A Tibetan Herbal Formula Understood from a Phytotherapeutical Perspective of tcm

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 353-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Ploberger
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Tibetan Medicine ◽  
Cool Temperature ◽  
Herbal Formula ◽  
Medical Systems ◽  
Body Images ◽  
Materia Medica ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Traditional Tibetan Medicine ◽  
Padma 28

In this article I aim to describe the Tibetan formula Padma 28 from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine (tcm) phytotherapy as practised in Europe. As a biomedical physician and tcm practitioner, familiar also with traditional Tibetan medicine (ttm), I would like to underline that these two Asian medical systems are on one hand fundamentally different based on culturally distinct concepts and practices of health and illness, including different body images. On the other hand, they can be, and in fact are, correlated with each other in practice via their shared specific materia medica. This article represents a first attempt at establishing an understanding via translation, by relating distinct ttm and tcm efficacies as well as my own personal tasting of the single ingredients of the Tibetan formula Padma 28. tcm terminology translated into English is relatively well established and may provide a lingua franca, other than predominant biomedicine, for communication about Tibetan and Chinese prescriptions, and about individual plants. From a tcm perspective, Padma 28 has an overall neutral or slightly cool temperature effect and an acrid, bitter, and slightly aromatic taste. This formula can be used to promote the movement of qi and blood in a mild way without injuring the yin. Furthermore, it strengthens the spleen qi and spleen yang. Responding to the regulatory context in Europe, certain ingredients in this Tibetan formula have been left out and substituted by others—a practice that is regarded as common in tcm formulations.

Tibetan Medicine and Biomedicine: Epistemological Conflicts, Practical Solutions

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey B. Samuel
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Medicine ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Medical Systems ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Medicinal Substances ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
Traditional Tibetan Medicine ◽  
The One ◽  
Medical Traditions ◽  
Soul Loss

The western adaptation of non-western medical systems and traditions is a complex process that takes place at a variety of different levels. In many practical medical contexts, epistemological issues receive little attention. Both patients and practitioners may switch frameworks relatively freely, without much concern about underlying theoretical assumptions. Epistemological issues may be more central elsewhere, for example in regard to the licensing and approval of practitioners and medicinal substances, or in terms of the rethinking of western models of knowledge to include new insights from these non-western sources. I suggest in this paper that the major learned medical traditions of Asia, such as āyurveda and traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Tibetan medicine, for all their differences from biomedicine and among each other, are in some respects relatively compatible with western biomedical understandings. They can be read in physiological terms, as referring to a vocabulary of bodily processes that underlie health and disease. Such approaches, however, marginalise or exclude elements that disrupt this compatibility (e.g. references to divinatory procedures, spirit attack or flows of subtle 'energies'). Other non-western healing practices, such as those in which spirit attack, 'soul loss' or 'shamanic' procedures are more central, are less easily assimilated to biomedical models, and may simply be dismissed as incompatible with modern scientific understandings. Rather than assenting to physiological reduction in the one case, and dismissal as pre-scientific in the other, we should look for a wider context of understanding within which both kinds of approach can be seen as part of a coherent view of human beings and human existence.

scholarly journals Critical Review of Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine

Pathways ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Gowan
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Tibetan Medicine ◽  
Medical Systems ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Social ◽  
Good Manufacturing Practices ◽  
Traditional Tibetan Medicine ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Sowa Rigpa

This article offers a critical review of Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine. The ethnography provides rich and comprehensive insights regarding the triumphs and tribulations of Sowa Rigpa (traditional Tibetan medicine) as the medical system is translated across diverse contexts to ensure its continuity within the globalized world; however, these insights can be broadened by more deliberately acknowledging and investigating the (post)colonial subtexts underlying these translations. Incommensurability emerges throughout the ethnography in the form of tensions that arise as tacit knowledge is translated to explicit knowledge in the quest for legitimization. It is argued that expounding the nature of this incommensurability by engaging with rather than rejecting polarized notions of “traditional” and “modern” paradigms can reveal that non-biomedical medical systems and medically pluralistic contexts more broadly are inundated by (post)colonial processes. Borrowing Blaser’s (2013) notion of “Sameing,” it is demonstrated that translation involves (post)colonial processes of assimilation, as Sowa Rigpa is rendered visible through Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and appropriation, as it is made palatable through pharmaceutical commodification. Furthermore, it is argued that these processes mobilize  mimesis and essentialization to transform Sowa Rigpa into a system that is both legitimized and acquiescent to the imperatives of varying external regimes. The simultaneity of these effects and the position that they are not mutually exclusive is asserted throughout the review as further evidence of (post)colonization.

