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Thai traditions
Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine (DTAM)
The national home of Thai traditional medicine: texts, formulas, laws and online courses.
THAll areasThai Herbal Pharmacopoeia 2021, Supplement 2025
Thailand's quality standards for herbal drugs; the 2025 supplement adds 23 monographs.
ENThai Origins · Thai NourishWat Pho Thai Traditional Medical and Massage School
Thailand's best-known school for Thai massage, Thai pharmacy and traditional medical practice.
ENThai CareThe Epigraphic Archives of Wat Pho
The Wat Pho stone inscriptions, including traditional medicine, listed in UNESCO's Memory of the World in 2011.
ENThai Care · Thai OriginsTraditional Medicine Systems of BIMSTEC Member States: 2023 Report
Shows who regulates what in Thai traditional medicine: DTAM, Thai FDA and the Department of Medical Sciences.
ENAll areasกรมทรัพย์สินทางปัญญา โชว์ความสำเร็จ ปี 68 (Thai GI results 2025)
The Department of Intellectual Property's 2025 summary of Thai geographical indications.
THThai OriginsMusic Therapy, Master of Arts
Thailand's clinical music therapy training, linked to Mahidol's hospitals.
ENThai SoundWhere to find the science
ThaiJO (Thai Journals Online)
Search Thai peer-reviewed journals in one place, in Thai and English.
THAll areasThai National Research Repository (TNRR)
Find Thai publicly funded research projects, results and researchers.
THAll areasPubMed
Free search of more than 40 million biomedical studies.
ENAll areasCochrane Library
Systematic reviews: the strongest summaries of what the evidence shows.
ENAll areasJournal of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine
The core journal for clinical studies of Thai traditional medicine.
THThai Origins · Thai Care · Thai MoveThai FDA: health claims for functional foods (MOPH Notification No. 477, 2023)
Pre-approved health claims that food products can use on their labels.
ENThai NourishWHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre
WHO's centre for research and evidence on traditional medicine.
ENAll areasGlobal Traditional Medicine Strategy 2025–2034
The global plan for building evidence on traditional medicine.
ENAll areas2025 Global Wellness Economy Monitor
Sizes the global wellness economy, market by market.
ENAll areasNew research
Fall prevention program with Ruesi Dadton exercise for older adults with diabetes in Bangkok: a randomized controlled trial
An 8-week program raised fall-prevention behavior scores against a control group.
ENThai MoveReduction of knee pain from osteoarthritis with Thai massage and Thai herbal poultice
Adding the herbal poultice to Thai massage gave more relief from knee pain at rest.
ENThai CareImmediate effects of Thai foot massage on renal blood flow, psychological stress and heart rate variability in older adults
Fifteen minutes of Thai foot massage raised kidney blood flow and heart rate variability and lowered stress.
ENThai CareCurcumin and proton pump inhibitors for functional dyspepsia: a randomised, double blind controlled trial
Curcumin from turmeric worked as well as omeprazole for indigestion; combining them added nothing.
ENThai Origins · Thai NourishEfficacy of Andrographis paniculata extract in COVID-19 patients treated with favipiravir (APFaVi trial)
Fah talai jone extract added no clinical benefit on top of favipiravir.
ENThai OriginsAndrographis paniculata or favipiravir in mild COVID-19: a randomized controlled trial
Both lowered viral load and symptoms; fah talai jone did better on phlegm and headache.
ENThai OriginsEffects of an exercise program with Muay Thai dance training on the health of older adults
Eight weeks improved flexibility and strength in adults aged 60 to 70, compared with a control group.
ENThai MoveEffectiveness of a smartphone application with wireless earbuds for audiometric testing
A phone hearing test agreed well with a standard audiometer.
ENThai SignalsModel for promoting the potential of the elderly with the wisdom of Thai angklung
Older adults trained on the angklung; the authors report better coordination, alertness and mood.
THThai SoundPhitsanulok Herbal City: policy for moving Thai medicinal herbs to the industrial sector
Finds the Herbal City policy leans toward tourism and Thai medicine more than commercial herb farming.
THThai OriginsBooks
The Blue Zone: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest
Dan Buettner's study of places where people live the longest, and what they share.
ENAll areasOutlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
A modern guide to living longer and better, through exercise and prevention.
ENAll areasEncyclopedia of Thai Massage (2nd edition)
An English reference on Thai massage and its techniques.
ENThai CareTraditional Thai Medicine: Buddhism, Animism, Ayurveda
A short history of where Thai traditional medicine comes from.
ENThai Origins · Thai CareThai Herbal Medicine: Traditional Recipes for Health and Harmony (2nd edition)
Practical Thai herbal preparations and the ideas behind them.
ENThai OriginsTraditional Thai Yoga: The Postures and Healing Practices of Ruesri Dat Ton
The main English book on Ruesi Dadton postures.
ENThai MoveThai Food
An in-depth English book on Thai cuisine and its recipes.
ENThai NourishChecked 7 Nov 2026. Links go to the publisher or official source. A listing is not an endorsement. To suggest a source, write to hello@thailandlongevity.org