment. It is a philosophy
of the world including countries like India, Nepal, Bhutan,because it embraces the Buddhist principles of altruism,
Ladakh, Siberia, China and Mongolia, in addition to Tibet.ethics and karma.According to the underlying Buddhist
More recently, Tibetan medicine has also startedphilosophy that shapes Tibetan medicine, all suffering
seeping into the West, invading parts of Europe andhas a reason. According to the Buddha, impermanence
America.Since Tibet is the land of monasteries, monksis the only permanent feature of life. Everything in this
and meditation, it is inevitable that Tibetan medicine is aworld is in a state of flux. This is a reality and a
fusion of the scientific with the religious. It embracesnecessity of life. This state of constant change brings
the traditional Buddhist belief that illness of the body iswith it suffering and it is this suffering that is inflicted on
caused by the poisons in the mind, namely ignorance,man from time to time. Thus suffering is not accidental.