Doctor of Tibetan medicine under Nicholas II. Tibetan medicine of the Badmaev brothers cured thousands of hopelessly ill people in Tsarist Russia. Explanation of the properties of medicinal ingredients

Boris KAMOV

ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY YEARS AGO A TYPHUS EPIDEMIC BREAKED IN CHINA. There were no medical means to combat it. Death devastated both the population and the doctors themselves. The epidemic threatened all of Russia. The panic began. Someone advised the governor, Count Muravyov-Amursky, to seek help from a Buryat healer named Petr Badmaev: they say that from childhood he studied the medical science of Tibet, treated both people and livestock and enjoyed “great fame in Transbaikalia.”

They found Badmaev. He agreed to help and in twenty days eliminated the epidemic by distributing bags of some kind of powder.

The healer was summoned to the capital and introduced to Alexander II. They baptized him and named him Alexander Alexandrovich. The king said: “I will reward you with everything you want.” I thought Badmaev would ask for an order or money. And he asked... a hospital - so that he could treat according to his own method, and the shoulder straps of a military doctor - so that his medical colleagues would not be humiliated. The courtiers were amazed and even outraged by the request. And Alexander II ordered: “Let him show what he can.”

Badmaev was given a room in the Nikolaev hospital. They placed in it those suffering from syphilis, tuberculosis and cancer - all in the last stage. Doctors watched the treatment with passion. All patients recovered. The “Capital Miracle” was more shocking than the Chita one. For this unprecedented medical feat, the government “asked the Sovereign Emperor for an unprecedented reward for a man who spoke Russian poorly... comparing him with military doctors who had received higher medical education”: Badmaev was allowed to receive patients at home and open a pharmacy of oriental medicines .

A lexander Alexandrovich did not yet know that on the day of his unprecedented triumph he was cursed by his capital colleagues along with all Tibetan medicine. And this curse has not lost its destructive power to this day...

The medical science of Tibet has absorbed the best achievements of world oriental medicine. Its main manual, Zhud-Shi, contains sections on embryology, anatomy, physiology, pathology, diagnostics, hygiene, pharmacognosy, pharmacology, surgery and much more.

It is based on an energy theory discovered by yogis: all life on Earth depends on the universal life force received from the Sun. Energy enters the human body through a system of channels (a diagram today can be found in any acupuncture manual) and accumulates in special centers - chakras. If energy enters the body without interruption, the person is healthy. If there is a deficiency or excess of it, the person gets sick.

In this regard, the work of a doctor of the Eastern school consisted of two actions: to find out in which part of the body (organ, system) the energy failure occurred, and to select a method or means to eliminate the deficiency or excess.

Hindu yoga therapists diagnosed using the “third eye”. This is a vestigial organ, the so-called pineal gland. It is located in the frontal part of the brain, above the bridge of the nose. Slightly larger than a wheat grain. Everyone has this gland, and it can be developed with the help of breathing exercises.

Diagnosis using the “third eye” was based on the simplest mechanisms. The diseased area or diseased organ is darker than healthy ones and has a different electrical charge than healthy tissue. This difference is detected by the pineal gland. It works as a sensitive electronic sensor.

And Tibetan doctors made a diagnosis by listening to the patient’s pulse. Here the role of the pineal gland was played by the nerve endings in the fingertips. They read information about the state of the body by how the blood moves through the vessels. It was necessary to have time to obtain information in the pause between heartbeats.

Trained in the craft from the age of four, healers easily grasped the nuances of blood flow. It could be hot, warm, cold; strong, average, weak; round, square, flat or helical; rhythmic, chaotic, with disturbed rhythm, having a repeating melody. The flow could be calm, piercing or cutting - several hundred shades. The combination of shades gave a complete picture of the state of the body.

Doctors of the past discovered the ability of blood to be a reliable bank and transmitter of information. It was stored on a liquid moving medium and covered all episodes of the patient’s life, starting from the moment of birth. Modern scientists have only recently discovered the much weaker information properties of pure, still water.

There was no mysticism in pulse diagnostics, as well as in the use of the “third eye”. It was normal physiology - the use of the hidden capabilities of the doctor’s hands and brain.

Alexander II

In terms of their ability for supersensible perception, pianists and painters are closest to the healers of the Eastern school. It is known, for example, that artists are able to distinguish up to forty shades only black color.

The attempts of some European scientists to use the healing agents of Eastern medicine, discarding the energy theory, were equivalent in their futility to efforts to master higher mathematics without knowledge of the four rules of arithmetic.

There is evidence that Tibetan doctors who were in the army of Genghis Khan saved soldiers with a penetrating wound to the heart from death right in the field. This was more than four hundred years before the discovery of the circulatory system by the European William Harvey and 750 years before the start of sensational open-heart operations... Today's surgeons will be interested to know that Buddhist monasteries preserve ancient instruments for removing spinal cord tumors without damaging the vertebrae.

Even in ancient times, Tibetan medicine comprehended many of the secrets of embryology, which made it possible to produce healthy offspring for thousands of years. Tibetan lamas knew about the existence of microbes more than a thousand years before the great Pasteur and possessed reliable means of combating eighteen pathogens of infectious diseases. Among them are plague, cholera, smallpox, tuberculosis, diphtheria, malaria, syphilis, rabies, measles, typhoid fever and others.

Remedies from the pharmacy of the times of Genghis Khan could still be used today, because a range of infectious diseases, including plague, cholera and the long-known AIDS, threaten us even now.

How did Tibetan doctors end up in Russia?

At the beginning of the 18th century, lamas, engaged in missionary activities, settled on the outskirts of Russia - in Buryatia, where the local population mostly professed Buddhism. Schools were opened at Buddhist temples. The most capable boys were trained as lamas-healers.

