The Chinese Tibetan pharmacy and other ethnic medicines have
attracted the world's attention and will be better known in the
future, said Huang Fukai, president of the Beijing Tibetan and
Ethnic Medicine Hospital, Wednesday. On the inauguration ceremony
of the Association of Chinese Ethnic Medicine (ACEM) Wednesday,
Huang was elected deputy executive chairman for his great
contribution to the promotion of Tibetan pharmacy and minority
ethnic medicines.
"Chinese ethnic medicine, especially Tibetan pharmacy has been
approved useful by international medical circle," Huang said,
noting that the Beijing Tibetan and Ethnic Medicine Hospital
annually received more than 20,000 person times of foreign
visitors. "The foreigners thought our ethnic medicine magical and
amazing," Huang said at the inauguration ceremony. Even foreign
doctors would not imagine that such diseases as rheumatoid
diseases, ankylosing spondylitis, hemiplegia could be treated by
Tibetan medicinal bathing.
Ever since its founding in 1992, the hospital has received more
than one million person times of patients, of which 30 million-plus
came from China's Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan as well as 60
countries and regions.
"However, the whole world even the inland Chinese people were
still lack of knowledge on the thousand-year-old Tibetan medicine,
" Huang said, stressing that the ethnic medicine declined or even
vanish since most of them have no paper record. To save the ethnic
medicine, the Chinese government financially supported experts and
scholars to carry out large-scale investigation in Tibet, to rescue
and collect traditional treating methods of the Tibetan people. Up
to now, a book collecting 10,000-plus kinds of recipes was complied
and published. With the government's support, the Beijing Tibetan
and Ethnic Medicine Hospital joined hands with universities to
innovate ancient medicine, to develop substitute of rare herbs and
to build up databank of rare medicine species. The hospital has now
made breakthrough on planting of safranal and zangmuxiang that were
widely applied in the modern Tibetan medicine. Huang revealed that
a joint-program between the Chinese and German governments was on
the way to show the Chinese ethnic medicine in European
countries.
(Xinhua News Agency September 6, 2007)
