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Method of Treatment

The methods of treatments have four major sections including diet, behaviour, medicine and accessory/external therapies. Right administration of these four sections is very important for treating a patient in an appropriate manner. Minor ailments can be treated merely with proper regulation of diet and behaviour; a patient with medium disease condition can be treated with medicines such as decoction, powder, pills, purges, emesis, etc.; while patients in advanced stages of disease can be cured by application of accessory/ external therapies like moxa and cauterisation, blood-letting, fomentation, massage, surgery, etc. Buddhist Tantric rituals play a very important role in the treatment of disease. It is a known fact that role of a physician is very important in treatment of a patient; therefore, special emphasis is given on this aspect in this system of medicine.