Russia at that time did not have its own certified physicians. The kings were treated by foreigners. At best, these were third-rate specialists. In 1703, Peter I ordered the opening of a hospital school. She trained junior medical staff. And only in 1764 a medical faculty was opened at Moscow University. And by this time the Buryat lamas had already nurtured more than one hundred doctors in saffron robes. The best of them went on internships to India and Tibet. They returned crowned with the title “head of medicine,” which corresponded to the rank of academician.

Missionary schools of Tibetan lamas in Buryatia existed until the beginning of the twentieth century. But if the “Chita miracle” had not happened in 1861, we might not have known about their existence at all.

However, let's return to Badmaev. Having received permission to treat the sick, he called his younger brother to help him. Emperor Alexander III became Peter Alexandrovich's godfather.

Having a diploma as a lama doctor, Petr Badmaev, without interrupting his private practice, he graduated from the Faculty of Oriental Languages ​​at St. Petersburg University and, as a volunteer, from the Imperial Medical-Surgical Academy. As Pyotr Alexandrovich later wrote, for half a century he and his brother healed “those patients whose ailments could not be treated with European medicine.”

The following figures indicate the capabilities of a doctor of the Tibetan school. After the death of his older brother, Peter worked alone from 1873 to 1910. Over 37 years, he received 573,856 patients in his office, which was confirmed by registration books. This is more than 16 thousand patients a year. About fifty people a day. According to the testimony of Boris Gusev, the grandson of the great doctor, his grandfather’s working day lasted 16 hours. Until his death, he worked without days off, holidays and vacations.

According to surviving documents, out of more than half a million patients cured by Pyotr Badmaev, more than one hundred thousand were classified as incurable, that is, hopeless. Badmaev made the diagnosis based on his pulse. This procedure lasted no more than a minute. The patient received a ticket with the numbers of the powders, which he purchased at the pharmacy located in the same building. Badmaev’s patients were given free of charge and sold at the pharmacy 8,140,276 powders. The worker paid 1 ruble for the visit, gentlemen - up to 25 rubles in gold.

Petr Badmaev had the rank of general and the highest orders of the Russian Empire, was in confidential correspondence with Nicholas II, with whom he was friends in his youth. He was invited to consultations at the Winter Palace. All the nobility were treated by him - but he could only engage in private practice.

In 1910, Badmaev turned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was also in charge of healthcare, with a request to allow:

1. Organize a society in St. Petersburg that promotes the speedy research of the medical science of Tibet.

2. To call graduates of medical schools who have mastered the medical science of Tibet doctors of Tibetan medicine, and give them the right to treat according to this system.

3. Open a public pharmacy for Tibetan medicine, where each drug will be sold at a price of 10 kopecks per serving, with the cost of treatment being 1 ruble. 40 kopecks

4. Open a Clinic of Tibetan Medicine (Badmaev himself undertook to maintain it, allocating 50,000 rubles in gold annually).

5. To train specialists in Tibetan medicine from among young certified doctors.

In exchange for this, Badmaev promised to reveal the secrets of Tibetan recipes, kept for centuries.

The Medical Council at the Ministry of Internal Affairs rejected him on all counts. The professor, who did not have the slightest idea about the subject under consideration, concluded that “Tibetan medicine ... is nothing more than an interweaving of rudimentary archaic science with ignorance and superstition.” The letterhead of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is dated and numbered, but there is not a single signature of the Council members. This was the first organized attack by the Russian medical “mafia”. “It’s better to let the sick die,” the members of the Council thought, “than to treat them according to the Tibetan method.”

In 1915, the condition deteriorated sharply health of the heir to the throne, Tsarevich Alexei. He suffered from hemophilia. Professor Fedorov and surgeon Derevyanko, Alexei’s personal doctors, were unable to stop the next bleeding. They warned the king that the boy would die soon.

Having learned about this, Pyotr Alexandrovich rushed to the palace, but... he was not allowed in. Badmaev was called for help as soon as the king’s daughters fell ill. But the palace doctors never let him near Alexei. Then he demanded that medicine for Alexei be given to the empress. They were not handed over. The doctors explained to Alexandra Fedorovna that the composition of the medicines brought by Badmaev was unknown to real medical science and they feared that the doctor might poison the boy.

“Horror seized me when I read this evening the bulletin about the state of health of the sovereign heir,” Badmaev wrote to Alexandra Fedorovna. “With tears, I beg you to give these medicines to the sovereign heir for three days.” I am convinced that after three cups of decoction taken internally and one cup of decoction for a compress outside, the condition of the sovereign heir will improve...”

Knowing about the slander that doctors spread about him, Badmaev continued: “You can be convinced that there are no poisons in these medicines by drinking three cups of decoction in a row.” And he explained, hinting at the court doctors: “And Europe has no remedies against external and internal bruises, except ice, iodine, massage, especially in acute cases with high fever.”

The court doctors did not give the powders sent by Badmaev even after the letter. They did not prepare any lotions based on Tibetan powders. For these doctors, the trade interests turned out to be higher than the interests of the patient. Fedorov and Derevianko only changed Alexey, who was bleeding, tampons and bandages. Death should have occurred from blood loss. Blood transfusion was still unknown at that time. But from Peter Alexandrovich’s letter, the Empress realized that there was a chance to save the child, and secretly sent for Rasputin.

In the struggle that took place around the heir, the power of the medical mafia turned out to be stronger than the power of the tsar.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, European specialists knew the only way to fight a malignant tumor - a knife. And Badmaev’s patient with any stage of this disease took two powders a day. Each powder cost 10 kopecks. Treatment (outpatient!) lasted from 2 to 8 months. A person recovered by paying from 12 to 48 rubles. The monthly salary of a medium-skilled worker was then about 30 rubles.

