An encyclopedia containing about 400 different Tibetan medicine
formulas has been published by the Shanghai Science and Technology
Publishing House.
The one-million character book is the first of a multi-volume
encyclopedia designed to feature the major traditional medicines
still popular in China.
More than 40 specialists from the Pharmaceuticals Institute
attached to the Tibetan Medicine Hospital in Tibet, which is under
the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, spent 13
years compiling the book.
Tibetan medicine, like traditional Chinese and Mongolian medicine,
is based on locally produced herbs, differing greatly from
science-based Western medicine.
(People's Daily November 14, 2002)