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Thimphu
Thimphu, the capital and largest city of Bhutan, is the world's only national capital with no traffic lights — a high Himalayan valley of dzongs, monasteries and markets.
Genekha Gewog
Genekha Gewog is a rural block in Thimphu Dzongkhag, Bhutan, about an hour's drive south of the capital. Known for its production of prized matsutake and chanterelle mushrooms, it hosts the annual Genekha Matsutake Mushroom Festival and serves as the starting point for the Dagala Thousand Lakes Trek.
Sowa Rigpa
Sowa Rigpa (gSo ba Rig pa, གསོ་བ་རིག་པ, "science of healing") is the Himalayan medical tradition practised in Bhutan as one of two official components of the national health system alongside biomedicine. Services are delivered free of charge through the Department of Traditional Medicine Services, the National Traditional Medicine Hospital in Thimphu, traditional medicine units in every district hospital, and a state-owned pharmaceutical producer, Menjong Sorig Pharmaceuticals.
Thimphu District
Thimphu District (Dzongkha: ཐིམ་ཕུ་རྫོང་ཁག) is the most populous of Bhutan's twenty dzongkhags and contains the national capital, Thimphu. It serves as the political, economic, and administrative centre of the Kingdom of Bhutan, housing the seat of government, the royal palace, and the majority of the country's international organisations and diplomatic missions.
Institute of Traditional Medicine Services (Bhutan)
The Institute of Traditional Medicine Services (ITMS), formerly the National Institute of Traditional Medicine, is the principal Bhutanese institution for the practice, training and pharmaceutical production of Sowa Rigpa traditional medicine. Established in stages from 1968, it operates a hospital and pharmaceutical laboratory in Thimphu and trains drungtshos and menpas through the Faculty of Traditional Medicine of Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan.
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