Researchers discover ways of integrating treatment of traumatised Tibetan refugee monks
Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 08:35
in Health & Medicine
The Boston Centre for Refugee Health and Human Rights (BCRHHR) at Boston Medical Centre recently treated many of the large number of Tibetan refugee monks who fled violent religious persecution. These individuals arrived in Boston suffering from symptoms of traumatic stress, interfering with their meditative practice. The monks were diagnosed by their traditional healers as having srog-rLung, a life-wind imbalance. Recognising that barriers exist between western and eastern medicine, the BCRHHR researched and implemented its own complementary therapy options to heal them. These findings appear online in the March issue of Mental Health, Religion and Culture...