Beijing, October 22. According to Xinhua news agency, "The tibetan medicine, which used to be popular only among the tibetan people, has become a hot spot for study among international academic circles. The medicine is a systematic science evolved by tibetan people in their life against harsh natural conditions and is different from other schools of traditional chinese medicine and western medicine in pathology. A main difference lies in that, a large part of the medicaments used in tibetan medicine is produced with medicinal herbs growing only on the qinghai-tibet plateau, some of which are more effective in curing rheumatism, fracture and cardiovascular disease than other medicines. The academy of medical sciences and other medical universities of the country have established relevant organizations for the study of tibetan medicine. at the same time, scholars from India, Nepal, Pakistan, Switzerland, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan, America also joined in the study. The research carried out b

y both domestic and overseas scholars center on the basic theories, sorting out and translating tibet medical books written in the past, exploring old prescriptions, investigation of medicinal resources, pharmacology of tibetan medicine and floral chemistry as well as the effect of tibetan medicaments. (EuroTibet News N·4)