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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