Research and investigation in medicine of Baima Tibetan in Pingwu Sichuan.
- Author:
Zhi-Rong SUN
1
;
Yuan DU
;
Yu-Zhao TAO
;
Yao-Jun YANG
;
Ying HE
;
Hong-Quan SU
;
Wen-Jie LIU
Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH: China; ethnology; Drug Therapy; Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; Drugs, Chinese Herbal; adverse effects; therapeutic use; Humans; Medicine, Tibetan Traditional; instrumentation; methods; Rural Health; ethnology; Tibet
- From: China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica 2012;37(23):3669-3672
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVETo investigate and collect medicinal resources and methods of prevention and treatment of diseases in Baima Tibetan of Pingwu Sichuan in order to rescue and protect the ethenological medicine.
METHODThrough visiting, field survey in four ethnic townships of Baima Tibetan in Pingwu Sichuan as well as referring literatures to collect information and data analysis of them the investigation was carried out.
RESULTThe investigation area showed rich medical resources. Rheumatism, stomach disease, pharyngitis and trauma are local common diseases which caused by local climate, diet and life style and so on. The Baima Tibetan are good at using local herb singly and simply to treat disease, using cold water medicine and powder snuffing are their own characters.
CONCLUSIONIt is an extremely urgent issue to rescue Baima Tibetan medicine which is disappearing by the influence of the Han nationality culture.