SHILAJIT Research Edit In 1955 Shakirov, based on ethnography study and old medical manuscripts, started systematic pharmacological study of Mumiye-asil. In 1976 Mumiye-asil was found beneficial in the complex treatment of bone fractures. In 1978, on the initiative of the Ministry of Health of the Uzbek SSR, the 3rd All-Union Symposium was held in Tashkent on experimental and morphological studies of the effect of mumiyo on the regeneration of nerves, heart muscle and bones. Shilajit ( Sanskrit : शिलाजीत "Conqueror of mountain, Conqueror of the Rocks, Destroyer of Weakness") or Mumijo is a blackish-brown powder or an exudate from high mountain rocks, often found in theHimalayas, Badakhshan- Afghanistan, Karakoram, Gilgit-Baltistan - Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Russia, Central Asia, Iran, Mongolia and in the south of Peru, where it is called Andean Shilajit. Also known as μούμια (i...