In Tibetan medicine, botanical formulae are often combined with mineral ingredients and are referred to as condensed foods, primarily oriented to treat digestive disorders and then correct specific health conditions.
Tibetan formulae are designed to balance the system through nutritional pathways by matching and balancing disturbed psychosomatic elements to restore well-being. A properly functioning digestive tract transforms the botanical treatment into elemental nutrients, returning body, mind, and spirit to a sustained state of health.
The westward odyssey of Tibetan medicine began in 1851, when Dr. Alexander Badmaev (Sul-Tim Badma) was invited from Buryatia (Lake Baikal) to St. Petersburg, Russia, and established the first Western Tibetan Pharmacy there.
Because of successes with untreatable diseases at the time, such as infectious diseases, Tibetan medicine was well received in St. Petersburg, and Alexander’s younger brother, Dr. Peter Badmaev Sr. (Zhamsaran-Badma), became personal physician to the Russian Czar, Nicholas II, as well as the notable personality, Georgi Rasputin.
In the early 1900s, Dr. Vladimir Badmaev, Sr. (Jamyan-Badma), trained in both Tibetan and Western medicine, joined his uncles in St. Petersburg. When the Bolshevik Revolution forced him to move to Poland, he opened a successful medical practice in Warsaw in the 1920s. He introduced Tibetan massage and specialized herbal formulae from the Tibetan Pharmacy. His patients included several prominent Poles, including Ignacy Moscicki, the last President of the Polish Republic before WWII. He continued translating Tibetan medicine principles for Western audiences. He passed the knowledge on to his son, Peter, who became an MD in the class of 1952 from Lodz Medical Academy, Poland.
In 1965, Dr. Peter Badmaev Jr. emigrated from Poland to Switzerland and eventually to the USA, establishing a medical practice in Jamesport, Long Island, New York. In 1965, Peter Sr. began manufacturing Tibetan formulae in Zurich, Switzerland, according to the family Rx.
In 1981, he was joined in the United States by his son, Vladimir Badmaev Jr., MD, who, in 1985, established Badmaev Natural Drug Foundation and, in 2009, American Medical Holdings Inc. to facilitate promotion of Tibetan concepts of health care and to facilitate the production of formulae based on the longstanding Dr. Badmaev Tradition. Vladimir is a Thomas-Alva Edison award-winning physician, researcher, and author. His lifelong goal is to bring principles of Tibetan medicine and its unique materia medica to the West.