The drug Mugbo-yulzhal No. 115, which Badmaev used, did not destroy malignant cells, but activated the body’s defenses. The tumor was resolving. At the same time, the patient did not feel sick, did not lose his appetite, did not experience constipation or urinary retention, did not deteriorate the composition of the blood, and did not require multiple infusions. Hair didn't fall out. There was no physical or nervous exhaustion. The emotional sphere did not narrow. Sexuality was not repressed. There was no pain. Powders excluded the occurrence of metastases.

The decision of the members of the Medical Council (who did not even give their names) to refuse to use Tibetan medicine doomed millions of people in Russia and abroad to meaningless suffering, disability, and death. It is impossible to count how many such senseless tragedies there have been over the past decades.

Proposing to legalize Tibetan medicine in Russia, Pyotr Badmaev wrote: “A happy time will come - and everything developed by the medical science of Tibet will become the property of everyone. Only then will doctors occupy the high position that rightfully belongs to them in the cultural world... And the sick will not burden the State...” So far, everything is the other way around.

What was the level of general therapy at that time? In 1922, Vladimir Lenin fell ill. He was treated by the most famous doctors in Russia and abroad (nowadays their names don’t tell us anything). I counted seventeen professors who used the head of state. The Red Army then wore bast shoes. And foreign luminaries were paid in Soviet chervonets, which were exchanged for gold and were quoted higher than the then dollar.

In front of me is a book by Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Yu.M. Lopukhin "Lenin: truth and myths about illness, death and embalming." The monograph is based on secret documents. It gives an idea of ​​how a man of good health, capable of participating in forty (!) meetings a day and receiving up to seventy (!) people a day on the most complex issues, with the help of professors, moved in a short time from the Kremlin to the mausoleum.

Over the course of two and a half years, a synclite of seventeen geniuses of European medicine gave the leader three mutually exclusive diagnoses: neurasthenia (overwork); chronic lead poisoning (two tiny bullets from F. Kaplan's pistol remained in his body); scandalous, world-famous “syphilis of the brain.” Along the way, when Lenin began to experience cerebral phenomena, and at the same time drug poisoning, the nature of which no one recognized either, he was given a fourth diagnosis - gastritis.

Due to “lead poisoning,” the half-dead Lenin underwent a serious operation, which they did not dare to carry out in 1918, when the head of state was much healthier. To eliminate “syphilis of the brain,” he underwent a massive course of treatment with “arsenic and iodine compounds.” And yet, “taking into account the severity of the symptoms... mercury treatment in the form of rubbing,” Lenin received monstrous doses of mercury, which led to poisoning of the brain, liver and kidneys. Due to a sharp deterioration in health, the rubbing had to be cancelled.

And during the autopsy it turned out that all four diagnoses were “medical error.” The real diagnosis was simple as a student: “widespread atherosclerosis of blood vessels due to their premature wear.”

For a Tibetan physician, even of an average level, such a mistake was impossible. How impossible it is for a normal person to drink kerosene instead of water. I'm not talking about the fact that Tibetan medical science, unlike European medicine, had medicines against sclerosis.

How could the flower of European medicine go so wrong? Academician Lopukhin explains: “In medicine, there are situations when treatment is carried out at random, blindly, for an incomprehensible or unsolved cause of the disease... In the case of Lenin... this was so.”

History loves paradoxes. One of them is that the Russian “throne” was inherited not by Alyosha Romanov, but by the Bolshevik Vladimir Ulyanov. However, having fallen ill, he found himself in Alyosha’s position, because medical morals remained the same under the Soviet system.

I will tell you an episode that, unfortunately, did not make it into Academician Lopukhin’s excellent book.

As in the case of Alexei, there was a real chance of saving Lenin. The eighteenth consultant I knew at Ilyich’s bedside was the Russian doctor Zalmanov. Based on the experience of traditional healers, Zalmanov developed a treatment method called capillary therapy. These were hot turpentine baths. They dilated and cleansed blood vessels. During and after the procedure, a powerful pumping of blood occurred in the patient’s body.

In the situation with Lenin, this was the only remedy that could really help. There is reason to think: the turpentine baths even made him feel better, because Zalmanov... was driven away. Not to the wilderness, not to Saratov, but to Paris - so that he would not be able to return and treat “dear Ilyich.” In Paris, the exile opened a clinic and became incredibly famous and rich. On the banks of the Seine, Zalmanov also wrote his bestseller “The Secret Wisdom of the Body.”

Doctors’ hatred of unconventional methods of treatment has cost Russia and Europe dearly. If Lenin had received qualified medical care when his illness was just beginning (and it developed gradually, and “professional intelligence,” according to Lopukhin, remained with him “until the last final stage”), Lenin could have remained in active politics for several more years .

Let's return to Pyotr Badmaev again. His life after the Aurora salvo took place at three points: his home, his doctor’s office in Petrograd, and the basements of PetroChK. From time to time, Badmaev was released from the basements, only to be imprisoned again soon. There is only one accusation: “Why did you treat the royal family?” He answered: “I am an internationalist by profession. I have treated persons of all nations, all classes and... parties.” The great doctor died from humiliation and hardship in 1920. A few months before his death, in a letter from his cell to the chairman of PetroChka, Medved, Badmaev wrote that he was 109 years old. In reality it was probably less.

The misfortunes of the Badmaev family did not end with this tragedy.

In the early 1970s in Leningrad, I met Doctor of Medical Sciences Kirill Nikolaevich Badmaev, the son of Nikolai Nikolaevich, nephew of Pyotr Aleksandrovich Badmaev.

