This remarkable , contemporary presentation of the theory and practice Tibetan medicine, Dr. Yeshi Dhonden, long time personal physician of H.H. the Dalai Lama, draws from over fifty years' experience practicing and teaching this ancient tradition.
This volume vividly presents a series of lectures Dr. Dhonden gave before a group of health care professionals at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Dr. Dhonden elucidates the holistic Tibetan medical view of health and disease, referring to traditional Tibetan medical sources as well as his own experiences as a doctor practicing in Tibet, India, and numerous countries throughout Europe and America, His presentation is delightfully complemented by many anecdotes drawn from the ancient lore of popular folk medicine in Tibet.
This book is for health care professionals, anthropologists, historians of medicine, medical ethicists, and the general public interested in Tibetan medicine, this book is a fascinating contribution by one of the foremost practitioners of Tibetan medicine in the modern world.

Healing from the Source, Dr. Yeshe Dhonden, Snow Lion Publications, Paperback, 2000, 214 pages, $18.95.

Dr. Yeshe Dhonden was trained by the Venerable Dr. Khyenrab Norbu (1883 - 1962), personal physician to Holinesses the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Dalai Lamas and founder of the Men-Tsee-Khang and Tibetan Medical and Astrology Institute in Tibet. He has conducted research at the University of Virginia and has conducted clinical trials at the University of California San Francisco.

	Contents: Healing from the Source, The Science and Lore of Tibetan Medicine
	Author's Acknowledgments	9
	Translator's Preface	11
	Introduction: A Brief History of Tibetan Medicine	13
	Questions and Responses	16
	Part I: The Body in a State of Balance	19
1.	The Constituents of the Body in Good Health	21
2.	The Digestive Process	29
	Questions and Responses	34
	The Transformations of the Nutriment	37
	Questions and Responses	39
	The Transformations of the Residue	43
3.	The Humors	45
	The Classification of the Humors	45
	Questions and Responses	49
	The Formation of the Bodily Constituents in the Womb	47
	The General Locations and Functions of the Humors	51
	Questions and Responses	52
	The Specific Functions and Locations of the Humors	55
	Questions and Responses	58
	The Humoral Constitutions	60
	Part II: The Body in a State of Imbalance	65
4.	An Overview.	67
5.	The Distant Causes of Illness	70
6.	The Accumulation, Arousal, and Pacification of Humoral Disorders	72
	The Causes	72
	The Essential Natures	74
	The Seasons	74
7.	Conditions Contributing to Illness	77
	Common Contributing Conditions of Illness	77
	Specific Contributing Conditions	81
8.	The Manners of Entrance of Illnesses	83
9.	The Characteristics of Humoral Imbalances	85
	Symptoms of Excess	86
	Symptoms of Deficiency	88
	Symptoms of Disturbance	90
10.	Classifications of Diseases	94
	The Classification of Diseases on the Basis of Their Causes	94
	The Classification of Diseases on the Basis of Body Types	96
	Diseases Common to Everyone	97
	Part III: Healing from the Source	107
11.	On Being a Tibetan Physician	109
	The Causes of Becoming a Physician	109
	The Nature of a Physician	116
	The Designation of a Physician	116
	Categories of Physicians	116
	The Activities of a Physician	121
	The Results of Being a Physician	126
12.	A Tibetan Medical View of AIDS	127
13.	A Tibetan Medical View of Cancer	137
14.	Benign .and Malignant Tumors	144
	Questions and Responses.	155
15.	Wholesome Behavior	159
	Lifetime Behavior	159
	Mundane Conduct	159
	Spiritual Conduct	165
	Seasonal Behavior	167
	Occasional Behavior	169
	Questions and Responses	175
16.	The Potencies of Tastes	178
17.	Wholesome Diet	184
	Questions and Responses	186
	English-Tibetan-Sanskrit Medical Glossary	193
	Tibetan-English-Sanskrit Medical Glossary	199
	Glossary of Names	205
	Glossary of Texts	207
	Bibliography	209
	Index	211