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Tian Wang Bu Xin Wan

Tian Wan Bu Xin Wan  天王补心丸Emperor of Heaven’s Tonify the Heart Pill Tian Wang Bu Xin Wan made by Beijing Tongren Tang, one of the oldest and most respected manufacturers in China. They are prepared as 9 gram honey boluses sealed with wax. Tradition: TCM Source / Author: Fine formulas for Women with Annotations and…

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Musk, Moschus, She Xiang 麝香

Musk, Moschus, She Xiang 麝香 MuskMuska (Persian)Mushk (Unani)Mrgamadah (Sanskrit)Gla Rtsi  གླ་རྩི  (Tibetan) Gart der Gesundheit, Cuba, 1485 Tibetan Musk Deer (Wikimedia) Above: Container traditionally used to transport Musk pods. (Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578)Left: Musk Deer (Shaw, G. Zoological Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution, 1809) Left: Tonkin Musk; Right: Russian MuskHandbook of Pharmaceutical Practice, Hager, 1878…

Oil of Sulphur

Oleum SulphurisOil of Sulphur Tradition: West Source / Author: Preparation ‘Take a little earthen cup, which turn upside down, upon which place another Cup filled with melted Sulphur, place these in the middle of a Great Earthen Pan; over these hang a glass bell with a long neck like a Matrass, an Inch and a…

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Spermatorrhea and Nocturnal Emission

Spermatorrhea / Nocturnal Emission Western Tradition TCM Classification Spermatorrhea1, Drink a decoction of Fenugreek daily. Simple Syrup of CoralSyrup of Agnus CastusSyrup of Purslane seed (Mesue)The Strengthening GelatinDecoction of Water Lily CompoundPowder for Spermatorrhea (Nicholas)Powder for Spermatorrhea (Bononiense)Powder for GonorrheaPowder for Gonorrhea from Heat (Nicholas)Powder of Licorice (Unani)Powder of Digher (Unani)Pills for SpermatorrheaPills of Datura…

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Aloeswood 10 (A gar bcu pa)

A gar bcu pa   ཨ་གར་བཅུ་པ་Aloeswood 10 Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Men Tsee Kang Herb Name Ar ga ru (Aloeswood)Shing kun (Asafetida)Sha chen *Dza ti (Nutmeg)Go snyod (Caraway)Snying zo shaTang kunRu rta (Costus)Li shi (Clove)Bu ram (Brown Sugar) ** Latin Aquillaria agallochaFerula foetida Myristica fragransCarum carviChoerospondias axillarisSelinum wallichianumSaussurea lappaEugenia caryophyllusSaccharum Amount 50 grams50 grams50…

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Gentiana, Gentian, Long Dan Cao PRO

Gentiana, Gentian, Long Dan Cao 龙胆草 Ghaafis, Jantiana (Unani)related species:–In TCM G. gabra (Long Dan Cao)–In Ayurveda, G. kurroo (Trayamana)–In Tibet G. robusta (Kyi lce) Herbarius latinus, Petri, 1485 Greater and Lesser GentiansDella Materia Medicinale, Andrea Valuassori, 1562 Japanese Herbal, 17th century (Welcome) Gentiana luteaFlora Medica, Royal College of Physicians, 1829 Gentiana purpureaFlora von Deutschland…

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Electuary of Pearl (Actuarius)

DiamargarumElectuary of Pearl Tradition: Western Source / Author: Actuarius (Luminare Majus, 1551) Herb Name CinnamonCloveIndian SpikenardGalangalLicoriceAloeswoodTroches of RoseTroches of VioletNutmeg MaceZedoaryRhubarbStoraxPearlGingerBone of a Stag’s HeartIvory Blatta ByzantinaMuskAmbergrisCamphor Latin Cinnamonum zeylanicum Eugenia caryophyllus Nardostachys jatamansi Alpina officinarum Glycyrrhiza glabra Aquillaria agallocha Troschici Rosarum Troschici Violarum Myristica fragrans Myristica fragrans Curcuma zedoaria Rheum palmatum Styrax officinalis Margarita…

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Six White Formula (Dkar po drug sbyor)

Dkar po drug sbyor དཀར་པོ་དྲུག་སྦྱོར་Six White Formula Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Herb Name Bul tog (Soda) *Tsha la (Borax) * **Cong zhi tskha btul (Calcite)Ma nu (Inula)Rgyam tshwa (Rock Salt)Sga skya (Galangal)   Latin Native Sodium carbonateSodium tetraborateCalcium carbonateInula racemosaSodium chlorideKaempferia galanga Amount 150 grams80 grams100 grams100 grams 30 grams50 grams * The Soda and…

Selaginella pulvinata, Chu srin sder mo PRO

Selaginella pulvinata, Chu srin sder mo ཆུ་སྲིན་སྡེར་མོ SpikemossChu srin sder mo (Tibetan Medicine)Juan Bai (TCM)Hatha Jodi (Ayurveda) Selaginella tamariscinaGartenflora [E. von Regel], vol. 28 (1879) Selaginella tamariscina(Photo by Jerzy Opioła) (Wikimedia) Selaginella Juan Bai as available on the Chinese market (GuanDong)(Adam, 2024) Botanical name: Selaginella spp. S. pulvinata (syn. S. japonica, Lycopodium pulvinata, L. involvens)…

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Powder to Tighten the Vulva like a Virgin

Powder to Tighten the Vulva like a Virgin Tradition: Western Source / Author: Galen (Omnia Quae extant in Latinum Sermonem Conversa, 1556) Herb Name Comfrey rootAlumPomegranate flowerMyrrh FrankincenseMasticResinBlack PitchArmenian EarthGall GypsumBurnt Deer HornRound BirthwortGallia * Latin Symphytum officinale AlumenPunica granatum Commiphora molmol Boswellia sacra Pistacia lentiscus Colophonia Picis nigraTerra Armenius Quercus infectoria GypsiCornu Cervii Usta…

Doronicum

Doronicum Lepoard’s BaneDarunaj Aqrabi (Unani) Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578 Japanese Herbal, 17th century (Welcome) Two varieties of DoronicumKreutterbuch, Matthiolus, 1586 Doronicum pardalianches Doronicum scorpioides Doronicum austriacum Flora von Deutschland (29), Kohler, 1887 Doronicum paradalianches                 Doronicum plantagineumFlorigraphia Britannica, Deakin, 1857 Doronicum root (Calcutta Unani College, Adam, 2019) Botanical name: Doronicum spp.Various species of Doronicum are known including:…

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Powder for Mixed Humors (Mesue)

Powder for Mixed Humors Tradition: Wetsern, Unani Source / Author: Mesue Herb Name Black Hellebore, preparedGingerCinnamonAniseed MasticGum ArabicCamphor Latin Helleborus niger praeparataZingiber officinalisCinnamonum zeylanicumPimpinella anisum Pistacia lentiscusAcacia arabicaCamphora Amount 2 scruples 10 grains ea. Preparation: Powder Function: Purges mixed Humors, especially Pituitous, Bile and Burnt Bile Use: Diseases caused by mixed Humors: obstinate Skin diseases,…

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