Nikolai Nikolaevich studied Tibetan medical science from childhood. In St. Petersburg, according to family tradition, he graduated from the Military Medical Academy. During the Civil War he was a surgeon in the Red Army. Lived in Leningrad. He was a consultant to the “Kremlin”, treated Bukharin, Voroshilov, Kuibyshev, Gorky, Alexei Tolstoy. Like his uncle, he dreamed of opening a Tibetan medicine clinic.

In 1937, such a decision was made. Nikolai Badmaev was appointed head of the clinic. And a day after the publication of the message about this event, Badmaev was arrested. No one ever saw him again. But even in this tragic story, “ears in a white coat” stick out.

The arrest of Nikolai Nikolaevich was accompanied by interesting details. The family remained to live in the same apartment. The sons were not expelled from the Komsomol and from the medical institute. There was no search; the archive with priceless recipes and techniques remained untouched.

There was probably a denunciation, but not a political one, but rather a professional one. Badmaev was accused not of treason, but of violating the rules, for example, of using medications that were not included in the official state register. I even admit that the informers did not want Nikolai Badmaev to die, but only wanted to prevent the opening of a new clinic.

Nikolai Nikolaevich's sons became doctors. Two are doctors of science. Only one person devoted himself to Tibetan medicine, Andrei Nikolaevich, whom I also had the chance to meet. But his father did not have time to teach him the art of diagnosis by pulse.

In 1972, I met and became friends with Galdan Lenkhoboevich Lenkhoboev. He was a full member of the Geographical Society of the USSR - for his assistance to Academician A.P. Okladnikov in the discovery of famous rock paintings; member of the Union of Artists of the USSR - for unique stone sculptures that were exhibited at international exhibitions. Lenkhoboev was an honored inventor of the RSFSR - for more than four hundred inventions and improvements, and at the same time worked for more than forty years molder in a foundry.

Living in Buryatia, Lenkhoboev was taken to a monastery at the age of four. There, 16 hours a day, he studied the art of healing. His artist's hands were ideal for pulse diagnostics. When the war with the gods began after the revolution, all the Buddhist temples of Buryatia were blown up. Lama healers were shot with machine guns. The boy Galdan was hidden and then secretly hired as a molder at a factory. Only after retiring did Lenkhoboev allow himself to engage in the main work of his life - treatment with Tibetan medicine. He remembered all the lessons he learned as a child.

People flocked to him from the far corners of Buryatia. There were days when he received up to four hundred people. This was possible because the diagnosis took him 10–15 seconds and was always very accurate: I spent hours watching him work and interviewing dozens of people. There were no errors in diagnoses. And then the doctor’s assistants gave the patients numbered powders.

The Buryat regional committee soon closed this individual labor activity. However, the regional committee members themselves continued to be treated by Lenkhoboev (I am a witness to this). From them they learned about the Tibetan physician in Moscow. Lenkhoboev began to be summoned to the Kremlin. I saw his business cards from Marshals G.K. Zhukov and R.Ya. Malinovsky, general designer A.S. Yakovlev and others. Literary and artistic Moscow also received treatment from him.

When they began to press Lenkhoboev especially hard in Buryatia, I volunteered to go from Literaturnaya Gazeta to Ulan-Ude, I wanted to prepare an essay about the possibilities of Tibetan medicine and thereby protect the doctor. The regional committee refused to endorse the essay, and then the Central Committee - in the very department that regularly called Lenkhoboev for consultations.

Like Petr Badmaev Lenkhoboev wanted to open a clinic at his own expense and dreamed of students with medical diplomas. On all counts there was a decisive refusal. Galdan Lenkhoboevich died at the age of 82 from a spinal injury...

One day I asked him why he didn’t save Zhukov and Malinovsky.

“They called me very late,” he answered. “The doctors waited until the last minute. When I was invited to Zhukov for the first time, I helped him. He gave me a business card with all the phone numbers: call me, he said, if you need it. And the second time I arrived when nothing could be done. The same with Malinovsky.

I'll tell you another story. It happened in Ulan-Ude before my eyes. The head of the science department came from the regional committee to Lenkhoboev’s apartment.

- Galdan, dear! A telegram came from Moscow, from the Union of Composers, to our composers. He is seriously ill... now I’ll tell you who: Shos-ta-ko-vich. Hero of Labor. They ask you to treat him.

- Fine. Let him go.

- How is it going? We have already answered that you cannot accept it: you are very busy...

I intervened:

– Why don’t you allow Shostakovich to come? He's very sick.

The head of the department, without hesitation, beckoned me with his hand and whispered loudly: “What if he dies here from Galdan’s powders? Who will be responsible? After all, the Hero of Labor."

And Shostakovich soon died.

Explanation of the properties of medicinal ingredients

From a modern Tibetan herbalist by Karma Choipele (“A Beautiful Necklace of Jewels or an Explanation of the Properties of Medicinal Ingredients”), commonly known as “A Collection of Medicinal Plants in Tibetan Medicine,” we provide two examples of how modern Tibetan doctors describe medicinal raw materials for of their multicomponent drugs.

We chose cloves and ginger. The book, of course, is of great interest and in the future it will all be translated. Here it is worth paying attention to the fact that the Tibetan author, a doctor, does not provide a chemical analysis of the composition of plants, which is typical for European scientific medicine, although he gives Latin names according to the classification adopted by C. Linnaeus.

It is also believed that the whole plant as a whole has a healing effect, and not just the chemical agents extracted from it (flavonoids, coumarins, tannins, etc.)

CARNATION

Chinese name: Ting-shang

Latin name: Eugenia Caryophyllata

Species: Clove family.

Appearance: From the essay “Explaining Difficult Places [to Understand]”: There are two types: cloves and wild pears [in Tibetan, cloves are “lishi” and wild pears are “lizhi” (Chinese)]. It is said that it is similar in origin to nutmeg. The essence of the differences is that there are cloves and wild pears. [Clove] grains are large and coarse (thick). Those brought from other [places] are [more] subtle in comparison.”

