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Re: [iastam] Burmese medicine

Hello Pierce Salguero,

Its not clear from your question whether you mean traditional Burmese medicine, or medicine in general. However, at the time I did my own research on Thai traditional medicine, some years back,  I also searched for information on Burmese traditional medicine. Based on that search, as far as I'm aware there are no bibiographies available on Burmese traditional medicine, and very few sources of information. Hopefully the situation may have changed in the interim. The best I can offer at present is the following:
1. A description in Shway Yoe's The Burman (pp 413-426) that includes references to the four elements theory, the role of belief in spirits, sympathetic magic and reference to the large number of ingredients in traditional prescriptions.
2. A reference to treatment of illness in the work by Sangermano (1893, pp. 166-174).
3. I also believe there is a collection of traditional Burmese medical texts in the National Library, Rangoon (Yangon). I'm not sure whether anyone has done any work based on these.

Unfortunately I don't have additional details of the publications mentioned above, but nevertheless hope that this will be of some help.

Regards,
Scott Bamber
Bangkok

On Aug 23, 2007, at 7:41 AM, Pierce Salguero wrote:

Hello,

Does anyone have any bibliographies or sources of information on Burmese medicine?

Thanks!

Pierce Salguero
Institute of History of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University




Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:22 am

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Hello, Does anyone have any bibliographies or sources of information on Burmese medicine? Thanks! Pierce Salguero Institute of History of Medicine Johns...
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Aug 23, 2007
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Hello Pierce Salguero, Its not clear from your question whether you mean traditional Burmese medicine, or medicine in general. However, at the time I did my...
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Aug 23, 2007
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Dear Pierce, While I have no personal experience with traditional Burmese medicine, I have in the past spoken with Sri Lankan Ayurvedic physicians who have...
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Aug 24, 2007
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Hi Pierce, you could have a look at the COPAC entries under the search "Burmese medicine", or "Burma medical" etc. www.copac.ac.uk Quite a lot comes up....
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Aug 24, 2007
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Thanks to all for the suggestions. I left the question as open as possible so as to elicit the broadest response. I am looking for materials for a hypothetical...
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