Beijing, March 1 – China has built its first databank on traditional Tibetan medicine and posted it on the Internet for public use, a report said today.
The databank provides access to information on Tibetan medicine resources, literature, prescriptions, research, production firms and experts.
To date, more than 2,000 categories of plants, 40 animal species and 50 minerals in China have been served as ingredients of Tibetan medicine.
The branch of medicine has turned into the industrial pillar in Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai and Gansu provinces in recent years.
The databank, which will be turned into a separate website in future, could presently be read on the site of the environment science information centre of the Lanzhou Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xinhua news agency reported.
