The old manuscripts which have become National Treasures

[Wisarut]

The old manuscripts which have become National Treasures:


1. Khamphee That Narai (Palm leave manuscripts - published as Osoth Phra Narai - the medica of King Narai the Great) which contain 81 recipes of medicines dated back to King Narai the great

2. Royal Medical Textbooks (2 Volumes) written during the reign of King Chulalongkorn - 713 recipes of medicines for volume 1 and 1066 recipes of medicine for volume 2

Now, we have found 96770 recipes of traditional Thai medicine and 6184 volumes of Thai medical textbooks

http://www.manager.co.th/QOL/ViewNew...=9550000064992
http://www.thairath.co.th/content/edu/263841

[Wisarut]

telling hospitals to purchase the old medical manuscripts before foreign firms hoarding the old medical manuscripts to produce the new medicines while depriving the rights for the local people to gain the access into the modern medicines based on the old medical manuscripts before our own traditional medicine texts will be gone into the hands of foreign firms forever
http://www.manager.co.th/QOL/ViewNew...=9550000068327
http://www.manager.co.th/QOL/ViewNew...=9550000069039

[Wisarut]

More about another National Treasures: Wat Po Inscriptions of Traditional Thai medicines including the pictures of 7 Thai motherly angels to protect babies with animal heads
http://www.oknation.net/blog/supawan/2012/06/12/entry-2