From the essay “Interpretation of Words”: “There is no difference between “lishi” and “lashi”. Oily [fruits], without shell, whitish in color and soft, similar to those already studied, these are called “lashi”.

The essay “Blue Sapphire” says that it [the carnation] comes from overseas, from the country of non-humans (mi-ma yin). The way in which it came to us (in Tibet) is unknown. Nothing is said about the origin of the plant itself. In essence, there are two types of [cloves]: one similar in shape to a jug, large, and another, similar to a copper nail... small. Thus, this perennial (with many leaves) tree is medicinal.

In ancient times, a large number of medicines were imported into India from other countries, but not all of them were classified according to their origin, there was no clear methodology for this, and only a small part was traced. As for the clove, it is known that it is a tree with a dark brown a medium-sized trunk, with a large number of individual branches and branches growing straight. The leaves are thick, bluish-green, oily and soft, reminiscent in shape of the leaves of the balu plant (rhododendron), but in comparison they are larger, have smooth edges and a shorter stem. They grow unpaired. The flowers are yellowish, with five petals and yellow stamens, forming inflorescences between the leaves (grow in clusters). Large fruits are shaped like a jug, small fruits are shaped like short cloves, and both have a pleasant smell.

Place of birth (origin): Lho-brag Marpa-lotsawa (1012-1999, translator), during his stay in India, in Vajrasana, came across the [famous relic] Tooth of the Victorious [Buddha], which was wrapped in a palm leaf and red silk. A letter was written on a sheet of cinnabar. None of the scholars could read it, and only one who knew the Sinhala language said that this letter was South Sinhala or from the City of Rakshas on the island
Lanka. She got here with great difficulty and a dangerous sea route. And all the mountains on that island are covered with thickets of clove trees, herds of elephants are found there in abundance, and women are like lotus flowers. That country is perfect and happy, the lands are full of various treasures, and the waters are full of pearls.

This is what is written in the “History of Liberation (namtar or biography)” of [the great] Lotsawa, and there is no equally plausible story like this. It is said that when Siddha Orjanpa was in the country of Uddiyana [present-day territory of Afghanistan], there the clove was called “the clove from the city of Rakshas from the island of Lanka.”

Among the “six good ones” he has no pair (equals).

Taste after digestion: The taste is pungent, astringent, bitter. After digestion it is bitter.

Action: Oily-strengthening and warm-softening.

Benefit: Useful for diseases of the central channel (srog-jin); liver diseases in men; internal fire disorders; loss of appetite; cold wind and shortness of breath (asthma).

"Carnation - 6": cloves; tabashir; licorice; gentian; costus; myrobalan. If you add grapes to this; saffron; feed round; cinnamon and pomegranate, then it will be “Cloves - 11”. From the essay “A Beautiful Vessel with Amrita”: “If this powder is washed down with a decoction of Elecampane^, then intractable diseases associated with breathing difficulties [shortness of breath, asthma, bronchitis, etc.] will be cured.”

Chinese name: kan-chang

Latin name: Zingiber officinale

Species: Ginger family.

Appearance: From the work “Crystal rosary (Shel-prang)”: [Ginger] from China and other places has a straw-like stem, a root in the form of tubers, like adiantum (reral), adjacent to one another, 5-6 tubers like bought (to me), with hairs, smells nice. When it dries it becomes hard and very pleasant to look at.

This perennial [plant] is a valuable medicine. The root is ash-colored, similar in shape to kupena, divided into parts, similar to a-ra, not thick, grows in different directions. The inside is slightly yellowish, with hairs, multi-segmented. When dry, it is whitish in color.

The stem is thin and curved, without branches.

The leaves are yellow-green, flat, slightly elongated, pointed, hard. During growth, the lower leaves are wrapped around the trunk.

The flowers are light brown, beak-shaped, orange at the edges, and collected in tiers at the end of the stem.

There are five varieties of ginger: ginger (gray ginger); brown ginger; yellow ginger; red ginger and wild ginger.

Place of birth (growth): The plant grows in moderately clayey soils (khongs rdza yul), at higher elevations (spo yul), grows in the interior of the country (Tibet), and is also well cultivated in other places. Wild ginger grows in forests.

Part used, time of collection and processing: The root is used, it is dug in the fall. The root is cleared of soil, washed, then kneaded, cut into pieces and dried.

Taste after digestion and effect: The taste is pungent and astringent, after digestion it is bitter.

Action: Warming and spicy.

Benefit: Useful for diseases of Mucus and Wind; disturbances of fiery heat; disturbances of Blood; severe leukemia (leukemia); with poor blood circulation in the vessels.

Compositions (in which it is used)"Ginger - 7"; calcite tamed in haynyk milk; Adams rhododendron; costus; snakehead; elecampane; aster flowers; ginger. All this, after appropriate processing, is crushed into powder or rolled into pills. Take with boiled water for indigestion, bloating and distension (bloating, prolapse) of the stomach, heat (heartburn) in the chest, sour belching (or vomiting). In short, for all obvious diseases of the Cold.

Badmaev Petr Aleksandrovich (1851 - 1919) - Buryat; doctor of Tibetan medicine.

He arrived in St. Petersburg in 1871, entered St. Petersburg University, and attended lectures at the Military Medical Academy. In 1875, he served in the Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at the same time began to practice medicine. He played a prominent role in politics and submitted to Alexander III a “Note on the tasks of Russian policy in the Asian East.” Created the trading house “P.A. Badmaev and Co., operating in 1893 - 1897. in Transbaikalia.

In 1909 he organized the “First Transbaikal Mining and Industrial Partnership” to develop gold mines. In 1911 and 1916 together with P.G. Kurlov and G.A. Mantashev came up with railway construction projects in Mongolia.

