Research Publications on Tibetan medicine

Cancer

• • Tibetan Medicine for Cancer: An Overview and Review of Case Studies
  • The Four Treatises and the Global Market: Changing Epistemologies of Drä (bras) versus Cancer
  • Collapsing Cancer: An hermeneutical and praxis-based comparative analysis of cancer and Tibetan medical etiological categories
  • Facilitating Collaborative Research Foundations: The Role of Blood and Chuser in How Biomedical Cancer Maps into Tibetan Medical Nosology
  • Pro-apoptotic and anticancer properties of Thapring – A Tibetan herbal formulation
  • Molecular insights into the anti-cancer properties of Traditional Tibetan medicine Yukyung Karne
  • Anticancer and cytotoxic properties of the latex of Calotropis procera in a transgenic mouse model of hepatocellular carcinoma
  • An Integrated Study on the Antitumor Effect and Mechanism of Triphala Against Gynecological Cancers Based on Network Pharmacological Prediction and In Vitro Experimental Validation
  • Apoptosis induced by the Tibetan herbal remedy PADMA 28 in the T cell-derived lymphocytic leukaemia cell line CEM-C7H2

Multiple Sclerosis/Neurodegenerative Conditions

• • Sowa Rigpa in Lockdown: On the Potency and Politics of Prevention
  • Tibetan Medicine and Regeneration
  • Experience of padma 28 in multiple sclerosis – Korwin‐Piotrowska – 1992 – Phytotherapy Research

COVID-19

• • Sowa Rigpa in Lockdown: On the Potency and Politics of Prevention
  • Covid-19 and Tibetan Medicine: An Awakening Tradition in a New Era of Global Health Crisis

Diabetes

• • Efficacy of Tibetan Medicine as an Adjunct in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes

Hepatitis

• • Clinical Trial of Tibetan Medicine in the Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B

Atherosclerosis

• • Treating intermittent claudication with Tibetan medicine Padma 28: Does it work?

Arthritis

• • Efficacy of the Tibetan treatment for arthritis

Menjor/Tibetan Pharmacology

• • Conceptions of Potency, Purity, and Synergy-by-Design: Toward Developing a Sowa Rigpa Medical Theory-based Approach to Pharmaceutical Research
  • Dataset of materia medica in Sowa Rigpa: Tibetan medicine botanicals and Gawé Dorjé’s classification system
  • Geopharmaceuticals of Himalayan Sowa Rigpa medicine: Ethnopharmacological uses, mineral diversity, chemical identification and current utilization in Bhutan
  • The Buddhist–Medical Interface in Tibet: Black Pill Traditions in Transformation
  • The Social Life of Tsotel
  • The Alchemy of Accomplishing Medicine (sman sgrub): Situating the “Yuthok Heart Essence” (G.yu thog snying thig) in Literature and History
  • The Administration of Tibetan Precious Pills: Efficacy in Historical and Ritual Contexts

Tsotel

• • Mercury in traditional Tibetan medicine-panacea or problem?
  • Is mercury in Tibetan Medicine toxic? Clinical, neurocognitive and biochemical results of an initial cross-sectional study
  • Taming the Poisonous: Mercury, Toxicity and Safety in Tibetan Medical Practice
  • Chemical Species, Micromorphology, and XRD Fingerprint Analysis of Tibetan Medicine Zuotai Containing Mercury
  • Mercury in Traditional Medicines: Is Cinnabar Toxicologically Similar to Common Mercurials? 
  • Characterization of Tibetan Medicine Zuota by Multiple Techniques
  • An Integrated Study on the Antitumor Effect and Mechanism of Triphala Against Gynecological Cancers Based on Network Pharmacological Prediction and In Vitro Experimental Validation
  • Cinnabar is not converted into methylmercury by human intestinal bacteria

Pharmacological Research

• • Dental benefits:
    • Padma 28 in the treatment of chronic dental pulpitis: an observational case study in 49 patients
  • Respiratory conditions: 
    • Influence of Padma 28 on the spontaneous bactericidal activity of blood serum in children suffering from recurrent infections of the respiratory tract
  • Immune Function: 
    • The effect of Padma-28, a traditional Tibetan herbal preparation, on human neutrophil function
    • Defined Small Molecules Produced by Himalayan Medicinal Plants Display Immunomodulatory Properties
  • Efficacy/Safety:
    • Clinical Studies on the Efficacy and Safety of Padma 28, a Complex Herbal Formulation from Tibetan Medicine: An Overview
  • Circulatory System:
    • The Tibetan herbal medicines Padma 28 and Padma Circosan inhibit the formation of advanced glycation endproducts (AGE) and advanced oxidation protein products (AOPP) in vitro
  • Anti-inflammatory/Antimicrobial: 
    • The Effect of Anti-Inflammatory and Antimicrobial Herbal Remedy PADMA 28 on Immunological Angiogenesis and Granulocytes Activity in Mice
    • Anti-Inflammatory Mechanisms of the Tibetan Herbal Preparation Padma 28 in the Vessel Wall
  • Antimalaria: 
    • Antimalarial Alkaloids from a Bhutanese Traditional Medicinal Plant Corydalis Dubia
    • A new protoberberine alkaloid from Meconopsis simplicifolia (D. Don) Walpers with potent antimalarial activity against a multidrug resistant Plasmodium falciparum strain

Introductions/Overviews/Foundational Theory

• • Tibetan medicine: a complementary science of optimal health.
  • Medicine and Memory in Tibet: Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform
  • Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine
  • Women and Gender in Tibetan Medicine
  • Nyes pa: A brief review of its English translation
  • Mind/Body Theory and Practice in Tibetan Medicine and Buddhism
  • Tibetan medicine: a unique heritage of person-centered medicine

Miscellaneous

• • Tibetan Medicine: A Systematic Review of the Clinical Research Available in the West
  • Traditional Tibetan medicine in China: A systematic overview of randomized clinical trials
  • Tibetan Medical Informatics: An Emerging Field in Sowa Rigpa Pharmacological & Clinical Research