Category Tibetan Medicine in the West

Tibetan Medicine in Europe – Italy

TME – Tibetan Medicine Education center is a non-profit organization located in Italy, dedicated to the transmission and preservation of traditional Tibetan medicine and its related sciences to the West. Its purpose is to not only teach the Tibetan medicine traditional concepts and salient characteristics, but also to share and be the witness of its contemporary […]

Tibetan Medicine in North America – U.S.A – West Coast

There are several places that you can get consultation or appropriate treatment with Tibetan Medicine, listed below are located in West Coast of the United States. Tibetan Wellness and Healing Center TIBETAN WELLNESS & HEALING CENTER (TWHC) offers alternative, complementary, and holistic or wholistic form of medicine and healing approaches in San Francisco and Daly […]

Tibetan Medicine in Europe – UK

Chunga Lhamo and two of her friends participate in a horticulture training organized at the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens. The aim of the training is to help Tibetan doctors face the challenge of cultivating medicinal plants that are quickly disappearing from the Tibetan Plateau. One of these plants is the blue Himalayan poppy, a plant that also […]

Tibetan Medicin in U.S.A. – The Second International Conference on Tibetan Medicine

“Tibetan Medicine highlights compassion in modern health care“ – By E. Tammy Kim, Al Jazeera America The American Tibetan Medical Association, Inc. (ATMA)  is a nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to the promotion and preservation of Tibetan medicine. Since its formation in 2008, the organization has initiated a movement to preserve and promote the practice of Tibetan medicine (TM), […]

Tibetan Medicine in Europe – Switzerland

PADMA Inc. has been producing plant-based remedies and food supplements on the basis of Tibetan formulas in Switzerland since 1969. The company considers itself to be a proponent of integrative medicine, combines modern research and therapies of orthodox and complementary medicine with a holistic view of the human condition. The goal is a treatment adjusted to […]

Tibetan Medcine Exhibition in NYC

Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine  March 15, 2014 – September 8, 2014 Location: The Rubin Museum of Art The first major exhibition to present the origins, history and practice of a millennium of visual history, Bodies in Balance explores the guiding principles of the Tibetan science of healing represented in medical paintings, manuscripts, and […]

Tibetan Medicine in the West – School of Tibetan Medicine, International Shang Shung Institute

If you are interested in Tibetan Medicine and would like to take the step further, become a qualified Tibetan Medicine Doctor, then there is a School of Tibetan Medicine located in 18 Schoolhouse Rd, Conway, MA 01341, where you can learn more about Tibetan Medicine. The School of Tibetan Medicine, Shang Shung Institute  is founded by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, and is the first […]

Current development of Tibetan Medicine in the West – PADMA

In terms of modern western medical research there is one formula that has been extensively researched according to western standards, Padma 28. The Swiss company Padma AG, founded by Karl Lutz, started manufacturing Padma 28 in Europe in 1970. Karl Lutz also initiated scientific research programmes in this field. Padma 28 was developed from the […]