Tibetan Medicine: A Buddhist Approach to Healing

This was filmed at the Tibetan Medical Center established in exile by the Dalai Lama in the Indian Himalayas--the only remaining center for Tibetan medicine. Ama Lobsang Dolam, Tibet's first woman doctor, shows how medicines are made from animal, vegetable and mineral substances and how acupuncture and moxibustion was used during her daily rounds as a practicing physician. The video explores the relationship of physical health to magnetic and other forces in the environment, showing how Tibetan medicine heals both the physical and the psychic being by treating the patient rather than the disease.