Ethnomedicine in the Web

If you are interested in ethnomedicine beyond the articles on this website, you might find the links in the following paragraphs useful. They are divided according to the three Asian traditions we are particularly interested in: India and Ayurveda, Traditional Tibetan Medicine (TTM) and the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

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General links about Ethnomedicine

http://www.univie.ac.at/ethnomedicine/
The website of the Society for Ethnomedicine at the University of Vienna

http://www.institut-ethnomed.de/
The Institute for Ethnomedicine e. V. is a society from Munich that organises an annual meeting on ethnotherapies.

http://www.igm.med.uni-muenchen.de/index.html
The website of the Institute for History of Medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich; chair is Prof. Unschuld

http://www.igm.uni-freiburg.de/
Institute for the History of Medicine at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg.

http://www.meb.uni-bonn.de/mhi/
The Institute for the History of Medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn does ethnomedical fieldwork

http://www.mhiz.unizh.ch/
The Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Zurich and its Paracelsus Project.

www.who.int/
The World Health Organisation offers a wealth of information about ethnomedicine and provides a literature order service

http://www.toyama-mpu.ac.jp/riw/mmmw/
The Museum of Materia Medica in Japan presents exhibits of far eastern medical traditions
 

Indian Ayurveda

http://www.ayurveda.de/
Website of the German Society for Ayurveda (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ayurveda e. V.,) provides a lot of background information in German and advice on how to choose a therapist. Commercial, but with a lot of care.

http://www.mahindra-institut.de/
Private educational institute with seminars, courses and lectures

http://www.ayurvedic.org/ayurveda/index.asp
A commercial website with a lot of information on ayurveda and own products such as herbal extracts, oils and literature.

http://www.everydayayurveda.org/
A commercial website by a society that provides a lot of information about ayurveda with advice about exercises, a healthy lifestyle and the own curriculum

http://www.mapi.com/
This website provides a lot of information and offers direct contact to the people in charge with maintaining the site for further questions
 

Traditional Tibetan Medicine

http://www.tibet.com/Med_Astro/
The Government of Tibet in Exile. Tibetan Medicine and Astrology.

http://www.tibetan-medicine.org/
Tibetan Medical and Astrology Institute (TMAI) of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Men-Tsee-Khang in Dharamsala.

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/dead/
Literature and art with poems and rituals from Tibet, India and Nepal

http://www.padma.ch/
PADMA AG, a Swiss pharmaceutical company that produces some drugs based on substances used in Traditional Tibetan Medicine

http://www.buddhabedurya.org/index.html
An organisation that offers seminars in yoga, meditation and Tibetan Medicine

http://www.dana-ev.de/
Society for the conservation of Tibetan culture and medicine, Munich

http://www.ig-tibetische-medizin.ch/
Swiss society that organises courses and seminars about Tibetan Medicine

http://www.ittm.org/
A website on research, archive work and herb culture projects from Kalimpong, India

http://www.newyuthok.it/
The institute for Tibetan Medicine from Milan, Italy. Chair is Pasang Tonten Arya Tendi Sherpa

http://www.tibetischemedizin.org/
Detailed website on Tibetan Medicine from Austria

http://www.bremen.de/info/nepal/Inhalt-D5.htm
Or: http://www.thangka.de/
Dharmapala Centre (school of thangka-art). 77 thangkas of the blue beryll. Thanks to this website for some of the images that we are allowed to use here on Ethnomedico.com!

http://www.tibetmed.org/index.htm
Tibet Medicine of the Alternative Medicine Foundation.

http://www.dharma-haven.org/
Information on Tibetan Medicine, with strong references to the religious foundation and framework
 

Traditional Chinese Medicine

http://venus.unive.it/dsao/pregadio/
"The Golden Elixir" publishes information about history and basics of Chinese alchemy

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/
This website by Purdue University deals with Chinese medication and therapies – including references about horticulture

http://www.oxford.net/~ginseng/history.htm
This private website deals in detail with the history and properties of ginseng and related products

http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/mss/plntmedi.htm
Harvard University presents articles on Chinese herbs and pharmaceuticals

http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/296_tea.html
The "Food and Drug Administration - FDA", a US government organisation, dealing with tea on these webpages

http://www.americanacupuncture.com/index.html
A private website with extensive information about accupuncture

http://www.bjucmp.edu.cn/
Official website of Bejing University on TCM, in Mandarin.

http://www.edepot.com/taointro.html
A private website on essential aspects of the philosophical and religious basis of TCM, the Taoism

http://www.csun.edu/~hbchm009/confucius.html
California State University in Northridge presents the philosopher Kung-Fu Tse (Confucius)

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/chinese/chinesehome.html
The National Library of Medicine, run by the National Institutes of Health of the USA dedicates some pages to TCM

http://www.itmonline.org/docs/famous.htm
A private website about famous Chinese doctors and scholars of the past

http://www.taijichinesemedicine.com/TCMhistory.htm
A private website on the history and development of Chinese Medicine

http://uweb.superlink.net/~fsu/index.html
A private website on Chinese philosophy

http://www.china-klinik.de/
General information about TCM in German.

http://www.tcm.edu/
Official website of the International Society for Traditional Chinese Medicine


 

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