The regional government supplied capital for the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region Hospital of Tibetan Medicine and six prefectural-level hospitals of Tibetan medicine, an addition of more than 350 hospital beds for patients receiving Tibetan medical treatment. Some counties have hospitals of Tibetan medicine and most county-level hospitals have a Tibetan medicine department with its own hospital beds. Every year, over 500,000 people seek medical treatment in these hospitals. A college and a research institute of Tibetan medicine have been established to continue and develop this traditional medical art.

The government encourages veteran doctors of Tibetan medicine to write books summarizing their precious experiences. The famous Four-Volume Medical Code has been published in a new edition along with scores of newly compiled or written teaching materials and treatises includingThe Complete Four-Volume Medical Code Wall Chart Series, the"Tibetan Medicine"volume of theEncyclopedia of Medicine, Tibetan Medicine Physiology, Pathology, Pharmacology, and Bromatology, and theNew Compilation of Tibetan Medicine.

In recent years research specialists in Tibetan medicine has qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed more than 1,000 plants used in Tibetan medicine to determine their specific name, pharmacological components, functions and effects, and their proper use and dosage, with the result that Tibetan medicine has become more standardized and scientific. At present, there are three fairly large factories producing Tibetan pharmaceuticals. In addition, some prefectural- and county-level Tibetan medicine hospitals and Tibetan medicine departments in other hospitals themselves have the capacity to produce Tibetan pharmaceuticals.

The particular efficacy of traditional Tibetan patent medicines such asTsodru 70 Ingredients,Tsodru Tashel,Yunying 25 IngredientsandChangjorin treating common and stubborn illnesses has been proven through modern laboratory analysis and clinical observation. Combined treatment with Tibetan and Western medicine has produced cures in 73 percent of chronic atrophic gastritis cases.