Marilyn MagazinAncient Wisdom for Westerners
A Short Introduction to Tibetan Medicine
Dr Marilyn Magazin has worked in scientific and medical research for forty years. She has a Chemistry degree from the University of Kentucky and a doctoral degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Geneva. Thirty years ago she encountered Tibetan medicine which she then studied with Jacques Haesaert, a French naturopath and Tibetan medical doctor. She then went on to co-editing and translating his teachings from French to English, as well as translating more than 150 consultations. Dr Magazin then studied for three more years with Dr Lobsang Shrestha.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .............................................. xiii
PREFACE ..................................................................
xv
INTRODUCTION ........................................................xvii
Chapter 1
What is Tibetan medicine?.......................................... 1
Chapter 2
Explanation of Buddhist concepts .................................. 9
Chapter 3
Anatomy, physiology, and psychology................................17
Chapter 4
Conception, formation of the body, and childbirth..................41
Chapter 5
What is health? ...................................................49
Chapter 6
Behavior and nutrition ............................................51
Chapter 7
What is disease, disorder?.........................................81
Chapter 8
Classes of diseases ...............................................83
Chapter 9
Invisible powers and spirits ......................................85
Chapter 10
Symptoms and diagnosis.............................................89
Chapter 11
What is healing? ..................................................99
Chapter 12
Therapy.......................................................... 101
Chapter 13
Western dogmas absent from Tibetan medicine...................... 117
Chapter 14
The Tibetan medicine approach to several common diseases ...... 119
Chapter 15
Signs, omens, and dreams......................................... 129
Chapter 16
Astrology ....................................................... 131
CONCLUDING REMARKS.......................................................
133
APPENDIX.................................................................
135
REFERENCES ..............................................................
143
SUGGESTED READING .......................................................
145
INDEX....................................................................
147
