Chapter 19: Traditional Medicine

Well I have never been outside Bhutan, but I like its culture, its traditions: for example, that older people look after younger children, that they know how to treat young people.

Traditional medicine is similar to Ayurvedic medicine. Since establishing the College of Traditional Medicine here 30 years ago, we have still much research to do. For example, high altitude and low altitude medicines, medicines we extract from stones and minerals, and from animal parts.

We have to be fluent in Dzongka as well as in Choekey [the traditional Tibetan language]. We have to memorize just like monks. First there is the