Bod ljong rgyun spyo krung dbyi’i sman rig s C. One was the revolutionary Chinese medical work Chinese Herbal Medicines Common in Tibet (Tib. Stark shifts occurred in official policy and attitudes toward rural Tibetan medical doctors and Tibetan medicine practice, as is evident in accounts of amchi from Ngamring and textbooks available to them. 1 Although this radically different story of how Communist health care spread beyond Lhasa and other administrative centers after 1969 is largely undocumented, examination of the role of Chinese and Tibetan medicine in this endeavor in rural Tsang illuminates the state of Tibetan medical knowledge at that time and permits comparison with rural and urban China proper. chijiao yisheng), locally known as amchi kangjenma or menpa kangjenma. I t was not until the height of what is generally known now as the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) that basic Communist health care arrived in rural Tibetan villages, delivered by the “barefoot doctors” (C. Barefoot Doctor’s New Tibetan Medical Compounding Manual Tibetan medicine and pharmaceuticals are a part of the motherland’s medical treasure house. With a lack of Tibetan medical students, almost all hope for Tibetan medicine was lost. Like everything else in Tibetan culture and education, so also Tibetan medical theory and all precious cultural objects were destroyed.
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