1. The Central Council of Tibetan Medicine (CCTM) The Central ...

4) Tibetan medicine as an adjunct treatment for Tuberculosis patient: To
document and evaluate the efficacy of Tibetan medicine in reducing the hepatotoxicity
in tuberculosis patient.
4. b. MATERIA MEDICA
Tibetan Medicine with its exhaustive knowledge of pharmacopoeia & materia
medica has many authentic resource book enlisting its rich collection & data
information on the use of various medicinal plants & seven other different
categories of medicinal substances. The most authoritative & widely referred
resource book namely Shel-gong-Shel-treng was written by Deumar Geshe
Tenzin Phuntsok (1672-?) in the year 1727.
This is popularly known as one of the most comprehensive work on the principle
of Tibetan Materia Medica. It describes the classification, nomenclature, quality,
potency, use & therapeutic action of well over 2294 different medicinal
substances in 13 different sections. The book contains two volumes called Drimed
Shelgong which was written in the form of slokas or root form while the 2nd
volume namely Dri-med shel-treng was written as a commentary of the former.
The thirteen different sections of medicinal sources are as follows:
1. Gem medicine
2. Stone medicine
3. Mineral earth
4. Resinous extract
5. Tree derivatives
6. Shrubs
7. Green herbs
8. Mineral Salts
9. Animal extracts
10. Field crops
11. Water source
12. Heat source
13. Compounded medicine
List of some commonly used and Indigenous plants of Tibet are:
S.No. Tibetan name Botanical name Common name
1 ;ôm-q-Gz-BïÅü
Saussurea likiangensis
2 C-z¸P.ü Corydalis impatiens Early fumitory
3 ˆÛ-¿Uï-h;¼-qôü
Gentian robusta
4 >Àâ-zhÝh-lô-Xïü
Codonopsis thalictrifolia