Healing from the Source: The Science and Lore of Tibetan Medicine - Softcover

Dhonden, Yeshi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559391480 ISBN 13: 9781559391481

Publisher: Snow Lion, 2000

Synopsis

In this remarkable contemporary presentation of the theory and practice of Tibetan medicine, Dr. Yeshi Dhonden, twenty years the personal physician of H. H. the Dalai Lama, draws from over fifty years of practicing and teaching this ancient tradition of healing. This volume vividly presents a series of lectures Dr. Dhonden gave before a group of health care professionals at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. This lecture series was presented during the planning stages of a research project at the University of California San Francisco to test Dr. Dhonden's medical treatment for metastatic breast cancer. (This research project caught the interest of NBC's Dateline, which filmed an hour-long documentary of it that aired in January 2000.) Dr. Dhonden elucidates the holistic Tibetan medical view of health and disease, referring to traditional Tibetan medical sources as well as his own experiences as a doctor practicing in Tibet India and numerous countries throughout Europe and America. His presentation is delightfully complemented by many anecdotes drawing from the ancient lore of popular folk medicine in Tibet. For health care professionals, anthropologists, historians of medicine, medical ethicists, and the general public interested in Tibetan medicine, this book is a fascinating contribution by one of the foremost practitioners of Tibetan medicine in the modern world.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Dr. Donden gives an introduction to the Tibetan medical system, its perspective on the body as well as the nature of illness, to Western medical practitioners. Chapters imclue the topics of: the digestive process, the humors, and the classification of disease. He goes on to discuss particular issues such as AIDS and cancer and finally how to improve one's lifestyle to encourage health. His discussions are particularly interesting because he brings his many years of personal experience into his presentation.

About the Author:

Dr. Yeshe Dhonden was trained by the Venerable Dr. Khyenrab Norbu (1883–1962), personal physician to Holinesses the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Dalai Lamas and founder of the Men-Tsee-Khang and Tibetan Medical and Astrology Institute in Tibet. He has conducted research at the University of Virginia and has conducted clinical trials at the University of California San Francisco.

About this edition

• Publisher: Snow Lion
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1559391480
• ISBN 13: 9781559391481
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Wallace B. Alan