Baimajiacuo

01 · Lineage & Regional School

Baimajiacuo, Male, Tibetan, from Xiongbalaqushenshuizangyaochang, Tibet, is a third-batch national representative bearer of Tibetan Medicine (Ⅸ-9). The tradition is documented in Xiongbalaqushenshuizangyaochang, Tibet. Within the regional tradition and school record of Tibetan Medicine in Xiongbalaqushenshuizangyaochang, Tibet: Because the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is vast in extent, with high mountains and swift waters, the ethnic and regional characteristics of Tibetan medical culture are relatively pronounced, and the diagnostics, medical techniques, and medicaments of Tibetan medicine often differ by region and by school. In recent decades, with the development of the Tibetan medical enterprise and the wide conduct of academic exchange, the inheritance and advancement of Tibetan medicine have achieved results that have attracted worldwide attention. Its classic work, the Four Medical Tantras, was completed in the second half of the 8th century CE during the Tubo (Tibetan Empire) period, and was written by the famous Tibetan physician Yutuo Yundan Gongbu.

02 · Mastery & Signature Works

He is a national representative bearer of Tibetan Medicine (the compatibility technique of the seventy-flavour coral pill of Tibetan medicine), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He is a chief physician and an expert entitled to the special government allowance of the State Council. He is an outstanding Tibetan medicine expert at the autonomous region level in Tibet. He worked in Tibetan medicine for thirty-eight years and has rich experience in the Tibetan medical treatment of cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and nervous system diseases. In 1996 he took charge of the planning and construction of the Xiongbalhaqu Sacred Water Tibetan Medicine Factory in Tibet and developed the precious Tibetan medicine Coral Seventy-Flavour Pill. Within the documented technical tradition of Tibetan Medicine in Xiongbalaqushenshuizangyaochang, Tibet: Tibetan medicine is an important component of China's traditional medicine and an important representative of the country's ethnic-minority medicines. Tibetan medicine has a long history; it is the medical experience accumulated by the Tibetan people in the special environment of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Tibetan medicine is combined with Tibetan astronomy and calendrical calculation and constitutes a vast and complex medical system. Tibetan medicine takes as its theoretical basis the five-element theory of water, fire, earth, wind, and void and the three-humour theory of rLung (Long), mKhris pa (Tripa), and Bad kan (Beken); it takes as its basic medicaments the plants, animals, minerals, and part of the 'southern medicines' of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau; it adopts modes of practice suited to the plateau environment and to nomadic life; and it has unique curative effects on the common, frequently occurring, and endemic diseases of the oxygen-poor plateau environment. Its health-preserving culture is also receiving ever more attention from the medical world. The Coral Seventy-Flavor Pill is one of the precious Tibetan medicine varieties used in the Tibetan medical treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases; it has the function of comprehensively regulating the body's three factors of rLung (Long), mKhris pa (Tripa), and Bad kan (Beken), keeping the body's internal environment in a healthy and balanced state. The Coral Seventy-Flavor Pill regulates the body's blood circulation and blood pressure as a whole, reduces blood viscosity and blood lipids, frees the collaterals, improves cardiovascular and cerebrovascular spasm and sclerosis, activates damaged nerves, and improves nerve function. It has a certain curative effect in restoring the bodily functions of patients suffering hemiplegia after stroke, and has a comprehensive effect in the treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, being able to prevent and treat, to a certain degree, hypertension, polycythemia, coronary heart disease, ischemic heart disease, and cerebrovascular disease, as well as post-stroke sequelae such as paralysis of the limbs and hemiplegia, and nervous-system diseases of various kinds including neuritis, neurasthenia, neurosis, and functional nerve damage; it has also shown fairly good therapeutic effects on poliomyelitis, epilepsy, and insomnia. In addition, the Coral Seventy-Flavor Pill can raise the immunity of middle-aged and elderly people, improve blood circulation and microcirculation as well as the function of the nervous system, and has a certain health-protective role in the prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The Coral Seventy-Flavor Pill fully demonstrates the advantages and unique curative effects of Tibetan medicine in the treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases; it has become not only a best-selling Tibetan medicine variety sought after by the many patients with such diseases but also one of the preferred clinical medicaments of Tibetan medicine for treating them. Representative repertoire, works and technical entries recorded for the project include: "The composition of Coral Seventy": Developed when the physician founded the works in 1996, it works not on a single organ but on the balance of the three factors within the body. "Balancing wind, bile and phlegm": Wind, bile and phlegm each govern a different system; when they fall out of balance illness follows, so the formula works first to free the channels and regulate the blood. "First choice in cardiovascular disease": Regulating circulation and blood pressure as a whole, thinning the blood and freeing the vessels, it is widely sought after for conditions of the heart and brain. "Use in recovery from stroke": For paralysis and hemiplegia following stroke, it is credited with reviving damaged nerves and restoring function, drawing on the compiler's thirty-eight years of practice.

03 · Transmission & Safeguarding Status

He was male, of the Tibetan ethnic group, born in May 1938 in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, and died in January 2013. He compiled works including Tibetan Mineral Medicines, An Introduction to New Tibetan Medical Formulas, General Principles and Methods of Tibetan Medical Research and The Thirteen Pathological Characteristics and Treatment Principles of the Mub Disease in Tibetan Medicine, and received science and technology progress awards from the Tibet Autonomous Region and Nagqu Prefecture.

04 · Associated Heritage Item Dossier

05 · Fellow National Bearers Lineage

National representative bearers recorded under the same item code, ordered from the first to the sixth batch. Batch order is not a teacher–student relationship.

06 · Archival Sources & Bibliography

1. Baimajiacuo · National Representative Bearer Archive