Healing from the Source The Science and Lore

Dr. Yeshi Donden, the long-time personal physician of HH the Dali Lama, draws from over fifty years of practicing and teaching this ancient tradition of healing.

Dr. Yeshe Dhonden was trained by the Venerable Dr. Khyenrab Norbu (1883–1962), personal physician to Holinesses the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Dalai Lamas and founder of the Men-Tsee-Khang and Tibetan Medical and Astrology Institute in Tibet. He has conducted research at the University of Virginia and has conducted clinical trials at the University of California San Francisco.

Author's Acknowledgments

9

(2)

Translator's Preface

11

(2)

Introduction: A Brief History of Tibetan Medicine

13

(3)

Questions and Responses

16

(3)

Part I: The Body in a State of Balance

19

(46)

The Constituents of the Body in Good Health

21

(8)

The Digestive Process

29

(16)

Questions and Responses

34

(3)

The Transformations of the Nutriment

37

(2)

Questions and Responses

39

(4)

The Transformations of the Residue

43

(2)

The Humors

45

(20)

The Classification of the Humors

45

(2)

Questions and Responses

47

(2)

The Formation of the Bodily Constituents in the Womb

49

(2)

The General Locations and Functions of the Humors

51

(1)

Questions and Responses

52

(3)

The Specific Functions and Locations of the Humors

55

(3)

Questions and Responses

58

(2)

The Humoral Constitutions

60

(5)

Part II: The Body in a State of Imbalance

65

(42)

An Overview

67

(3)

The Distant Causes of Illness

70

(2)

The Accumulation, Arousal, and Pacification of Humoral Disorders

72

(5)

The Causes

72

(2)

The Essential Natures

74

(1)

The Seasons

74

(3)

Conditions Contributing to Illness

77

(6)

Common Contributing Conditions of Illness

77

(4)

Specific Contributing Conditions

81

(2)

The Manners of Entrance of Illnesses

83

(2)

The Characteristics of Humoral Imbalances

85

(9)

Symptoms of Excess

86

(2)

Symptoms of Deficiency

88

(2)

Symptoms of Disturbance

90

(4)

Classifications of Diseases

94

(13)

The Classification of Diseases on the Basis of Their Causes

94

(2)

The Classification of Diseases on the Basis of Body Types

96

(1)

Diseases Common to Everyone

97

(10)

Part III: Healing from the Source

107

(86)

On Being a Tibetan Physician

109

(18)

The Causes of Becoming a Physician

109

(7)

The Nature of a Physician

116

(1)

The Designation of a Physician

116

(1)

Categories of Physicians

116

(5)

The Activities of a Physician

121

(5)

The Results of Being a Physician

126

(1)

A Tibetan Medical View of AIDS

127

(10)

A Tibetan Medical View of Cancer

137

(7)

Benign and Malignant Tumors

144

(15)

Questions and Responses

155

(4)

Wholesome Behavior

159

(19)

Lifetime Behavior

159

(8)

Mundane Conduct

159

(6)

Spiritual Conduct

165

(2)

Seasonal Behavior

167

(2)

Occasional Behavior

169

(6)

Questions and Responses

175

(3)

The Potencies of Tastes

178

(6)

Wholesome Diet

184

(9)

Questions and Responses

186

(7)

English-Tibetan-Sanskrit Medical Glossary

193

(6)

Tibetan-English-Sanskrit Medical Glossary

199

(6)

Glossary of Names

205

(2)

Glossary of Texts

207

(2)

Bibliography

209

(2)

Index

211

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Healing from the Source The Science and Lore of Tibetan Medicine

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