Page 40 - Proceedings of The Fifth Meeting of Indigenous Medicine in the Mekong Basin

34

VI. Documents and Publications
 Hand book of Traditional Remedies: 3 volumes, containing 1,313 valuable
remedies, 642 remedies under study (not published)
 Bulletins of Lao Traditional Medicine: 8 editions
 Hand book of Lao Traditional Theory
 Some Lao Traditional Remedies for the Elderly
 The Medicine in your garden
 The Medicinal plant
 The Medicinal plants Used for common Diseases in community
 Technique of the preparation of Lao Traditional Medicine
 Medicinal Herbs and plants of Laos: 1 vol., 108 species (English version)
 And many more. . .

VII. ITM survey of Medicinal plants and Herbarium

 Survey of Medicinal plants
Survey has been implemented in 17 provinces throughout
the country 1,508 medicinal plant species belonging to 156
botanical families have been collected and identified.

 Survey of Herbarium
3,034 herbarium specimens of
978 medicinal plant species
have been documented.

Natural Products Information System
From the Year 2000, Natural Products Information System (NAPIS) was established
1, 651 species recorded to NAPIS Database in ITM.

VIII. Searching Traditional Medicine knowledge in communities and temple
 Interviewing traditional medicine healers and monk
 Translating Bali, Sanskrit, and Tham dialects to a common language (Lao)