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Manage No, Sortation, Country, Writer ,Date, Copyright Manage No EE00001201 Country Mongolia ICH Domain Knowledge and practices about nature and the universe Address throughout the MongoliaYear of Designation 1965
| Description | Nomadic Mongols, while moving from place to place tending to their domestic animals in the severe continental climate of Central Asia with four different seasons, have created and practiced the peculiar way of traditional medicine and treatment of various illnesses. The methods of treatments experienced for centuries which derived from their simple lives, later have recognized as the traditional medicine. There are many traditional methods of treating illnesses including bleeding and lancing wounds, cauterizing wounds, puncturing with a needle to cure a disease, massaging, and treating by unorthodox means. In the west these methods are famous as “Five oriental treatment methods”. Medical herbs, limbs of animals, and minerals are used as natural forms of medical treatment individually or sometimes mixed with each other. |
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| Social and cultural significance | Mongolians still prefer to use traditional medicine on any occasion, considering them more natural and healthy than modern pharmaceutics. Traditional medicine exists in the folk communities and the knowledge is mastered by indigenous people such as herdsmen or peasants who have no formal educational experience in medicinal schools. |
| Transmission method | by apprenticeship training |
| Community | Traditional medicine exists in the folk communities and the knowledge is mastered by indigenous people such as herdsmen or peasants who have no formal educational experience in medicinal schools. However there are dedicated hospitals. The regular hospitals also use traditional medicine for specific treatments. |
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Forms of folk traditional medicine
Nomadic Mongols, while moving from place to place tending to their domestic animals in the severe continental climate of Central Asia with four different seasons, have created and practiced the peculiar way of traditional medicine and treatment of various illnesses. The methods of treatments experienced for centuries which derived from their simple lives, later have recognized as the traditional medicine. There are many traditional methods of treating illnesses including bleeding and lancing wounds, cauterizing wounds, puncturing with a needle to cure a disease, massaging, and treating by unorthodox means. In the west these methods are famous as “Five oriental treatment methods”. Medical herbs, limbs of animals, and minerals are used as natural forms of medical treatment individually or sometimes mixed with each other.
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PI00002233
Forms of folk traditional medicine
Nomadic Mongols, while moving from place to place tending to their domestic animals in the severe continental climate of Central Asia with four different seasons, have created and practiced the peculiar way of traditional medicine and treatment of various illnesses. The methods of treatments experienced for centuries which derived from their simple lives, later have recognized as the traditional medicine. There are many traditional methods of treating illnesses including bleeding and lancing wounds, cauterizing wounds, puncturing with a needle to cure a disease, massaging, and treating by unorthodox means. In the west these methods are famous as “Five oriental treatment methods”. Medical herbs, limbs of animals, and minerals are used as natural forms of medical treatment individually or sometimes mixed with each other.
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