Bhagwan Dash, an Indian expert who has engaged in clinical Tibetan medicine for more than two decades, delivered a report at the 2000 International Symposium on Tibetan Medicine held Sunday.
　　He briefed the symposium participants on the principles, diagnosis method and historical development of Tibetan medicine. "
　　Tibetan medicine regards the human body as an integral part of the body, spirit and soul. It pays attention not only to treatment of disease but also to psychological recuperation," he said.
　　Similar to the traditional Chinese, Mongolian and Indian medicines, Tibetan medicine values natural drugs and therapy, which have few side effects, he added.
　　Dash has been engaging in medical research in New Delhi and is an advisor to the World Health Organization in Southeast Asia. He shuttles between New Delhi and Italy to attend to his five Tibetan and Indian medicine clinics in the two countries.
　　Tibetan medicine is specially effective for arthritis, cardiovascular diseases and cancer, he said. "A lupus sebaceus patient of mine received Western medicine treatment for two years, but to no avail. But since he turned to Tibetan medicine not long ago, he has felt much better," he said.
　　The 64-year-old physician has written 14 books on Tibetan medicine. The majority of them have been published in New Delhi. " I hope Tibetan medicine becomes better known not only in India but also in other parts of the world," he said.
　　Participants at the current symposium on Tibetan medicine include over 20 foreign medical experts like Dash from the United States, Germany, France, Japan, Russia and four other countries.
　　Eliot Tokar, an American physician, has opened a Tibetan medicine clinic in New York. "I am glad to have a chance to compare notes with experts from other countries on Tibetan medicine," he said. "I think Tibetan medicine should be combined with Western medicine. It should find its rightful place in modern medicine, while maintaining its unique theory and way of treatment, " he added.

(From People's Daily)