He supported Bishop Hermogenes and Hieromonk Iliodor in their struggle with Rasputin, then went over to the latter’s side, becoming especially close to him in 1916. In 1914 he was elevated to the dignity of nobility. In August 1917, he was expelled abroad by the Provisional Government, then returned to Petrograd, where he died.

Books (3)

Doctor Badmaev. Tibetan medicine, royal court, Soviet power

Zhamsaran (Petr Aleksandrovich) Badmaev was the only doctor and theoretician of Tibetan medicine in Russia; its activities began in St. Petersburg under Alexander III, who became the godfather of the young Buryat, gained universal fame under the last Tsar Nicholas II and ended under Soviet rule in 1920 - after arrests, prisons and death.

The author of the first part of the book, Badmaev’s grandson, writer Boris Gusev, having documents and a family archive, talks about the life and work of his grandfather. In the second part, Pyotr Alexandrovich himself reveals the secrets of Tibetan medicine.

Fundamentals of medical science in Tibet. Zhud-Shi

"Zhud-Shi" is the main canonical source of Tibetan medicine and its main guide. The amazing book “Zhud-Shi” came to us from a thousand years ago and turned out to be modern.

This is largely explained by the way it was presented in Russian by the famous expert on Tibetan medicine P.A. Badmaev. This book is about how to live in order to be healthy and maintain the freshness of the body and clarity of mind until old age.

And although on the title page of the original P.A. Badmaev set himself up as a translator; in fact, he is the author of the book, since two books of “Zhud-Shi” are given in his interpretation, and the rest of the material was written by him personally. The book also includes a polemical treatise by P.A. Badmaev "Response to unfounded attacks by members of the Medical Council on the medical science of Tibet."

Designed for a wide range of readers, as well as all those interested in the history of science and culture of the East, doctors and pharmacists.

Representatives of this family became the first doctors of Tibetan medicine in St. Petersburg. There was a lot of incomprehensible and mysterious things in their practice, but it gave excellent results.
The most famous representative of this family was Pyotr Alexandrovich Badmaev (1851–1920), but it was his elder brother who started the dynasty.

Sultim (Alexander Alexandrovich) Badmaev came from a family of Transbaikal cattle breeders. At the end of the 50s of the 19th century, he moved to the city on the Neva and openedthe first pharmacy of exotic medicinal herbs. His younger brother Zhamsaran, who called himself a descendant of Genghis Khan, graduated from the Irkutsk gymnasium. In St. Petersburg, both brothers converted to Orthodoxy. So Zhamsaran became Pyotr Alexandrovich. His godfather was the future Emperor Alexander III.

In 1871, Pyotr Badmaev entered the Eastern Faculty of St. Petersburg University and at the same time began to study at the Medical-Surgical Academy. Having graduated from both educational institutions, this “son of the Buryat steppes” became one of the most highly educated people of his time. Since 1875, Pyotr Badmaev has served in Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He makes official trips to China, Mongolia, Tibet, carries out various responsible assignments related to strengthening Russia’s influence in this region.

It was through his efforts that it was arranged unofficial visit of the Dalai Lama to St. Petersburg and his meeting with the Russian Emperor. And this high meeting took place after Badmaev submitted to the highest name a “Note on the tasks of Russian policy in the Asian East.” The author predicted how events would develop in this region in the next decade. Badmaev’s proposals consisted of the peaceful annexation of Mongolia, Tibet and China to Russia. The internal logic of the idea is as follows: if Russia doesn’t take it, the British will take it... Pyotr Aleksandrovich believed that strengthening Russia’s influence in the East should go through trade.

After retiring, he devoted himself entirely to medical practice. At the turn of the century, Pyotr Badmaev was known in the capital not only as one of the most successful practicing doctors, but also very influential person, since among his patients there were many representatives of high society and even the imperial family.

With the light hand of Valentin Pikul, in Soviet times, Badmaev gained a reputation as a political intriguer from Rasputin’s inner circle. Then this negative image migrated to Elem Klimov’s film “Agony”, the basis of the script of which was Pikul's novel "Evil Spirit". Many researchers have noted that Pikul’s historical novels (although based on archival documents) suffer from many inaccuracies and errors.

Probably, the real Badmaev bore little resemblance to the character created in the novel. In Pikul, he is presented as a medical charlatan, in whose hospital on Poklonnaya Hill, in the intervals between procedures, the fate of the Russian Empire is decided. It seems that a certain “artistic exaggeration” was allowed here. But the fact that Rasputin was one of Badmaev’s regular patients and that it was in his domain that the “holy devil” often met with ministers, courtiers and bankers are undeniable facts. We cannot judge to what extent Badmaev himself was involved in political intrigues. No documents about this have survived.

But archival documents addressed to the Badmaevs to the highest officials of the empire have been preserved and have now been published. He never tired of convincing them of the need strengthening Russian influence in the East. Badmaev’s economic projects are also known, which he proposed as the basis for this influence. He organized Transbaikal Mining Partnership. Badmaev paid a lot of attention railway construction, insisting on creating a branch from Semipalatinsk to the border with Mongolia and beyond. In St. Petersburg, he founded a private gymnasium for children from Buryatia. Badmaev’s projects affected not only Siberia and the Far East. A few days before the fall of the monarchy, he submitted a memo to Nicholas II on the need to develop the Murmansk port and continue the construction of the railway. These plans were implemented already in Soviet times. Their vital necessity for the country was confirmed during the Great Patriotic War, when military cargo from overseas went to Russia through Murmansk.

Pyotr Aleksandrovich Badmaev himself briefly survived the empire. By decision of the Provisional Government he was deported to Finland, but soon returns to Petrograd again. Under Soviet rule Badmaev tried to return to medical practice, but unsuccessfully. The Cheka arrested him several times, but no serious charges were ever brought against him. He died in his bed in 1920.

