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Titel:: Curare

Untertitel:: Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie : journal of medical anthropology

Weitere Titel:: Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie; Journal of medical anthropology; journal of medical anthropology and transcultural psychiatry

ISSN:: 0344-8622

Herausgebendes Organ:: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin

Erscheinungsort:: Berlin

Verlag:: VWB, Verl. für Wiss. und Bildung

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1978

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Titel:: Curare, 37.2014

Untertitel:: Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie : Journal of medical anthropology

Weitere Titel:: Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie; Journal of medical anthropology; journal of medical anthropology and transcultural psychiatry

Erscheinungsort:: Berlin

Verlag:: VWB, Verl. für Wiss. und Bildung

Erscheinungsjahr:: 2014

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Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Vol. 37 (2014) 2: Medizinethnologische Perspektiven und Public Health = Perspectives of Medical Anthropology on Public Health

Sonstige Person:: Schröder, Ekkehard

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Tibetan Materia Medica in Dispute. Pharmacological Achievements of Dar-mo sman-rams-pa Blo-bzang Chos-grags

Sonstige Person:: Sabernig, Katharina Anna

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

108 The stems wind up like an umbrella, have round, small leaves and a very beautiful white flower, the fruits have the form of a gourd and the interior is replete with seeds (se vbru zhes bya drod kyi shing, sdong po gdugs kyi tshul du vkhyil/lo ma sgor mo chung ba ste/ me tog dkar po rab tu mdzes/vbras bu ku bavi dbyibs dang vdra/ nang ni vbras bus rat iu gang [BLO-BZANG CHOS-GRAGS 2007: 90/20-23]). With the exception of the description of the fruit the same wording is used in the Yaidürya sngon po and Shel gong shel phreng (SANGS-RGYAS RGYA-MTSHC 2005: 423/6—424/3, BSTAN VDZIN PHUN TSHOGS 1994: 212/5—22). In the Shel gong shel phreng the fruit is described similarly but the red colour of the fruits is added. Another aspect is BLO-BZANG CHOS-GRAGS amendment on the “efficacy:” hot, sharp, rough, moveable, dry and light (nus pa tsha rno rtsub g.yo snum skam yang ba dang Idan pa, 2007: 122/35), cannot be found in the VYaidürya sngon po, but has been incorporated in exact sequence into the She/ phreng as well in VJAMm-DPAL RDO-RJE’S materia medica (1971: 95). In the last-mentioned treatise the text accom- panying the illustration of pomegranate (se vbru;) refers to the Mes povi zhal lung, but also incorpo- rates phrases of BLO-BZANG CHOS-GRAGS’ text, the Vaidürya sngon po and the Shel gong shel phreng are not mentioned. The text is generally reduced in comparison to its sources but its carved illustra: tions show details of the branches, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds of the respective substances (yet the second part of the publication shows a blockprint without any text (cf. VJaMm-DPAL RDo-RJE 1971: 95. second part: page 6). Let’s have a look on the two psychoactive drugs thorn-apple (thang phrom) and henbane (lang thang fse) used in Tibetan medicine as a vermicide. The Rgyud bzhi only mentions their anthelminthic prop- erty (hang phrom lang thang tse yis srin nad sel G.YU THOG Yon TAN MGoNn Po 1992: 71/14). In the Mes povi zhal lung (BLo-Gros RGyYAL-Po 2005. 716/12-14) we do not find many more details but we learn that different species exist. BLO-BZANG CHos-GRAGs (2007: 141/24-142/21) describes the two substances sepärately, divides them into further species, gives again a detailed pharmacognostic de- scription and we learn that the Tibetan name fhang phrom has a synonym: D/h]a tu ra. The name is de- rived from Sanskrit: dhattüra which is also behind the scientific name of thorn-apple: Datura stramo- KATHARINA ANNA SABERNIG nium L. The plant became known in Europe via the Portuguese in the sixteenth century and contains alkaloids (hyoscyamin, atropin, Scopolamin), which are known for their antispasmodic, analgesic and psychoactive effect (maybe it was the antispasmod- ic effect of thorn-apple which made Tibetan physi- cians use it against worms causing cramps in the intestines). With the exception of SUM-PA MKHAN-PO YE-SHES-DPAL-VBYOR’S text, the name D[hla tu ra has been adopted by all following Tibetan phar- macopoeia I examined (SANGS-RGYAS RGYA-MTSHO 2005: 465/2-466/1, BSTAN VDZIN PHUN TSHOGS 1994: 268/7-269/2, V1AM-DPAL RDO-RIE 1971: 137 second part: page 9]). BLO-BZANG CHOS-GRAGS’ hint that the fruit is somehow similar to another substance of mythological (and psycho-active) meaning, so ma ra dza, most frequently translated as Cannabis sati- va L. or some other similar plant, can only be found in the VYaidürya sngon po and ViAM-DPAL RDoO-RIE’s materia medica. The situation is different in the case of lang thang rtse. Some of BLO-BZANG CHos- GRAGS’ remarks on henbane can be found in parts in the Vaidürya sngon po but not in the later pharma- copeia where it is described in detail but differently. In explaining the “literal sense” (tshig don), Bıo- BZANG CHOS-GRAGS lists the taste, “qualities” and ef- fects of the substance. In the case of thorn-apple the taste is sharp, the “qualities” are rough, dry, mov- able, hot as well as “oily” and the effect is to cure infestations of worms (fhang phrom ro tsha zhing nus pa rtsub skam g.yo tsha snum pa dang Idan pas srin gyi nad sel ba, 2007: 175/2-3). The taste of henbane is astringent and sharp, the “qualities” are oily, warm, dull, rough and the effect is to cure infestations of worms (lang thang rtse ro bska tsha dang Idan zhing nus pa snum dro rtul rtsub dang Idan pas srin gyi nad sel ba, 2007: 175/45). Sur- prisingly this contribution cannot be found in any of the other pharmacological treatises surveyed here. The Effect of Medicines of the Twentieth Chapter of the Bshad rgyud is not the only text where BLO- BZANG CHOS-GRAGS elaborates on tastes and “quali- ties”, In fact in this work he omits the introductory and more theoretical explanation of the chapter. Concerning this passage in his text on Unfolded Trees of the Explanatory Tantra he goes far beyond the respective chapter of the Explantory Tantra. (BLO BZANG CHOS GRAGS 2005: 84/ 1285/20). The seventeen pharmaceutical qualities are related to the twenty essential characteristics of the three nves VWB -— Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildune

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