Efficacy of the Tibetan treatment for arthritis

Mary Ryan

Social Science & Medicine, 1997, vol. 44, issue 4, 535-539

Abstract: Tibetans in the refugee communities in Northern India are exposed to both traditional Tibetan and Western medicine. For Tibetans suffering from arthritis (or trung-bo), the Tibetan treatment was compared with the Western treatment in an open randomized controlled trial. On a significance level of 0.0005, this trial demonstrated that for these Tibetans, their indigenous treatment worked better than the Western treatment for improved limb mobility.

Keywords: arthritis; Tibetan; medicine; limb; mobility; efficacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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