With the beginning of perestroika, the unequivocally negative assessment of Badmaev’s personality begins to gradually change. Previously unknown documents and evidence become public. It is clear that the greatest interest in the Badmaev heritage was and still is shown in Buryatia.

In 2006, the 155th anniversary of the birth of Pyotr Aleksandrovich Badmaev was solemnly celebrated in Ulan-Ude. His numerous descendants and followers have gathered in the National Library of the Republic, where a lot of work is being done to study Badmaev’s heritage. Many of them continue to practice Tibetan medicine. The most famous is the great-nephew of Pyotr Badmaev, Doctor Vladimir Badmaev. He represents the fourth generation of this medical dynasty and continues to try to find the optimal combination of the principles of traditional Western medicine with the practice of Tibetan healing.

At the meeting, a film was shown about the life and work of Pyotr Badmaev, filmed by his granddaughter Zinaida Dagbaeva. Also among the relatives was the great-granddaughter of Pyotr Badmaev, Olga Vishnevskaya, who lives in St. Petersburg. Many descendants of Pyotr Badmaev live in Buryatia. On their initiative, a foundation was created in his name.

Material taken from the site http://www.utrospb.ru/

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P. A. Badmaev

ABOUT Petr Aleksandrovich Badmaev little is known. In the first years of Soviet power, the works, and even the very name of this man, were banned, his followers, doctors and oriental scientists were repressed. That’s why today many people remember P. Badmaev only from the film “Agony” directed by Elem Klimov, where his image is depicted in a very distorted way. The famous doctor and outstanding diagnostician is shown in the film as an insidious Mongol weaving palace intrigues.

M. Zhukovsky, Portrait of Doctor P. A. Badmaev, 1880 State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg)

Pyotr Alexandrovich, his childhood name was Zhamsaran, was born in Transbaikalia around 1851. However, this date requires clarification. He was the seventh and youngest son of Zasogol Batma, a wealthy Mongol herder who was descended from Dobo Mergen, the father of Genghis Khan. The family lived in a six-walled yurt and roamed the dry Aginsk steppe. As a boy, Zhamsaran tended sheep and was very proud that he was doing an honorable and necessary job.

But Batma’s family was known in Transbaikalia thanks not only to a distant noble ancestor, but also to the merits of Batma’s eldest son. Sultim ( Alexander Alexandrovich Badmaev) was Emchi Lama, that is, a doctor of Tibetan medicine.

In those years, an epidemic of typhoid fever broke out near Chita. There were no official medical means to combat this terrible disease. “The Bony One with the Scythe” took hundreds of people to her monastery every day. The epidemic could become a real threat to all of Russia. Panic began among the population.

And then someone recommended that Count N.G. Muravyov-Amursky find the healer Sultim Badmaev and turn to him for help. Since childhood, he studied the medical science of Tibet, successfully cured people and livestock from all diseases, therefore he enjoyed great respect and fame in Transbaikalia.

Sultima was soon found. He agreed to help and in 20 days he eliminated the terrible disease, distributing bags of some kind of powder to people.

On the recommendation of Count N.N. Muravyov-Amursky, the healer was invited to St. Petersburg, where he was introduced to Alexander II. Here he was christened and named Alexander Alexandrovich. The monarch commanded: “I will reward you with everything you want.” He thought that the Buryats would ask for money or an order. But Sultim wanted to have a hospital where he could treat patients using his own method, and the uniform of a military doctor.

The request was so extraordinary that it amazed many of the king’s associates. But the sovereign did not go back on his word and commanded: “Let him show what he can.”

At the Nikolaev hospital, Sultim was given a room. It housed seriously ill patients with syphilis (all in the last stage), tuberculosis and cancer. The treatment was scrupulously observed by certified physicians. And again a real miracle happened - all the sufferers recovered!

Tibetan medicines

The Medical Department of the War Ministry awarded Badmaev a rank with the right to wear a military uniform and, in official terms, to enjoy the rights assigned to military doctors. In addition, he was allowed to receive patients at home and open a pharmacy of oriental medicines.

But Alexander Badmaev needs an assistant like air, and he asks his parents to let his younger brother go to St. Petersburg. By that time, Zhamsaran had already graduated from the Irkutsk Russian Classical Gymnasium with a gold medal. The parents accompanied the young man to the capital.

Once in the city of Peter, the young man immediately entered the Faculty of Oriental Languages ​​at St. Petersburg University and, as a volunteer with the right to take exams, began attending lectures at the Imperial Medical-Surgical Academy.

Having completed his studies, Pyotr Badmaev entered service in the Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. By that time, he had already converted to Orthodoxy, taking the name Peter in honor of Peter the Great, and his patronymic after the name of the heir to the crown prince, the future Tsar Alexander III.

But pretty soon Alexander Badmaev dies, and his entire household - pharmacy and practice - passes to his younger brother, Zhamsaran.

In the 1870s, Pyotr Alexandrovich, due to his occupation, repeatedly visited China, Mongolia, and Tibet, where he carried out various assignments related to strengthening Russia’s sphere of influence in this region. In addition, in Tibet he also improved his knowledge of Tibetan medicine, received from his brother.

Pyotr Badmaev was engaged in treatment from 1875 until the end of his life.

In 1893, he received the rank of general and actual state councilor, and a year after the death of Alexander III, he resigned and devoted himself entirely to Tibetan medicine.

