Health Through Balance: An Introduction to Tibetan Medicine

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The fascinating Tibetan Medical system has never been so clearly explained as in this collection of outstanding lectures presented at the University of Virginia in 1980. Tibetan medicine restore and maintains balance among the three humors of the body through a variety of treatments-diets and behaviour modification as well as the use of medicine and accessory therapy. The basic system has been enhanced by the practical findings of Tibetan physicians who have used the system for more than a thousand years. Dr. Donden holistically considers factors of personality, season, age, climatic condition, diet, behaviour, and physical surroundings in addressing the means for restoring health. The great strength of Tibetan medicine is that it is delicately responsive to patients, complete symptom pattern â€“no complaint being disregarded and its wide variety of curative techniques are described in this book.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jeffrey Hopkins

Jeffrey Hopkins is Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia. His more than twenty-five books include Emptiness in the Mind-Only School of Buddhism (California, 1999) Cultivating Compassion (2001), and, as translator-editor, His Holiness the Dalai Lama's How to Practice (2002) and The Meaning of Life (2000).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Yeshi Donden

Dr. Yeshi Donden was born in 1929 and received the traditional Tibetan medical training in Hlasa, Tibet. Beginning in 1960, he served for over two decades as the personal physician to H.H. the Dalai Lama in Dharamsalla, India. There he re-established the Tibetan Medical Center and achieved fame by his successful treatment of many renowned people. Dr. Donden continues to serve a great number of patients around the world.