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What is the name for Tibetan medicine and what does it mean?
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Sowa Rigpa --"healing medicine"
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What are the influences of TM?
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During the first half of the 7th century, along with Buddhism, Indian medicine was adopted in Tibet (ayurvedic), later TM was enriched with Chinese and Persion influences
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What are the core textbooks of TM?
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gyu-zhi--the four tantras
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What is the connection between Buddhism and TM?
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Buddhism: psychological religion, has a system of understanding the mind, emotion, and suffering.
Main goal is to prevent suffering the Buddha--great physician |
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What are the 4 Noble Truths?
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1. Truth of suffering
2. Truth of the origin/cause of suffering (desire) 3. Truth of the cessation/end of suffering (extinguish desire) 4. Truth of the path to end suffering (follow 8 fold path) |
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What are the three kinds of suffering in Buddhism?
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1. Suffering of suffering
2. Suffering of change 3. Pervasive suffering of conditioned existence |
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What is klesha?
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"afflictive emotions" -- can be condensed into three poisons of ignorance, anger, and attachment --> mental-emotional obscurations
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What is the cause of suffering? What does this give rise to?
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fundamental ignorance -- innate grasping onto a permanent separate "self" (ego-clinging)
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Leads to afflictive emotions, or klesha (ignorance, anger, attachment) which impel actions of body, speech and mind and give rise to suffering and disease
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What are the 3 humors or faults (nyespas)?
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rLung: wind/air, mobile energy, attachment, qi (chi), overuse of mind
Tripa: bile, heat energy, anger, yang, misuse of mind Bad-kan: phlegm, cold/heavy energy, ignorance, yin, disuse of mind |
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What is the idea behind the 5 elements? What are they?
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Everything in the universe (both animate and inanimate) is made up of elements
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Space, air, fire, water, earth
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What is the idea behind the 5 elements? What are they?
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Everything in the universe (both animate and inanimate) is made up of elements
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Space, air, fire, water, earth
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How is heath understood in Tibetan medicine?
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As a balance of all three humors -- disease is caused by one or more of the humors being too much, too little, or out of place
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What factors affect the 3 humors in us? How does age play a role?
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Everyone has a natural constitution (i.e. rLung body constitution), age influences the dominant humor, seasons
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baby= bad-kan
young adult = tripa old age = rLung |
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What are symptoms of rLung disorder?
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Feeling cold, shivering, pain in joints, dull-sensory organs (blurred vision), dry rough skin, restless mind and body, talkative, changeable moods, anxious for no reason
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What are symptoms of Tripa disorder?
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Bitter taste in mouth, frequent headaches, surface fever, aches in upper body, digestion pain
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What are symptoms of Bad-kan?
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Loss of appetite, fullness of stomach w/o eating, vomiting, heaviness of mind and body, indigestion, belching, no sense of taste, coldness in mind and body, discomfort after eating
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What is used to make a diagnosis in TM?
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1. Sight (behavior, tongue, urine)
2. Touch (pulse reading) 3. Interview |
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What are the signs of the humors in pulse reading?
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rLung -- irregular, weak, like a balloon under water
Tripa -- fast, strong, even when pressed down Badkan -- slow, sinking, weak |
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What are remedies used in TM?
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1. Lifestyle
2. Diet 3. Medicine (herbal pills) 4. Physical treatments (moxibustion, cupping, massage, inhalation therapy, sesame oil and nutmeg treatment for rLung) |
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What are remedies specific to each disorder?
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rLung -- Greasy, nutritious food (cooked), warm places, close friends
Trip -- Cool food and cool conduct (sitting by seashore) Bad-kan -- Hot food and conduct (sitting by fire, sitting in sun, wearing warm clothing) |
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What are remedies specific to each disorder?
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rLung -- Greasy, nutritious food (cooked), warm places, close friends
Trip -- Cool food and cool conduct (sitting by seashore) Bad-kan -- Hot food and conduct (sitting by fire, sitting in sun, wearing warm clothing) |
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Which humor is linked to psychiatric disorders?
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rLung disorders
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