The Ecological Culture in the Traditional Medicine of the Mongolian Peoples
Traditional medicine of the Mongolian peoples is an understudied phenomenon in need of scrutiny of its various branches, such as bone-setter craft, use of animal-based drugs or herbal medicine. Herbology is among the most interesting kinds of traditional medicine. It is a layer of traditional culture formed in the conditions of close interaction of Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic-Manchurian and Russian ethnic components. The key role in the making of traditional herbology practices belongs to the traditional worldview. One of its characteristic features is ecological thinking.