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153533
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In Vietnamese medicine, gia truyền (“family recipes”) refers to a set of texts, primarily in chữ nôm (demotic Vietnamese characters), that preserves local knowledge about how practitioners in a specific family-based medical circle could use various plants and other materia medica to cure disease. This article traces the history of the transmission of gia truyền in the 19th and 20th centuries. It suggests that prior to the 1920s, gia truyền were written anonymously to protect the author’s identity in the face of the Nguyễn dynasty’s repression of chữ nôm writing. In the 1920s, precisely at the time that hán-nôm writing was being eclipsed by education in French and quốc ngữ (Romanized Vietnamese), Vietnamese medical practitioners experienced a renaissance in the writing of chữ nôm gia truyền. Moreover, chữ nôm writing in the gia truyền genre continued until at least the 1990s.
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085862
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The ongoing use and protection of traditional medicines presents unique challenges for authorities, practitioners and stakeholders. With changes in the international intellectual property environment and biodiversity regulation, the Thai government has responded to ensure that traditional medicines, texts, traditional medical formulas, medicinal plants and herbs are protected through the development of a sui generis law. Drafted in 1999, the Act on Protection and Promotion of Thai Traditional Medicinal Intelligence is now being implemented in stages. Recent incidents, including controversies surrounding local and foreign patents over a Thai medicinal herb named kwao krua (Pueraria mirifica), have given impetus to traditional medicines protection, but have also tested the utility and implementation of the act by the Thai Department of Public Health. This article discusses the issues and implications in Thailand, while also reflecting on the approaches for traditional medicines protection internationally and in other countries.
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