16 Sep 2007

Bhutan - Institute of Traditional Medical Services (ITMS)
Ministry of Health, Thimphu, Bhutan
Supplied note: "The initial pages of the Institute (ITMS) are at [the URL below] and include brief sections on the National Traditional Medicine Hospital (NTMH), National Institute of Traditional Medicine (NITM), the Pharmaceutical and Research Unit (PRU), Herb, and Medicine. Location maps for the NTMH are included. Herbs (dictionary) is still 'Under Construction'. Under 'Medicines' [temporarily unavailable - ed.], there is a detailed listing (A-Z) of many compounds, with their Dzongkha names, details of dose and administration, indications (for use), ingredient listing of the compound with Latin names, comment on the 'intrinsic nature' of the compound (cool, neutral etc), and reference (usually Traditional Medicine National Formulary second edition). The PRU pages offer a link to Menjong (Sorig) Pharma, the trading arm of the ITMS, at www.menjongpharma.com.bt where details of several products are given. - bcs."
URL http://www.health.gov.bt/Indigenous/07kingdom/07htm/07kingdom.htm
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Brian C. Shaw (bcjshaw--at--hkucc.hku.hk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - NGO - other]: Government
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30