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Traditional Tibetan medicine or Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan: གསོ་བ་རིག་པ། (bod lugs) Gso ba rig pa) is the Tibetan medical system developed in the 8th century under King Trisong Detsen that incorporated the best international medical practices of that time. The medical treatise Giyud Shi, or the Four Tantras, was then originally composed and later edited in the 12th century.

LadakhLadakhUnion territory administered by IndiaRegion administered by India as a union territoryLadakh (English:, Hindustani) is a region administered by India as a union territory and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India and China since 1959.Trisong DetsenTrisong DetsenDynastyYarlungFatherMé AktsomMotherNanamza Mangpodé ZhitengReligionTibetan BuddhismTrisong Detsen (Tibetan: ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན, Wylie: khri srong lde btsan) was the 38th King (Tsenpo) of Tibet from 755 to 797, succeeding his father Tridé Tsuktsen.Lhasa TibetanLhasa TibetanStandardized dialect of TibetanLhasa Tibetan or Standard Tibetan is a standardized dialect of Tibetan spoken by the people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region. It is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region. In the traditional "three-branched" classification of the Tibetic languages, the Lhasa dialect belongs to the Central Tibetan branch (the other two being Khams Tibetan and Amdo Tibetan).IndiaIndiaCountry in South AsiaIndia, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the world's seventh-largest country by area and the largest by population. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives.BhutanBhutanBhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia, located in the Eastern Himalayas, bordering China's Tibet Autonomous Region to the north and northwest and India to the south and southeast. With a population of over 800,000 (800,871) and a territory of 38,394 square kilometres (14,824 sq mi), Bhutan ranks 133rd in land area and 160th in population.NepalNepalNepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north, and India to the south, east, and west, while it is narrowly separated from Bangladesh by the Siliguri Corridor, and from Bhutan by the Indian state of Sikkim.PharmacologyPharmacologyPharmacology is the science of drugs and medications, including a substance's origin, composition and interaction with biological systems; specifically through pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, therapeutic use, and toxicology. The discipline examines these interactions through pharmacokinetics (what the body does to the drug) and pharmacodynamics (what the drug does to the body), both of which determine how a substance alters normal or abnormal biochemical function.Inner MongoliaInner MongoliaAutonomous region of ChinaAutonomous region in ChinaInner Mongolia Autonomous RegionSimplified Chinese内蒙古自治区Traditional Chinese內蒙古自治區Hanyu PinyinNèiměnggǔ ZìzhìqūMongolian nameMongolian CyrillicӨвөр МонголMongolian scriptᠦᠪᠦᠷᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯUyghur nameUyghurئىچكى موڭغۇل ئاپتونوم رايونى‎Manchu nameManchu scriptᡩᠣᡵᡤᡳᠮᠣᠩᡤᠣRomanizationDorgi monggoBuryat nameBuryatҮбэр МонголÜber MongolKyrgyz nameKyrgyzىچكى مونعولىياIchki MongoliaKazakh nameKazakhىشكى موڭعولياIşkı MoñğoliaTuvan nameTuvanÖvür Mool oranӨвүр Моол оранStandard Tibetan nameStandard Tibetanནང་སོག་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས།Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR), is an autonomous region of China.MoxibustionMoxibustionMoxibustion (Chinese: 灸; pinyin: jiǔ) is a traditional Chinese medicine therapy which consists of burning dried mugwort (moxa) on particular points on the body. It plays an important role in the traditional medical systems of China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Mongolia. Suppliers usually age the mugwort and grind it up to a fluff; practitioners burn the fluff or process it further into a cigar-shaped stick.SikkimSikkimSikkim ( SIK-im; Nepali: [ˈsikːim]) is a state in northeast India. It borders Bhutan in the east, the Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the north and northeast, Koshi Province of Nepal in the west, and West Bengal in the south. Sikkim is one of the two Indian states that share their border with just one other Indian state — West Bengal. Sikkim is also close to the Siliguri Corridor, which borders Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.SamyeSamyeSamye Monastery (Tibetan: བསམ་ཡས་, Wylie: bsam yas, Chinese: 桑耶寺), full name Samye Migyur Lhundrub Tsula Khang (Wylie: Bsam yas mi ’gyur lhun grub gtsug lag khang) and Shrine of Unchanging Spontaneous Presence, is the first Tibetan Buddhist and Nyingma monastery built in Tibet, during the reign of King Trisong Deutsen.VenipunctureVenipunctureIn medicine, venipuncture or venepuncture is the process of obtaining intravenous access for the purpose of venous blood sampling (also called phlebotomy) or intravenous therapy. In healthcare, this procedure is performed by medical laboratory scientists, medical practitioners, some EMTs, paramedics, phlebotomists, dialysis technicians, and other nursing staff. In veterinary medicine, the procedure is performed by veterinarians and veterinary technicians.

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