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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

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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

Tibetan Materia Medica in Dispute pa followed by an explanation on how to overcome these characteristics with the help of the qualities (the three nyes pa form the major concept on pathol- ogy in Tibetan medicine. The term nyes pa is com monly translated in medical literature as a Tibetan form of humoral pathology but it should be noted that this translation is under discussion, as well as the translation of the humours themselves: rlung— wind, mkhris pa—bile, and bad kan—phlegm). His writing appears as a refined version of the Mes povi zhal lung including quotations from an older but unnamed commentary (/vi kva) which had already been cited in the Mes povi zhal lung (see: BLO-GROS RGYAL-Po 2005: 686/20-22, 687/1—3, 4-6). In the Vaidürya sngon po the quotations cannot be found any more and the phrasing is similar to BLO-BZANG CHOS-GRAGS’ writing in terms of content but the sentences are more sophisticated (see SANGS-RGYAS RGayA-MTSHO 2005: 394/4-395/4). BLO-BZANG CHOS-GRAGS’ achievements in compounding medicines BLO-BZANG CHOS-GRAGS’ explanation of the com- plex connection between the taste and effect of substances in compounded medicines is another achievement described in chapter twenty-one of his Unfolded Trees of the Explanatory Tantra (an introductory guide to the following, including an image of an unfolded tree depicting this topic has been published in SABERNIG 2014a: 223{). In this text BLO-BZANG CHOS-GRAGS does not dwell on dif ferent groups of ingredients defined in terms of the problems they treat, instead he simply mentions the existence of these groups. It is not clear why he does not go into depth with regard to the groups. possibly because the ingredients are not only listed but even accurately depicted on two thangkas ac- companying the Blue Beryl (for more details on his treatise in comparison with the thangkas: see SAB- ERNIG 2013; however, he also compiled another text on different kinds of medicines mentioned in the third and fourth part of the Four Tantras: BLO-BZANG CHos-GRAGS 2005b). The second part of the chap- ter, explaining the combination of different tastes, is divided in two sections which are very short in the Explanatory Tantra: in the first place we find all possible combinations of taste in general and in the second place we find specific combinations of tastes or qualities. to cure certain imbalances described as 109 the seventy-four major dyscrasias of combined in- crease and decrease (vphel zad bdun cu rtsa bzhi). In contrast to the Explanatory Tantra, BLO-BZANG CHOs-GRAGS lists each possible combination of tastes individually, but it is not his own achieve- ment, the combinations of tastes are already listed in detail in the older Mes povi zhal lung (BLO-GROS RayAL-Po 2005: 733/19-735/6.) as well as in the younger Vaidürya sngon po (SANGS-RGYAS RGYA- UTSHO 2005: 550/3-552/3). His instructions on the second section, the phar- macological treatments of the seventy-four dyscra- sias are more remarkable although it is not clear if he just compiled them or if really composed the text. For example MI-PHAM DGE-LEGS RNAM-RGYAL also wrote a text explaining the taste and effect of medicine (sman gyi ro nus, cf. Mı-PHAM DGE-LEGS RNAM-RGYAL 2005; CzAJAa 2008: 76; Kııty 2010: 328, 609). Although my examination of his text is Just prelimiary, I may conclude that in terms of length and content it can be compared with BLo- BZANG CHOoS-GRAGS shorter contribution on the “general meaning” in his commentary to the mate- ria medica, but the two texts differ in many cases. However, the major imbalances of the three nyes pa are listed in the twelfth chapter of the Explana- tory Tantra, the chapter of classification of diseases (nad kyi dbye ba). In the context of pharmacology the Explanatory Tantra just mentions the existence of the seventy-four imbalances in form of a single verse (G.YU-THOG Yon-TAN Mcon-Po 1992: 77/13). BLO-BZANG CHOS-GRAGS’ detailed suggestions for the pharmacological treatment of each of the seventy- four major imbalances cannot be found in full in either commentary. What we learn in this section is a logical combination of three medical theories: the concept of advanced Tibetan humoral pathology is combined with the six tastes and in less complex cases with the seventeen qualities. The instructions form the basis of a multicomponent remedy or sub- stitute to certain ingredients within a pre-existing formula. The following examples should highlight the manner of his statements: The eighteen imbalances are caused by a distur- bance of a single humour in different intensities. For example: “Increased r/ung should be overcome by salty taste and oily, heavy and warm qualities” {rlung vphel ba ro lan tshwa ba nus pa snum lci dro bas vjoms pa). “Very increased rlung should be overcome by sour taste and oily, heavy, hot and Curare 371(201412

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