Tibetan Medicine Three year Course syllabus
(Distance learning)
BASIC LEVEL: BASICS OF TIBETAN MEDICINE
(1st year)
Introduction
History
- A short history of Tibetan Medicine
- Buddhism and medicine
- Golden sutra, Buddha’s teaching on medicine
- Medicine Buddha sutra and eight medicine Buddhas
- Tanadug palace: city of medicine
- Four medicine Mountains and materia medica concept
The Gyud-shi (rGyud-bzhi)
- Gyud-shi, the Four Medical Tantras
- Gyud-shi’s content
- Framework of Gyud-shi
Basics of the Tibetan medicine
Psychology
- The mind and the emotions
Physiology of the humors and constituents (nyes pa dang lus zungs kyi bya ba)
- Nyepas, the three humors
• General and sub- wind humor functions
• General and sub- Bile humor functions
• General and sub- Phlegm humor functions - The seven body constitutions
- The digestion
- The physical body constituents
- The waste products
- The concept of health
Anatomy and subtle physiology (lus bkra dang lus kyi bya ba)
- The body and its development
- Tibetan embryology
- Similes of the body
- The vital and hollow organs and functions
- The food passages and orifices
- The general and specific channels
- The chakras
- Prognosis of death, dying and dreams
The study of the Medicine trees (sdong ‘grems)
Theory and practice guide
- Healthy and unhealthy trees
- The diagnostic tree
- The treatment tree
- Concept of the ideal health
Brief ethical code of conduct for Tibetan Physicians (man pa’i le’ u mdor bsdus)
- A short introduction on the development of the ethical code of conduct for Tibetan Physicians
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2nd year: ETIOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS AND METHOD OF TREATMENT
Etiology (nad kyi rgyu)
- General etiology (nad kyi spyi rgyu)
- The Buddhist concept on disorders
- Tibetan Medicine concept on disorders
- General cause of the disorders
- Four immediate cause of disorders (nad kyi rkyen bzhi)
- Irregular climate and seasons
- Unhealthy nutrition
- Unwholesome behavior
- Unwholesome emotions
- Development of disorders (nad ‘phel tshul)
- Six entrance gates and locations
- Three locations of the humors
- 15 pathways of manifestations
- Nine manifestation times
- Nine ways of ending life
- Unhealthy tree
- General pathology (nad)
- General classification of the diseases (nad kyi dbye ba)
General diagnostic methods (ngos ‘dzin rtags)
- Pulse reading (rtsa la brtag pa)
- Urine analysis (chu la brtag pa)
- Tongue diagnosis (lce la brtag pa)
- Ear veins reading (mig pra brtag pa)
- Eye veins reading (mig rtsa brtag pa)
- Constitution examination (nyespa’i rang bzhin brtag pa)
Preventive methods (nad sngon ‘gog gi thabs lam)
- Three natural ways of life and related advice
- Seasonal behavior and advice
- General knowledge on nutrition
- Dietetics: cooking and the use of spices
- Constitution and wholesome and unwholesome diet
- General food items (from the East and West)
External therapy (dpyad kyi bcos thabs)
Theory - the practice is taught during the workshops (TMcourse A)
- Tibetan moxibustion (me rtsa’)
- Hor-me therapy (hor-me)
- Tibetan kun ye massage (bsku mnye)
- Oil therapy (snum ‘chos)
- Hot cupping therapy (me bum)
- General fomentation (dugs)
- Warm salt fomentation (tsha dugs)
- Warm pebbles fomentation (bshag ma’i dugs)
- Warm earthen pot fomentation (rdza sros dugs)
- Warm stone cold and warm fomentations (rdo dugs tsha grang gnyis)
- Tibetan body/mind cleansing
- Medicine Buddha meditation, visualization and mantra healing
Materia Medica (sman rdzas kyi rig pa)
- Materia Medica
- Traditional Tibetan herbal medicine products
- Tibetan herbal products manufactured in the West
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3rd year: GENERAL AND SPECIFIC PATHOLOGIES
General and specific pathologies (nad spyi bye brag)
Humors disorders (nyes pa’i nad rigs)
- Wind disorder (rlung gi nad)
• Pre-wind disorder
• General Wind disorder, pathogenesis, pathology, classification of the Wind disorders, diagnosis and therapies.
o Nine specific and combined Wind disorders
o Five sub-Wind disorders
o Two combined Wind disorders
o Two important common wind disorders
- Bile disorder (mkhris pa’i nad)
• Pre-Bile disorder
• General Bile disorder, pathogenesis, pathology, classification of the Bile disorders, diagnosis and therapies.
o Five specific Bile diseases
o Five sub-Bile disorders
o Two combined Bile disorders
- Phlegm disorder (Badken gyi nad)
• Pre-Phlegm disorder
• General Phlegm disorder, pathogenesis, pathology, classification of the Phlegm disorders, diagnosis and therapies.
o Five specific Phlegm disorders
o Five sub-Bile disorders
o Two combined Bile disorders
- Synthesis of three humors treatment
Five vital organs disorders (don lna’i nad)
- Heart disorder: physiology, pathology, diagnosis and therapies.
- Four specific heart disorders
- Lungs disorder: physiology, pathology, diagnosis and therapies.
- Four specific lungs disorders
- Liver disorder: physiology, pathology, diagnosis and therapies.
- Three specific liver disorders
- Spleen disorder: physiology, pathology, diagnosis and therapies.
- Four specific spleen disorders
- Kidney disorder: physiology, pathology, diagnosis and therapies.
- Five specific kidney disorders
Six hollow organs disorders (snod drug gi nad)
- Stomach disorder: physiology, pathology, diagnosis and therapies
- Five specific stomach disorders
- Small intestine disorder: physiology, pathology, diagnosis and therapies.
- Three specific small intestine disorders
- Large intestine disorder: physiology, pathology, diagnosis and therapies.
- Six specific large intestine disorders
- Gall bladder disorder: physiology, pathology, diagnosis and therapies.
- Three specific gallbladder disorders
- Bladder disorder: physiology, pathology, diagnosis and therapies.
- Three specific bladder disorders
- Reproductive organs disorder: physiology, pathology, diagnosis and therapies.
- Women's disorders
- Men's disorders