Franz Reichle's The Knowledge of Healing documents...[the] 2000-year-old system of healing that relies heavily on the medicinal use of plants, herbs, and minerals...

[This film] follows several cases where Tibetan doctors were able to heal people with chronic illnesses after Western doctors had given up on them...

Reichle interviews the Dalia Lama and his physician, as well as an impressive array of doctors, biochemists, and biophysicists in Europe and Israel who take Tibetan medicine extremely seriously...

(Excerpted from Amy Taubin's review, The Village Voice, November 11, 1997 p. 82)

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