What is Tibetan Medicine?
The basic text of Tibetan Medicine is called the "Four Tantras" and was taught by Buddha himself. All Tibetan physicians study it. Tantra means "lineage". It is composed of four books:… This introduction to Tibetan Medicine follows the medical thangka (painting) of the medicine tree (see… In Tibet many times people who were considered incurable after these practices were healed. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to escape the consequences of particularly heavy karma. Sometimes, no cure exists. Types As we have seen, in Tibetan Medicine there are three humours. When we are born, for karmic reasons, hereditaries and so on, we can have a constitution more connected to one humour than to the others. Very rarely we have pure types or a balanced combination of the three humours. More frequently we have the combination of two humours (one of the two stronger). So we can have wind-bile types or bile-phlegm types and so on. How to recognize the types: