Dataset of materia medica in Sowa Rigpa: Tibetan medicine botanicals and Gawe Dorje's classification system.

ABSTRACT: This article provides the most updated dataset of Latin botanical identifications for the materia medica in Tibetan medicine, known as Bö Luk Sowa Rigpa (Tib. Bod lugs gso ba rig pa), or the "Tibetan knowledge field of healing," often denoted in English simply as Sowa Rigpa. As one of the major scholarly Asian traditional medical systems, Sowa Rigpa is the principal health resource for populations across Tibetan regions of China, Mongolia, Bhutan, Nepal, India, and culturally-related areas of Russia. The geography represented by this medicinal plant dataset extends across the entire Tibetan plateau, its adjacent ranges, the wider transregional Himalayas, central Asia and much of the Indian subcontinent. Data collection drew from textual analysis of the seminal works of the Tibetan m

SUBMITTER: Wangyal R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7689029 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature