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mrkumphawapi

11 June 2004 05:30

Chinese Medicine-owner

Me

 

 

It appears that you have already signed me up for the

group. Thank you. I have a deep interest in Folk medicine in general

and in Asian folk medicines in particular. I got involved in this due

to an illness of my own but as I find this subject fascinating in and

of itself I hope to obtain much more from the group and perhaps

contribute from time to time. I have some farmland in Thailand and

grow several medicinal herbs and have discussed the same with various

villagers whose knowledge has been passed down to them for many

generations.

 

Also, Thailand is unique in many ways. About 20 percent

of the population is ethnically Chinese and there are Chinese

medicine shops in every sizable town and city. Thai traditional

medicine as well as Chinese traditional medicine is well accepted and

coexists with western and Indian medicine without conflict. People

recognize that western medicine has it's place as does Thai and

Chinese herbal medicine. In fact the Thai govt. has a

program to test and classify all folk medicine in thier country and

where appropriate use it instead of expensive western drug based

medicine. So far they have classified over 1,000 plants that can be

used directly in place of western drug based medicine.

 

I hope to learn more from the group and perhaps even grow more

medicinals at our farm in Thailand.

 

Thank you very much for your invitation, I look forward to

some good reading and perhaps contributing my own two cents from time

to time.

 

BOB