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Abstract@#Mongolian traditional medicine is an enormous knowledge that has been battling with long term diseases of Mongolian ancestors by gaining experience, analyzing and learning from foreign medicinal theory and practice for 5000 years. Throughout this long historic evolution Mongolian scholars have published many writings about diagnosis, treatment, medicines and ingredients and among these arised Mongolian traditional medicine theory and practice.</br> The development basis of XXI century traditional medicine are the books and writings of previous doctors, scientists’ knowledge and search through them in depth about practice, medicine especially ingredients and their correlation backgrounds are essential. @*Purpose@#Analyzing additional methods of the prescription included in the “man ngag bdud rtsi zegs ma” written by Khamba Nomun Khan Luvsandanzanjantsan @*Methods@#Methods of check list, textual analysis for ancient books and analysis and synthesis were used in the study. @*Conclusion@#There ara 47 prescription for the addition medicine included in the “man ngag bdud rtsi zegs ma” written by Khamba Nomun Khan Luvsandanzanjantsan. We classified them into 4 categories as supporting medicine, ruling medicine, changed medicine and dominant medicine. </br> The supporting medicines were chosen by doctors’ knowledge and practice. Ruling medicine ingredients are used to elevate the effects on the cause, nature and symptoms of the disease, changed medicine ingredients are used to treat three humors’s disorders and dominant medicine ingredients are used to treat complications.
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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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Abstract@#In recent years, the study of pharmacology and pharmaceutical formulation of traditional Mongolian medicine has been developing significantly. However, there are few research papers on Mongolian pharmacology and development of pharmaceutical formulation written by foreign researchers in ancient times. Therefore, the study was carried out to fill this “gap” and to clarify the ancient works of foreign researchers related to Mongolian pharmacology and development of pharmaceutical formulation.@*Purpose of the study@#To chronologically identify the early works of foreign researchers on the study of pharmacology and pharmaceutical formulation of traditional Mongolian medicine.@*Research method@#Hermeneutic approach, analysis of ancient textbook, and analysis and synthesis methods were used.@*Conclusion@#According to facts and eyewitnesses in the book of Zhouhou Beijifang (Emer- gency Prescriptions) by Ge Hong (261-341) of the Jin Dynasty, Jingui Yaolüe (Essential Prescriptions from the Golden Cabinet) by Chang Ji, the Northern Han Dynasty’s notes on “Xiongnu Doctors Carry Toxic Drugs”, Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīkh (Compendium of Chronicles) by Rashid-ad-Din, William de Rubruck’s “Journey to the Orient”, and book of Plano Carpini, an Italian tourist, the development of pharmacology and pharmaceuticals in traditional Mongolian medicine dates back to the Xiongnu period. Later, in the fourteenth century, it became an independent system of medical knowledge of many nations, as evidenced by the writings of Chinese, Persian, French, and Italian scholars as well as religious envoys.