Tibetan Medical Schools of The Aga Area (Chita Region)

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 334-346
Author(s):  
Natalia Bolsokhoyeva
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Folk Medicine ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tibetan Medicine ◽  
Transbaikal Region ◽  
Medical Culture ◽  
Medical Systems

Buryat medicine, which derived from Tibeto-Mongolian medical systems and traditions, has thrived in the Transbaikal region from the eighteenth century. There are, however, two main streams in Buryat healing traditions: one deriving from Buryat folk medicine and the other, the main focus of this article, scholarly Tibetan medicine, as transmitted through Mongolian medical culture. As it was adopted in Buryatia, Tibeto-Mongolian medicine went through a process of adaptation to the local environment, most conspicuously in the field of pharmacology. It is here that we find the main original Buryat contributions to the wider development of Tibeto Mongolian medical culture.

scholarly journals The Effect of Anti-Inflammatory and Antimicrobial Herbal Remedy PADMA 28 on Immunological Angiogenesis and Granulocytes Activity in Mice

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota M. Radomska-Leśniewska ◽  
Piotr Skopiński ◽  
Marcin Niemcewicz ◽  
Robert Zdanowski ◽  
Sławomir Lewicki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Activity ◽  
Herbal Remedy ◽  
Ex Vivo ◽  
Tibetan Medicine ◽  
F1 Hybrids ◽  
Daily Dose ◽  
Anti Inflammatory ◽  
Traditional Tibetan Medicine ◽  
Granulocyte Function ◽  
Padma 28

PADMA 28 is a herbal multicompound remedy that originates from traditional Tibetan medicine and possesses anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antimicrobial, angioprotecting, and wound healing properties. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the influence of this remedy on immunological angiogenesis and granulocytes metabolic activity in Balb/c mice. Mice were fed daily, for seven days, with 5.8 mg of PADMA (calculated from recommended human daily dose) or 0.085 mg (dose in the range of active doses of other herbal extracts studied by us previously).Results. Highly significant increase of newly formed blood vessels number inex vivocutaneous lymphocyte-induced angiogenesis test (LIA) after grafting of Balb/c splenocytes from both dosage groups to F1 hybrids (Balb/c × C3H); increase of blood lymphocytes and granulocytes number only in mice fed with lower dose of remedy; and significant suppression of metabolic activity (chemiluminescence test) of blood granulocytes in mice fed with higher dose of PADMA.Conclusion. PADMA 28 behaves as a good stimulator of physiological angiogenesis, but for this purpose it should be used in substantially lower doses than recommended by producers for avoiding the deterioration of granulocyte function.

scholarly journals Tibetan Medicine for Diabetes Mellitus: Overview of Pharmacological Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li-Shan Yan ◽  
Brian Chi-Yan Cheng ◽  
Shuo-Feng Zhang ◽  
Gan Luo ◽  
Chao Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Tibetan Medicine ◽  
Lipid Lowering ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Materia Medica ◽  
Insulin Resistant ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Traditional Tibetan Medicine ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
Oxidative Effects

Diabetes mellitus (DM) and its complications pose a major public health threat which is approaching epidemic proportions globally. Current drug options may not provide good efficacy and even cause serious adverse effects. Seeking safe and effective agents for DM treatment has been an area of intensive interest. As a healing system originating in Tibet, Traditional Tibetan Medicine (TTM) has been widely used by Tibetan people for the prevention and treatment of DM and its complications for hundreds of years. Tibetan Materia Medica (TMM) including the flower of Edgeworthia gardneri (Wall.) Meisn., Phyllanthi Fructus, Chebulae Fructus, Huidouba, and Berberidis Cortex are most frequently used and studied. These TMMs possess hypoglycemic, anti-insulin resistant, anti-glycation, lipid lowering, anti-inflammatory, and anti-oxidative effects. The underlying mechanisms of these actions may be related to their α-glucosidase inhibitory, insulin signaling promoting, PPARs-activating, gut microbiota modulation, islet β cell-preserving, and TNF-α signaling suppressive properties. This review presents a comprehensive overview of the mode and mechanisms of action of various active constituents, extracts, preparations, and formulas from TMM. The dynamic beneficial effects of the products prepared from TMM for the management of DM and its complications are summarized. These TMMs are valuable materia medica which have the potential to be developed as safe and effective anti-DM agents.

Effects of the Tibetan herbal preparation PADMA 28 on blood lipids and lipid oxidisability in subjects with mild hypercholesterolaemia

VASA ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brunner-La Rocca ◽  
Schindler ◽  
Schlumpf ◽  
Saller ◽  
Suter
Keyword(s):  
Endothelial Dysfunction ◽  
Blood Lipids ◽  
Ex Vivo ◽  
Hdl Cholesterol ◽  
Blood Lipid ◽  
Tibetan Medicine ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
Intraarterial Infusion ◽  
Padma 28

