History of Tibetan Medicine
With a history of more than 2,000 years, Tibetan Medicine had already developed into a branch of the medical filed. According to the records, Tibetan had realized the functions of the herbs, animals and minerals on the people’s health since that time. Tibetan medicine dates back to about the 7th century AD at which time the Tibetan ruler, King Songtsen Gampo summoned his court physicians from China, India, and Iran to develop this medicinal system.  During this time, one of the famous Tibetan kings, Songsten Gampo, hosted what is now recognized as the First International Conference on Tibetan Medicine in Samye, the original capital of Tibet. He invited many doctors, scholars, and researchers from neighboring countries including Afghanistan, China, Greece, India, Nepal and Persia to exchange valuable knowledge. Since that time, TM also has been considered the essence of medicine because wisdom and unique features of other healing traditions such as Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, and Greek medicine, contributed to TM. Now, please come with us to know more about Tibetan Medicine.

What are made of ?
Traditional Tibetan medicines are made of natural, precious, rare Tibetan drugs which are grown in the roof of the world under the ecological environment. Here is a brief list of the main Tibetan medical plants. Historically, the Tibetan region has been a great treasure trove of medicinal plants in China. According to preliminary statistics, there are more than one thousand kinds of wild medicinal plants. 

Popular at home and abroad valuable medicinal herbs: cordyceps, the bulb of fritillary, pseudo-ginseng, gastrodia elata, glossy ganoderma. 

Potential anticancer medicinal plants: cephalotaxus hainanensis, taxus chinensis, podophyllum, dysosma versipellis, arnebia euchroma, sageretia gracilis, crotalaria sessiiflora.

Other traditional Tibetan herbs: fructus amomi, uncaria, gentiana macrophylla, the root bark of the peony tree, pawpaw, Paris polyphylla, ephedra, peach kernel, coptis chinensis, radix bupleuri, angelica sinensis, astragalus membranaceus, radix gentianae, codonopsis pilosul, aconite, rheum officinale, root of chinese barberry, snow lotus herb, schisandra chinensis baill etc.

How Does Tibetan Medicine Work Effectively?
The Qinghai-Tibet plateau, known as "the third pole" on the earth, has an average altitude of more than 4000 meters. It has special natural conditions such as anoxic atmosphere and low temperature, longer sunshine time, strong ultraviolet radiation, large difference in temperature between day and night, complex topography, pollution-free environmental. Under these conditions, only plants that struggle with severe snow, ice and strong winds can survive. Therefore, Tibetan medicine plants can resist cold and drought and receive strong photosynthesis which make the accumulation of pharmacodynamic components high and the medicinal properties unique and strong. Tibetan medicine has the characteristics that are not available to plants in other areas beyond the plateau. This is the important reason why Tibetan medicine is strong and pure and has remarkable curative effect.

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