8世纪中叶拜占庭或大食医师毕吉自西域入藏，流传下来一部外科医典《毕吉黄函》，其中记载的一些药从名称看可排除印度梵文的源头，本文基于此判断进一步考证，指出其中的“麝香”“针铁矿”可以归结于内亚文化圈的突厥—蒙古语源，而“黄铁矿”“朱砂”则可归结于希腊文化圈的希腊—科普特语源，另有“磁石”可以归结于古巴比伦语源。结合该医典作者毕吉名号的诠释及其希腊文化圈盖伦医学体系背景，上述可以考证出来的药名源流反映出，包含北非埃及和南欧希腊在内的近东古典医药成就，在沿着丝绸之路向东传播的过程中，不断吸收内陆欧亚多民族的医药成果，从而汇聚于藏医体系。
In the eighth century，the Byzantine or Tazig physician Biji Tsampashilaha crossed Serindia and came into Tibet，whence spread down the medical codex entitled as Biji's Poti Khaser. In this book，there appear some medicine terms in Tibetan obviously far from the Sanskrit etymology. Based on it，this paper furthers some etymological approaches to the following items：the Tibetan medicine terms for musk and for goethite could be traced back to the Inner Asian Turco-Mongolic etymons and the ones for pyrite and for cinnabar back to the Graeco-Coptic etymons as well as the one for magnetite back to the Old Babylonian etymon. Against the background of Galenic medical system in Hellenic world and together with the explanation of the proper names Biji and Tsampashilaha，the deciphered etymology of the five medicine terms in Tibetan is indicative of the historical fact that the greater Near Eastern medical thesaurus in the classical periods had been transmitting along the Silk Road eastwards into the Tibetan medical system，with the continual absorption of the Egyptian，Greek，Turco-Mongolic medical achievements.
