Tibetan Medicine Plurality

Salick, Jan; Byg, Anja; Amend, Anthony S.; Gunn, Bee F.; Law, Wayne; Schmidt, Heidi H.

doi:10.1663/0013-0001(2006)60[227:tmp]2.0.co;2

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“…Each person was shown a set of 23 pictures of plants representing 20 species of vascular plants, one fungus and one lichen (Table 1) selected 1) for a range of commonality (common to rare) in alpine areas around the villages, 2) for their use in formal Tibetan medicine, 3) based on previous interviews with Tibetan doctors and herbalists (Salick et al 2006;Law and Salick 2007), 4) in consultation with literature (Yang 1989), and 5) for the availability of high quality photographs which were made into laminated cards. Some of the plants were important market commodities while others had only little or no economic value (Table 1).…”

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“…Even in societies with highly formalised medicinal systems there often remains a layer of folk medicinal knowledge and practices that people rely on for the treatment of less serious illnesses and health problems frequently encountered in daily life (Kleinman 1984). Here we present first results on the use of selected medicinal plants among lay Tibetans in five villages near Mount Khawa Karpo in Northwest Yunnan and contrast it with the use of plants among representatives of the more well-studied formal Tibetan medical system and local Tibetan doctors (Salick et al 2006). The use and knowledge of Tibetan medicine amongst villagers has so far received little attention, leaving incomplete our understanding of Tibetan medicine in all its many facets as well as of Tibetans' health care practices in present day China.…”

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Medicinal Plant Knowledge Among Lay People in Five Eastern Tibet Villages

2010

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Tibetans in five villages in the Mount Khawa Karpo area of the Menri (Meili Xueshan in Chinese) range, Northwest Yunnan, People's Republic of China, were interviewed about their knowledge of a number of medicinal plants and their uses. There was large variation in people's knowledge with significant differences among the villages and between men and women. Most of the reported knowledge focused on a small number of commercial plants and their uses. In comparison with Tibetan doctors, villagers generally knew fewer applications and focused on general health remedies. Many people collected medicinal plants for their own use as well as for sale, but also obtained medicinal plant remedies from markets and Tibetan doctors, and often used traditional Tibetan healthcare in conjunction with biomedical treatment.

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Medicinal Plant Knowledge Among Lay People in Five Eastern Tibet Villages

2010

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“…Nonetheless, it is interesting to note that these education systems do not differ greatly from each other, suggesting that local Tibetan medicine has a coherent base. However, medicinal plants vary significantly on a broader scale (Salick et al 2006), for example only 16 of the 78 plants from this study appear in Kletter and Kriechbaum (2001), which concentrates on Lhasa based Tibetan medicines.…”

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Comparing Conservation Priorities for Useful Plants Among Botanists and Tibetan Doctors

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2006

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Perspectives of diverse constituencies need to be incorporated when developing conservation strategies. In Menri (Medicine Mountains) of the Eastern Himalayas, Tibetan doctors and professional botanists were interviewed about conservation of useful plants. We compare these two perspectives and find they differ significantly in conservation priorities (Wilcoxon Signed Ranks P < 0.05), both in how they prioritized, as well as the priorities themselves. Tibetan doctors first consider which plants are most important to their medical practice and, then secondarily, the conservation status of these plants. Additionally, perceptions of threatened medicinal plants differ among Tibetan doctors who received medical training in Lhasa, who were local trained, and who were self-taught. In contrast, professional botanists came to a consensus among themselves by first considering the conservation status of plants and then considering use. We conclude that, in order to effect community based conservation, opinions from both Tibetan doctors and professional botanists should be considered in establishing conservation priorities and sustainable conservation programs. Furthermore, we set our own research agenda based on combined perspectives.

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“…Variability in materia medica identification may also be related to practitioners' education and to the peculiar ways local medical traditions practise medicine. Thus in different areas homonyms of Tibetan medicinal plant designations often correspond to different botanical species (Boesi 2004: 297-304;Salick et al 2006). This explains why the identification of paper plants may vary according to different sources.…”

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confidence: 99%