Book reveals folk medicine
( 2003-08-26 09:38) (China Daily)
In his latest book "Xueyu
Yuanwang Shu (Wish Trees in the Snow Area)," veteran reporter Li Xiaolin
recorded with reverence the present challenges and opportunities facing Tibetan
medicine, and introduced in simple language the history of the ancient medicine.
The book is the fruit of Li's 18 trips to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau over the
past five years to visit dozens of Tibetan hospitals and interview hundreds of
Tibetan doctors.
His book introduces the dangers threatening the natural environment of the
plateau; the price of Tibetan medical herbs; the fate of Tibetan medicine
hospitals; the lives of famous Tibetan doctors; and the achievements of
entrepreneur Lei Jufang in developing the medicine.
"The book is itself a meaningful document," wrote Zhu Guobei, president of
the Chinese Ethnic Medicine Society in the preface.
In his trips Li went to sacred mountains, picked herbs along mountain paths
and slept among the flowers in the grassland. "No matter how I get across the
plateau I am always only ever on its edge. It has a great impact on everyone who
enters it. It's really a special land," wrote Li.
Born into a Miao family in Jianshi, Central China's Hubei Province, Li has
been a reporter for the Beijing-based Chinese Ethnic Groups magazine since 1988.
He had already published four books on ethnic group communities in China.
"Xueyu Yuanwang Shu (Wish Trees in the Snow Area)," by Li Xiaolin, 299 pages,
39.8 yuan (US$4.8), published by the China Tibetan Studies Publishing
House.
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