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Tibetan Medicine Schools and Careers Guide

What is Tibetan medicine?
Tibetan medicine defines three main physiological systems, which control all the body's processes:

A disturbance in one or a combination of these three principle systems results in illness. The disturbance can come from diet, behavior or environmental factors. The manner in which these factors can result in illness will depend on the acute or chronic nature of the problem in an individual patient.

How is Tibetan medicine practiced?
The diagnostic techniques include visual observation, touch and interrogation.

Visual observation: primarily the practitioner studies the condition of the patient's tongue and urine. Secondarily the practitioner checks the patient's complexion, the color and texture of his/her blood, nails, sputum, feces and other general conditions.

Touch: after determining preconditions, the practitioner takes the patient's pulse by placing the three middle fingers at the patient's radial arteries.

Interrogation: there are three main elements to a medical interrogation: determining the causative factors; determining the site of the illness; and asking the patient about the sort of food and drink s/he has been consuming, and what kind of physical and mental behavior she/he has been experiencing.

Treatment can involve one or more option from 4 general categories:

What Tibetan medicine degrees or certification are available?
While a full and comprehensive study of Tibetan medicine can take up to 7 years, short courses are also available.

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