Tibetan medicine (Tibetan medicine bath therapy)

Name of Chinese national intangible cultural heritage: Tibetan medicine (Tibetan medicine bath therapy)

Applicant: Qinghai Tibetan Hospital

Project No.: 448

Project No.: IX - 9

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional medicine

Region: Qinghai Province

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Qinghai Tibetan Hospital

Protection unit: Qinghai Tibetan Hospital

Introduction to Tibetan medicine (Tibetan medicine bath therapy)

Applicant: Qinghai Tibetan Hospital

Tibetan medicine is an important part of Chinese traditional medicine and an important representative of Chinese national medicine.

Tibetan medicine has a long history. It is the medical experience accumulated by Tibetan people in the special environment of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau. Its classic work "four medical classics" was written in the Tubo Dynasty in the second half of the 8th century. It was written by the famous Tibetan medicine expert Yutuo Gongbu on New Year's day. The combination of Tibetan medicine and Tibetan astronomy and calendar is a huge and complex medical system. Tibetan medicine is based on the theory of "water, fire, earth, wind and air" and the theory of "dragon, Chiba and Bacon". It takes the plants, animals, minerals and some "Southern medicine" of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau as the basic medicine, and adopts the practice mode of adapting to the plateau environment and nomadic life, It has a unique curative effect on common diseases, frequently occurring diseases and endemic diseases in high altitude hypoxia environment, and its health culture has been paid more and more attention by the medical community.

Due to the vast territory of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau, high mountains and steep waters, the ethnic and regional characteristics of Tibetan medicine culture are obvious, and the diagnosis, medical technology and medicine of Tibetan medicine are often different in different regions and schools. In recent decades, with the construction of Tibetan medicine and the extensive development of academic exchanges, the inheritance and promotion of Tibetan medicine have made remarkable achievements.

Tibetan medicine bath therapy is a Tibetan medicine external therapy with good curative effect summarized by Tibetan people in the long-term practice of fighting against diseases. It is also known as "five flavors of sweet dew bath". It was first recorded in the famous Tibetan medical work "four medical classics" compiled by Yutuo yundangongbu, a famous Tibetan medical expert. It has a history of more than 1300 years. There are three kinds of Tibetan medicine bath: water bath, compress bath and steam bath. Medicinal bath is the most common and commonly used. It takes five kinds of Tibetan herbal medicines, namely, Cupressus rotundifolia, Rhododendron flavescens, water cypress branch, ephedra alpiniae and Kanba, as the main medicine. After boiling with water, it is used for patients to soak and bathe. It has the effect of loosening and dredging collaterals, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, dispelling wind and dehumidification. It has excellent curative effect for the treatment of rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis and skin diseases.

Tibetan medicine bath therapy has regional and national characteristics. Its prescription, pre bath diagnosis and comprehensive treatment are all completed under the guidance of Tibetan medicine theory. Its medicinal materials are all authentic medicinal materials in the original ecological environment of the snow covered plateau. Its bath technology, seasonal choice and patient care contain Tibetan unique humanistic factors. Tibetan medicine is comprehensively used in the process of treatment Tibetan medicine diagnostics, Tibetan medicine nursing and the original traditional preparation processing technology for internal and external treatment are rare in the history of world medicine.

Tibetan medicine bath therapy is a representative skill of traditional Tibetan medicine, which is the first choice for patients and researchers all over the world to know and understand Tibetan medicine. As the Tibetan medicine bath has been taught by mouth and heart, it is urgent to further strengthen the collation and inheritance.