Unlike her peers, Munkhtsetseg, a medical student from Arkhangai province, is fascinated by Mongolian traditional medicine and studies it in her spare time while at medical school in Ulaanbaatar. She believes ‘everything we are comes from nature, especially in Mongolia, where we have an old history and tradition, but with new treatments waiting to be discovered traditional medicine holds great potential for hypertension and other diseases’.

Photograph: Alexander Kumar