Tibetan Medicine Three year Course syllabus
(Distant learning)

BASIC LEVEL: BASICS OF TIBETAN MEDICINE

Introduction

History

• A short history of Tibetan Medicine
• Buddhism and medicine
• Golden sutra, Buddha’s teaching on medicine
• Medicine Buddha sutra and eight medicines Buddhas
• Tanatug 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

• Nyepas, the three humors
• The seven body constitutions
• The digestion
• The physical body constituents
• The waste products
• The concept of health

Anatomy and subtle physiology

• The body and its development
• Tibetan Embryology
• Similes of the body
• The vital and hollow organs
• The food passages and orifices
• The channels
• Chakras
• Prognosis of death, dying and dreams

The Medicine trees
Theory and practice guide

• Healthy and unhealthy trees
• The diagnostic tree
• The treatment tree
• Concept of the ideal health

Ethical code of conduct for Tibetan Physicians

• A short introduction on the development of the ethical code of conduct for Tibetan Physicians

 

 

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INTERMEDIATE LEVEL: ETIOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS AND METHOD OF TREATMENT
Prerequisite: basic level exams passed

Syllabus
Etiology

• General etiology
• The Buddhist concept on disease
• Tibetan Medicine concept on disease
• General cause of the disease
• Immediate cause of the disease
  
  • Irregular climate and seasons
  • Unhealthy diet
  • Unwholesome behavior
  • Unhealthy thoughts

• Development of disorders
  
  • 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
  • General classification of the diseases

General diagnostic methods: theory and practice

• Pulse reading
• Urine analysis
• Tongue diagnosis
• Ear veins reading
• Eye veins reading
• Constitution examination

Preventive methods

• 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

• Tibetan moxibustion
• Hor-me therapy
• Tibetan massage
• Oil therapy
• Cupping therapy
• Fomentation
• Tibetan body/mind cleansing
• Jamtsi therapy (mild suppository)
• Medicine Buddha meditation, visualization and mantra healing

Materia Medica

• Materia Medica
• Traditional Tibetan Phytotherapy products
• Tibetan herbal products manufactured in the West

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ADVANCED LEVEL: GENERAL AND SPECIFIC PATHOLOGIES
Prerequisite: basic and intermediate levels exams passed

Syllabus
General and specific pathologies

Humors disorders

• Wind disorder, pathogenesis, pathology, classification of Wind disorders, diagnosis and therapies.
  • Ten specific and combined wind disorders
• Khrag-rlung-stod’tshang: high blood pressure: pathology, classification of  Wind disorders, diagnosis and therapies.
  • Two types of Khrag-rlung-stod’tshang disorders
• Bile disorder, pathogenesis, pathology, classification of Bile disorders, diagnosis and therapies.
  • Five specific bile diseases
• Phlegm disorders, pathogenesis, pathology, classification of Phlegm disorders, diagnosis and therapies.
  • Three specific phlegm disorders
• Brown Phlegm, chronic digestive disorder: pathogenesis, pathology, Classification of Phlegm disorders, diagnosis and therapies.

Five vital organs disorders

• Heart: physiology, pathology, diagnosis and therapies.
  • Three specific heart disorders
• Lungs: physiology, pathology, diagnosis and therapies.
  • Three specific lungs disorders
• Liver: physiology, pathology, diagnosis and therapies.
  • Two specific liver disorders
• Spleen: physiology, pathology, diagnosis and therapies.
  • Two specific spleen disorders
• Kidney: physiology, pathology, diagnosis and therapies.
  • Three specific kidney disorders

Six hollow organs disorders

• Stomach: physiology, pathology, diagnosis and therapies
  • Three specific stomach disorders
• Small intestine: physiology, pathology, diagnosis and therapies.
  • Three specific small intestine disorders
• Large intestine: physiology, pathology, diagnosis and therapies.
  • Three specific large intestine disorders
• Gall bladder: physiology, pathology, diagnosis and therapies.
• Bladder: physiology, pathology, diagnosis and therapies.
  • Two specific bladder disorders
• Reproductive organs: physiology, pathology, diagnosis and therapies.

Some common complaints

• Headaches: pathology, diagnosis and therapies
  • Three types of headache
• Constipation: diagnosis and therapies.
  • Two types of constipations
• Rheumatism and arthritis: pathogenesis, pathology, classification, diagnosis and therapies.
  • Six types of Rheumatisms
• Gout pathogenesis, pathology, classification, diagnosis and therapies.
• Fever and infections: pathogenesis, pathology, classification, diagnosis and therapies.
  • Five important fever diseases
• Yama and allergy, pathogenesis, pathology, diagnosis and therapies.

 

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