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Subject: 5th International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicine Halle (Saale), 18.-24. August 2002 - Call for papers
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 13:26:46 +0200
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My dear Friends:
I have been given the responsibility to organize a panel in the forth
coming 5th International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicine Halle
(Saale), Germany namely on 'Siddha Medicine'. I took this responsibility
rather late. I feel that it is a nice opportunity for Tamils to talk
about their indigenous medical system in a global arena.
Visit http://www.ictam.de/ get more details on this conference!
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg is situated where the world
famous Francken Archives are preserved. Dr.Mohanavelu of Presidency
College, Chennai describes these archives in his book 'German
Tamilology' http://www.german-tamilology.com as follows:
"In 1706,the first German Protestant missionary named Ziegenbalg came to
Tamilnadu and he introduced rich Tamil cultural heritage to Europeans.
Following this, for 250 years from then on, hundreds of Germans came to
Tamilnadu, as missionaries, travelers, academicians etc., interacted
with the native Tamils in different fields and wrote down in their
diaries, travel accounts, station registers, letters etc. all about the
customs and manners, legends and fables, diseases and medicines, rites
and rituals etc. and on many other indigenous cultural, literary,
medical and socio-economic aspects. There are as many as 200, 000 Mss.
on these topics besides hundreds of Tamil palm-leaves too, now preserved
in the Franckens archives in Halle/Germany.
The Germans from the cold Europe, fell ill in the hot tropical Tamilnadu
for the first time here only and hence they knew nothing about tropical
diseases and corresponding medicines. When they were cured by the native
Tamil Siddha medical doctors, they were surprised at the high level of
indigenous medical knowledge and almost all the Germans wrote down in
hundreds of their diaries about the tropical diseases and Siddha medical
system and sent them all to Germany in ships. A particular German
missionary named Gruendler spent an unbroken period of 11 years,
collecting Tamil medical palmleaves, translating them into German and
sent them all in remarkable haste to Germany by the next available ship.
Those Germans found out to their pleasant surprise, that the Tamil
medical men were experts in diagnosing the diseases by pulse, phlegm,
urine, skin, tongue and eyes tests and prescribed proper medicines. As
many as 4448 diseases - including certain special diseases for men,
women and children were identified."
I think it is time for us to come up and speak high of our Tamil
medicine in Germany once more. In this session we shall talk about
Ancient Medical Manuscripts, The Biochemistry, Clinical Trials,
publication of manuscripts, electronic archiving etc. You are invited
for either a oral or poster presentation. For people who can't make it
to Germany but still interested to present their views and research,
submission of an electronic version of their speech (Flash, Power Point
etc.) can be made to hear during the conference.
If you are interested kindly write to me before submitting to the
Conference Committee. I urge you to register before July 15 to take
advantage of the concession.
Yours truly,
N.Kannan PhD (Biochemistry)
