T Tibetan medicine has its roots in the original shamanic religion of Tibet, Bön, and in early
Tantric teachings (Baker and Shrestha 1997). Buddhism was introduced into Tibet around …

In Thailand, hemp is known as gan-chaa. It is numbered among the traditional medicines,
but is now illegal.(from Ponglux et al.) oday, hemp is found throughout Southeast Asia, on …

The oldest Chinese book extant, the Shih-Ching or Shijing (following the Pinyin system), the"
Book of Songs," was written in northern China sometime between the ninth and sixth century …

T The Vedas, or Vedic scriptures, constitute the oldest literature of India. Veda can be
roughly translated as" knowledge"; even today, the Vedic scriptures are regarded as the …

Among the cuneiform texts left by the Assyrians are a series of medicinal herbals.(excerpt
from the herbal text from the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, Nineveh; from …

W Western medicine has its roots in the late Middle Ages of Europe, back to the Italian
schools of surgery that were established in Salerno and Bologna in the early thirteenth …

The smoking and enjoying of hemp products is widespread and culturally accepted in many
parts of the Islamic-Arabic world. The medicinal use is also socially approved.(copperplate …

The smoking of different blends of herbs is one of the essential medicinal-ritual practices of
the North American Indians. In this medicine lodge, a patient is being treated by a shaman …

A f all the continents, Africa has given us the fewest psychoactive plants, or its people have
only discovered and integrated a few into their cultures (de Smet 1996). In many parts of …

Tibetan Medicine is one of the world's oldest surviving medical traditions, preserved intact
but currently threatened by cultural and political upheaval. Tibetan Medicine is primarily an …