Pharmaceutical science is the basis of practical Tibetan medicine which studies all variety of therapeutic agents consisting of ingredients of botanical, mineral and animal nature. In total there’s 1300 kinds of botanical medicaments, 114 kinds of minerals and metals and up to 150 kinds of products of animal nature. In Mongolia and Buryatia Tibetan formulations are completed with the therapeutic agents of local origin. The medicaments are hand made by emchi-lamas and huvaraks (their disciples), people with knowledge of medical science.
The medicaments of Tibetan medicine always have mixed formulas and consist of the big number of herbs, minerals and ingredients of animal nature. Usually there’s between 4 and 25, sometimes up to 60 components in their formulation.
The Tibetan doctors defined the medicaments’ curative effect with the help of four factors: taste, the effect after absorbing, the power of curative effect and the summarized action of their combinations. There are different forms of medicaments in the Tibetan medicine, just like in the modern pharmacology such as restorative drinks, powders, pills, syrups (“de gu”), concentrated extracts (“khan da”), ashes, medicaments made of jewels. They all go through the complex processing, long boiling and firing. The therapeutic agent is usually reduced to fragments in the metal boxes with the beater or in the special device looking like a wooden backet with the metal arbor. Later the prepared, well-dried and carefully fragmented into the powder agent is filtered through the silk fabrics and mixed for a long time. The maximum transfusion of the components and the mutual growth of their effectiveness take place as a result of it.
If one keeps the medicine correctly, the process of components’ transfusion intensifies and its effectiveness grows. For this purpose the special pockets for keeping the therapeutic agents were made. They look like the narrow long-drawn small bags made of well-processed leather and tied with the leather lace in the upper part. Each leather pocket had a small wooden tablet with the medicine’s title in Tibetan hanging on it.
The medicaments of Tibetan medicine always have mixed formulas and consist of the big number of herbs, minerals and ingredients of animal nature. Usually there’s between 4 and 25, sometimes up to 60 components in their formulation.
The Tibetan doctors defined the medicaments’ curative effect with the help of four factors: taste, the effect after absorbing, the power of curative effect and the summarized action of their combinations. There are different forms of medicaments in the Tibetan medicine, just like in the modern pharmacology such as restorative drinks, powders, pills, syrups (“de gu”), concentrated extracts (“khan da”), ashes, medicaments made of jewels. They all go through the complex processing, long boiling and firing. The therapeutic agent is usually reduced to fragments in the metal boxes with the beater or in the special device looking like a wooden backet with the metal arbor. Later the prepared, well-dried and carefully fragmented into the powder agent is filtered through the silk fabrics and mixed for a long time. The maximum transfusion of the components and the mutual growth of their effectiveness take place as a result of it.
If one keeps the medicine correctly, the process of components’ transfusion intensifies and its effectiveness grows. For this purpose the special pockets for keeping the therapeutic agents were made. They look like the narrow long-drawn small bags made of well-processed leather and tied with the leather lace in the upper part. Each leather pocket had a small wooden tablet with the medicine’s title in Tibetan hanging on it.