Background: Previous studies showed an anti-atherosclerotic effect of PADMA 28, an herbal formula based on Tibetan medicine. As the mechanisms of action are not fully understood, we investigated whether PADMA 28 may lower blood lipids and lipid oxidisability, and affect early endothelial dysfunction. Patients and methods: Sixty otherwise healthy subjects with total cholesterol ≥5.2 mmol/l and < 8.0 mmol/l were randomly assigned to placebo or PADMA 28, 3 x 2 capsules daily, for 4 weeks (double-blind). Blood lipids (total, LDL-, and HDL-cholesterol, triglycerides, Apo-lipoprotein A1 and B) and ex vivo lipid oxidisability were measured before and after treatment. In a subset of 24 subjects, endothelial function was assessed using venous occlusion plethysmography with intraarterial infusion of acetylcholine. Isolated LDL and plasma both untreated and pre-treated with PADMA 28 extract were oxidised by the radical generator AAPH. Conjugated diene formation was measured at 245 nm. Results: Blood lipids did not change during the study in both groups. In contrast to previous reports in mild hypercholesterolaemia, no endothelial dysfunction was seen and, consequently, was not influenced by therapy. Ex vivo blood lipid oxidisability was significantly reduced with PADMA 28 (area under curve: 5.29 ± 1.62 to 4.99 ± 1.46, p = 0.01), and remained unchanged in the placebo group (5.33 ± 1.88 to 5.18 ± 1.78, p > 0.1). This effect persisted one week after cessation of medication. In vitro experiments confirmed the prevention of lipid peroxidation in the presence of PADMA 28 extracts. Persistent protection was also seen for LDL isolated from PADMA 28-pretreated blood after being subjected to rigorous purification. Conclusions: This study suggests that the inhibition of blood lipid oxidisability by PADMA 28 may play a role in its anti-atherosclerotic effect.

scholarly journals Health and Illness as Enacted Phenomena

Topoi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredrik Svenaeus
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Existential Feelings ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Chronic Anxiety ◽  
Phenomenological View ◽  
Life Projects

AbstractIn this paper I explore health and illness through the lens of enactivism, which is understood and developed as a bodily-based worldly-engaged phenomenology. Various health theories – biomedical, ability-based, biopsychosocial – are introduced and scrutinized from the point of view of enactivism and phenomenology. Health is ultimately argued to consist in a central world-disclosing aspect of what is called existential feelings, experienced by way of transparency and ease in carrying out important life projects. Health, in such a phenomenologically enacted understanding, is an important and in many cases necessary part of leading a good life. Illness, on the other hand, by such a phenomenological view, consist in finding oneself at mercy of unhomelike existential feelings, such as bodily pains, nausea, extreme unmotivated tiredness, depression, chronic anxiety and delusion, which make it harder and, in some cases, impossible to flourish. In illness suffering the lived body hurts, resists, or, in other ways, alienates the activities of the ill person.

Polyvinyl Alcohol/Chitosan Composite Hydrogels with Sustained Release of Traditional Tibetan Medicine for Promoting Chronic Diabetic Wound Healing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingyu Chen ◽  
Zuxin Wang ◽  
Shan Gao ◽  
Wanlin Zhang ◽  
Hanwen Gong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wound Healing ◽  
Polyvinyl Alcohol ◽  
Sustained Release ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Tibetan Medicine ◽  
Diabetic Wound ◽  
Composite Hydrogels ◽  
Diabetic Wound Healing ◽  
Traditional Tibetan Medicine ◽  
Chitosan Composite

The Tibetan eighteen flavor dangshen pills (TEP) are composed of 18 traditional Tibetan medicines, which are commonly used in the treatment of skin diseases in the Tibetan medicine system. They...

Authenticating and distinguishing the eight species of traditional Tibetan medicine “Meiduoluomi” by microscopic technique

2009 ◽  
Vol 72 (10) ◽  
pp. 727-736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing An ◽  
Jie Li ◽  
Jiang-Gang Wang ◽  
Zhi-Feng Zhang ◽  
Chu Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Medicine ◽  
Microscopic Technique ◽  
Traditional Tibetan Medicine

MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE BICHURA DISTRICT AND THEIR USE IN TIBETAN MEDICINE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Владимир Александрович Бабиков ◽  
Кристина Алексеевна Тимофеева
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Tibetan Medicine ◽  
Pharmacological Properties ◽  
Traditional Tibetan Medicine

В представленной статье рассматриваются особенности экологии лекарственных растений, произрастающих на территории Бичурского района Бурятии, и их применение в традиционной тибетской медицине. На основе собранных сведений назрела необходимость подробного изучения фармакологических свойств изучаемых растений, с учетом мер по охране и сохранению их в флоре Бичурского района. The article deals with the peculiarities of the ecology of medicinal plants growing on the territory of the Bichursky district of Buryatia, and their application in traditional Tibetan medicine. Based on the collected information, there is a need for a detailed study of the pharmacological properties of the studied plants, taking into account measures for the protection and preservation of them in the flora of the Bichursky district.

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