Eliot Tokar - Tibetan Medicine

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Tibetan medicine is a classical system of traditional Asian medicine. It resulted from a centuries-old integration of Tibetan, Indian (Ayurvedic), Persian (Unani), Greek (Hellenic) and Chinese medicines. This holistic system of medicine uses behavior/lifestyle modification, dietary therapy, herbs and physical therapies for healing the body and mind. Its goal is to help people both restore health and to maintain wellness.

Eliot Tokar is a traditional Tibetan medicine doctor who has practiced in NYC since 1993. He is one of the first Westerners to have received extensive textual and clinical training in this field of alternative medicine. Eliot accomplished his studies through direct instruction with Tibetan masters. He began his studies in 1983 with Dr. Yeshi Dhonden (former personal physician to H. H. the Dalai Lama), and then from 1986 as an apprentice to Dr. Trogawa Rinpoche (founder, Chagpori Tibetan Medical Institute, WB, India); both of whom were among the co-founders of the Tibetan Medical Institute (Men-Tsee-Khang) in Dharmasala, India. Eliot has also studied clinical aspects of Chinese and Japanese medicine with a diversity of senior clinicians.

Eliot has lectured widely on healthcare at universities, medical colleges and institutions such as Yale Univ., Princeton Univ., NYU, Harvard Medical School, Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Washington Univ. School of Medicine in St. Louis, NY Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the NY Botanical Garden and at the Asia Society (NY). He was the only Western clinician to speak at the first modern International Academic Conference on Tibetan Medicine in 2000 in Lhasa, Tibet, PRC. Eliot has also served as an advisor to organizations such as the American Medical Student Association

Eliot’s work has appeared in American and international journals. His writings and lectures concern the theory and practice of Tibetan medicine, the role of traditional Asian medicine in the context of globalization, as well as topics such as medical pluralism, integrative medicine, mind-body medicine, evidence-based medicine, biopiracy and intellectual property rights. In 2008 his article “An Ancient Medicine in a New World” was featured with the work of many international scholars in “Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World: Global Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice” (pub. Routledge). In 2009 this book was awarded the International Convention of Asia Scholars Colleagues Choice Book Prize Award.

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