Практики традиционной медицины у калмыков (по данным полевых материалов)

Abstract

The article discusses the practice of the traditional medicine among Kalmyks. The set goals were achieved through the use of comparative-historical and contrastive-comparative methods on the basis of the field materials: audiorecordings of 1960–1980s and video-recordings of 2018 where elder people shared their memories of the exile years including the ways and techniques of using traditional medicine to cure diseases. These recordings are kept at the Scientific Archive of the Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS. The methods of the Kalmyk traditional medicine are of scientific value for comprehensive study of the cultural heritage of the Kalmyk people. Despite the hardships of the deportation, Kalmyks preserved the accumulated knowledge in the field of traditional medicine, historically ascending to the achievements of the Tibetan medicine.