A Tibetan Medicine doctor examines a patient at a Tibetan Medicine hospital in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, one of the cradles of the traditional medicine, in northwest China's Guizhou Province January 7, 2007. Since 1987, more than 1,700 volumes of Tibetan Medicine classics have been salvaged, and 380 new prescriptions have been developed in Gannan.

A Tibetan Medicine doctor prepares medicaments at a Tibetan Medicine hospital in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, one of the cradles of the traditional medicine, in northwest China's Guizhou Province January 7, 2007. Since 1987, more than 1,700 volumes of Tibetan Medicine classics have been salvaged, and 380 new prescriptions have been developed in Gannan.

A Tibetan Medicine doctor prepares medicaments at a Tibetan Medicine hospital in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, one of the cradles of the traditional medicine, in northwest China's Guizhou Province January 7, 2007. Since 1987, more than 1,700 volumes of Tibetan Medicine classics have been salvaged, and 380 new prescriptions have been developed in Gannan.

(Xinhua News Agency January 12, 2007)