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the teacher, and the relationship between to be transmitted orally, for this is indispens-

teacher and student is still preserved, as a able for their full effect and also guarantees
father and son, and the oral teachings are the perpetuation of the ùchainû to which the
[4]
still being used as a way to transmit the tra- very life of tradition is linkedé . Thus for the
ditional knowledge. Negative impacts on researcher, textbooks help the preservation
change 2: The teacher and student may not of Thai traditional medicine knowledge, and
live together, which may compromise the fully when accompanied by oral teachings, text-

oral transmission. The knowledge maybe books serve only as support of transmission
transmitted on charge, which limits the trans- of traditional knowledge, and not as a main

mission only to certain people. source of it. Therefore, oral teachings are still
Change 3: It was during the reign of prevalent in this stage. Giving a salary to
Chulalongkorn (1867-1910), that the knowledge persuade students to study the Thai tradi-

inscribed on stones and walls in temples, as tional medicine, it contributed to the preser-
well as, the ancient scriptures and manu- vation of the medical knowledge, increasing

scripts kept with traditional doctors, were the numbers of doctors and practitioners of
collected, edited and transcribed into text- the Thai traditional medicine. Negative im-
books that were implemented into the Thai pacts on change 3: Maybe the initiation is no

medicine educational system. At the time of longer accomplished. With the advancement
reign of Chulalongkorn, the government used of the world, and the increase of numbers of
to give a salary to encourage students to study universities and schools in Thailand, students

the three-years curriculum of the first tradi- no longer choose the teacher; they choose
tional medical school. With the advancements the school or university. Teachers no longer
of the world, in a more recent time, new ùacceptû the student; they are ùemployeesû of

schools and universities of Thai traditional school/university, therefore, initiation is not
medicine were established. accomplished. Thai medical knowledge be-

Positive impacts on change 3: At this comes to be commercialized, as a source of
stage, the traditional medicine knowledge income. Teachers are employees, and stu-
became available in wide proportions. On the dents, customers. As a customer, students

use of texts for transmission of traditional choose the most appropriated school, and not
knowledge, Guénonûs asserts, çwhere tradi- the teacher. Students pays the fee to the

tional teachings are more of less completely school, the teacher receives salary from the
available in written form, they still continue school. The relationship between teacher and