From 1837 to 1910, Pyotr Badmaev worked alone. Over 37 years, he received 573,856 patients in his office, which is confirmed by documents. The figure itself is incredible - more than 16 thousand patients per year. Until his death, the Tibetan doctor worked without weekends, holidays and vacations. His working day lasted 16 hours, but was structured very wisely. The doctor developed the habit of falling asleep for 7-10 minutes after 3-4 hours of work. Perhaps this is where its exceptional performance lies.

By the way, out of more than half a million patients cured by P. Badmaev, more than one hundred thousand (according to documents) were considered hopeless by other doctors.

The Tibetan doctor made the diagnosis based on the pulse. The procedure usually lasted about a minute. The patient then received a coupon with the number of the powders that he bought at the pharmacy in the same building. In total, 8,140,276 powders were given out and sold at the pharmacy to patients who came to Badmaev. For a visit, a worker paid one ruble, wealthy gentlemen - up to 25 rubles in gold.

Among esotericists, information that is difficult to verify is widespread that Badmaev was allegedly a member of the Tibetan mystical society “Green Dragon”. Due to the absence of any official documentation in secret organizations, any arguments for or against this claim are baseless.

Pulse diagnostic technique

The healer received information about the patient's condition by placing the pads of his fingers on the patient's radial artery. It should be noted that mastering pulse diagnostics is an extremely difficult task.

This craft began to be taught at the age of 4, but only in adulthood did the healer acquire the necessary skills and was able to capture many shades of vibration of the blood flow, which could be cold, warm, hot; weak, medium, strong; flat, round, square or helical; rhythmic, disorderly, with a disturbed rhythm, having a repeating melody; calm, cutting or piercing - just a few hundred shades.

In addition, the pauses between heart contractions, that is, between pulse beats, were also “telling”. The whole range of observations provided a complete picture of the state of the human body.

Thus, healers of the distant past established that blood is a bank and transmitter of information that was reliably stored on a moving liquid carrier. There is no mysticism in pulse diagnostics. This is just a union of super-sensory perception of the fingers and the doctor’s brain. By the way, a modern physician working in a clinic examines the pulse using only five indicators: frequency, rhythm, filling, tension, speed.

There were other diagnostic techniques used by Tibetan healers along with pulse diagnostics. Their results seem simply incredible.

If a classical healer is able to detect, for example, a prostate tumor only after a more or less lengthy examination, then a Tibetan doctor can predict its appearance 1-2 years in advance. So he prevents the disease with his medicines and recommendations.

By the way, in the book “Peter Badmaev, godson of the emperor, healer, diplomat”, the grandson of the great doctor Boris Gusev describes how grandfather diagnosed Nicholas II by his pulse:

“They say your science is full of mystery, is that true? - asked the emperor.

“She was surrounded by mystery by those who wanted to hide her from people...

— Do you believe in predictions?

- The disease can be predicted. There is an assumption...

- And fate?

- I don’t know how, Your Majesty.

“Then predict what I’ll get sick with and when,” the emperor said, smiling again.

“I’ll ask for Your Majesty’s hand... No, not a palm, I need a pulse.”

Having felt the pulse in Nikolai’s hand, the grandfather listened to its beating for a long time, about two minutes. Then he said:

— So far, I do not see any symptoms of the disease or signs preceding it. You have the pulse of a healthy person. Do you probably do a lot of physical work outdoors?

- Right! I'm sawing wood. At least two hours a day. I love!"

Writer Boris Gusev (right) is the grandson of the famous doctor, founder of Tibetan medicine in Russia Pyotr Badmaev

In addition to his main work as a medical practitioner, P. Badmaev devoted a lot of time and effort to translating the book “Zhud-Shi” (the fundamentals of medical science in Tibet) into Russian. Immediately after its publication, it aroused widespread interest. However, there were many critical remarks from official medicine, and Badmaev was subjected to real persecution, accused of shamanism, witchcraft and other sins. But the most terrible tests lay ahead for the doctor.

In 1917, he was expelled from Russia by the Provisional Government, but was detained in Helsingfors (now Helsinki) and after a month's imprisonment was returned to Petrograd. He began practicing medicine again, but was arrested several more times by the Cheka.

In 1919, while imprisoned in the Chesme camp (in Petrograd, 5 km from the Narva Gate), P. Badmaev slapped the commandant in the face because he addressed him rudely, using the first name. The boss, naturally, immediately assigned the doctor to a punishment cell for two days, where he stood ankle-deep in icy water.

And then a misfortune happened: the Tibetan healer, who had excellent health, fell ill with typhus. He was placed in the prison infirmary, where his wife E.F. Yuzbashev looked after him. This woman was a faithful assistant for many years and even managed a pharmacy on the estate of P. Badmaev on Poklonnaya Hill. But, despite the serious illness that required care, the doctor, faithful to his medical duty, persuaded his wife to be at Liteiny, 16, where P. Badmaev’s reception room was located during reception hours.

Badmaev with students

In general, Pyotr Badmaev could easily have avoided all the misfortunes that happened to him if he had accepted Japanese citizenship. The doctor received an official notification from the authorities that he could do this - the Japanese ambassador interceded on his behalf. He could freely travel with his family to Japan. But Pyotr Alexandrovich did not want to leave Russia in a difficult hour of testing and categorically rejected the tempting offer.

The famous Tibetan doctor died on July 29, 1920 in his bed. He was buried on a hot day on August 1 at the Shuvalovsky cemetery. Now on his grave there is a white metal cross with the inscription: “The doctor is the founder of Tibetan medicine in Russia, Pyotr Aleksandrovich Badmaev. Died on July 29. 1920".

No date of birth. The grave, judging by its condition, has not been visited by anyone for a long time. Neither the cemetery administration nor the parishioners know anything about her. This is the sad fate of a famous person.

After the revolution, P. A. Badmaev’s work “Zhud-Shi” was not published and was published again only in 1991.

From the book "Phenomena, Mysteries, Hypotheses"