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Abstract@#In addition to citing from the old medical scriptures by Indian, Tibetan, and Mongolian medical scholars, “Mthong ba dga’ byad” by Jigmeddanzanjamts, also contains a number of prescriptions of Chinese medicine that were widely used in Chinese medical practice at that time. Therefore, crude drugs and prescriptions of Chinese medicine in this book has a great significance, but there are few studies done in the last decades. @*Purpose@#To make selection of Chinese herbal medicines and recipes from the book “Mthong ba dga’ byad” by Jigmeddanzanjamts and explain them. @*Research methods@#Research methods in ancient textbook, check list, analysis and synthesis methods were used. @*Conclusion@#It was clarified that in the book “Mthong ba dga’ byad” by Jigmeddanzanjamts there are 44 names of herbal medicines and prescriptions of Chinese origin, and some prescriptions are explained. According to these herbal medicines and prescriptions, Mongolian doctors and maarambas used not only Indian Ayurvedic and Tibetan medicines, but also Chinese medicines and prescriptions in their medical care.
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Introduction@#Jigmeddanzanjamts was a person who was born in the east Sonod Land of Shiliin Gol province in Inner Mongolia (presently the East Sonod Khoshuu of Inner Mongolian Autonomy in People’s Republic of China). He has lived at the end of 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. At his childhood age, he has stayed in the Jari Temple (also called the Great Generous Temple) and studied Tibetan language. He was talented in learning Tibetan language. He also deeply studied Buddhist philosophical teachings in The Philosophical lineage temple and obtained Geshe rank which is a kind of scientific scholar’s title. He was renowned by his Temple name as “Jari Geshe”. </br> Besides, this achievement, he was a Tulku and worked as abbot of a temple. It was mentioned at the end of his book called “Joys of Realizers” that “This book was composed by the Tulku Jigmeddanzanjamts the Brave-Hearted King”.@*Materials and methods@#He divided his book into 5 sections and in the first section he provided a detailed description about the urine analysis and diagnostics by sensing pulse of a patient. In the second section, he summarized only the capability of 348 types of medicines. In the third section, he classified various diseases into 80 categories and determined specific methods for curing each disease such as internal disease, bacteria, diseases of the womb and internal organs such as liver, kidney, lung, heart and spleen, skin disease, gynecopathy, childhood disease, other injuries. In the fourth section, he wrote about how to reduce power of 22 types of medicines, and how to substitute 32 types of medicines. In the fifth section, he provided a detailed information about 316 types of prescriptions, and doses of medicine shall be included in each prescription, method for blending those prescriptions. @*Results@#He also included the prescription of medicines used in Chinese hospitals in his book. For example, he mentioned that “Kindly find the Lin or Dan prescription from Chinese hospitals” in his book. The book called “Joys of Realizers” can be considered as a distinguished book from another book by its content and meaning side. In fact, in greatly depends from the author’s wider way of thinking, his enormous practical experience and knowledge.@*Сonclusion@#From this book, it is obviously observable that he always treated each disease, from the point of seeing in a complex rather than seeing only the disease. Especially, the list, which listed organs of a human body as brain, eye, ear, nose, etc. from top to down part have not observed in other books published in the preceding period. Therefore, it can be considered that the book has some new categories that has not introduced before in books have been composed and published before.