Medicine can be totally different from what we are used to yet be effective, and Tibetan medicine is both – effective in many spheres and very, very different. Perhaps that is what makes it of wider interest at a time when many sense some lack of completeness in Western culture and seek out the global view. Here, in a broad perspective having general as well as technical significance, the author – who speaks Tibetan and studied with their practitioners – includes chapters on cancer, mental illness, and East-West research.