title: [Research and investigation in medicine of Baima Tibetan in Pingwu Sichuan].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate and collect medicinal resources and methods of prevention and treatment of diseases in Baima Tibetan of Pingwu Sichuan in order to rescue and protect the ethenological medicine.
  
  
  METHODS
  Through visiting, field survey in four ethnic townships of Baima Tibetan in Pingwu Sichuan as well as referring literatures to collect information and data analysis of them the investigation was carried out.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The investigation area showed rich medical resources. Rheumatism, stomach disease, pharyngitis and trauma are local common diseases which caused by local climate, diet and life style and so on. The Baima Tibetan are good at using local herb singly and simply to treat disease, using cold water medicine and powder snuffing are their own characters.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is an extremely urgent issue to rescue Baima Tibetan medicine which is disappearing by the influence of the Han nationality culture.
authors.affiliation: Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100102, China. zrs67@126.com
authors.forename: Zhi-Rong
authors.initials: ZR
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Yuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: Yu-Zhao
authors.initials: YZ
authors.lastname: Tao
authors.forename: Yao-Jun
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Hong-Quan
authors.initials: HQ
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Wen-Jie
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D004358:Drug Therapy; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D038861:Medicine, Tibetan Traditional / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D012423:Rural Health / Q000208:ethnology; D018609:Tibet
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal