Innovative approaches to exploring Myanmar’s traditional medicines

 

Myanmar produces its traditional medicines and exports to foreign countries and regional countries, according to the Myanmar Traditional Medicine Practitioner Association.

Myanmar’s traditional medicine has been used since the time of ancient kings to the present day, and the new generation should preserve conventional medicines to honour the greatness of ancient traditional medicine practitioners benefiting the country and its people.

Myanmar is rich in herbs and roots at the wildlife sanctuary, national park, and ice-capped mountains, and it can earn foreign income by exporting traditional medicines. Moreover, the herbal plant farmers and producers can make income, and it can reduce the expenses for foreign-made drugs.

The neighbouring countries focus on research and innovation in flora, biomedicine, traditional medicine, and distribution processes. Meanwhile, Myanmar grabs proper economic opportunities by producing Myanmar’s traditional medicines, which are rich in raw materials.

“Myanmar traditional medicine is very effective. It has been used since the time of ancient kings. As the saying goes, let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. The herbal plants are medicinal plants, so traditional medicines possess enormous power. For example, the Indian almond that can be seen everywhere in Yangon can cure cracks in the bone and swollen wounds if we wrap the Indian almond leaves on the wound for six hours. If we rub the liquid of Taunglonkyaw (Min Yaza) on the bruises, they can be cured within a few minutes. The plants, roots and tubers from marine and ice-capped regions are also medicinal plants. They are also rare and useful in producing traditional and foreign medicines. The country produces foreign medicines, and if it produces real traditional medicines as a trial and grabs a firm foreign market, we can see the high export volume of traditional medicine. Therefore, we need to explore more,” said U Soe Paing, an 83-year-old member of the Myanmar Traditional Medicine Practitioner Association.

The country researches 24 types of medicinal plants found in Myanmar’s northernmost part, where the snow-capped mountains and forests are situated. The Cordyceps, taro roots, Gushar and snow louts used in medicines for cancers, heart, lung, kidney, liver and diabetes grow on snow-capped mountains, and plenty of raw materials for traditional medicines can promote Myanmar’s field of traditional medicine.

Thitsa (MNA)/KTZH

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