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Antidotal 18 (Gnyen po bco brgyad)

ByAdam Tate

Gnyen po bco brgyad  གཉེན་པོ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་Antidotal 18 Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Men Tsee Kang Herb Name Gur gum (Safflower) Li shi (Clove) Ru rta (Costus) A ru ra (Chebulic Myrobalan) Ba ru ra (Belleric Myrobalan) Skyu ru ra (Emblic Myrobalan) Jam Bras (Indian Beech)Sha ru (Deer horn)Tsan dan dmar po (Red Sandal) Bong dkar (White…

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Safflower 13 (Gur gum bcu gsum)

ByAdam Tate

Gur Gum bcu gsum  གུར་གུམ་བཅུ་གསུམ།Safflower 13 Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Men Tsee Kang Herb Name Gur gum (Safflower)Tsan dmar (Red Sandal) **Li shi (Clove)Gi wan (Bezoar) Bse ru (Rhino horn) ***Mtshal (Cinnabar)Jam bras (Fever nut) ****Bong dkar (White Aconite)Ru rta (Costus)A ru ra (Chebula)Ba ru (Belleric)Skyu ru (Emblic)Gla rtsi (Musk) ***** Latin Carthamus tinctoriusPterocarpus…

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Wishfulfilling Garuda (Bsam khyung)

ByAdam Tate

Bsam khyung བསམ་ ཁྱུང་Wish-fulfilling Garuda Tradition: Tibetan Medicine Source / Author: Herb Name Cu gang (Tabasheer)Gur gum (Safflower)Li shi (Clove)Dza ti (Nutmeg) Sug smel (Cardamon)Ka ko la (Amomum)Tsan dkar (White Sandal)Tsan dmar (Red Sandal)Ar ga ru (Aloeswood)Gla rtsi (Musk) *Gi wan (Bezoar) *Mu tig (Pearl)Bse ru (Rhino horn) **A ru ra (Chebula)Ba ru (Belleric)Skyu ru…

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Onosma 7 (Rgwa glo’i sman dmar)

ByAdam Tate

Rgwa glo’i sman dmar  རྒ་གློའི་སྨན་དམར་Onosma 7 Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Herb Name Bri mog (Onosma)Cong zhi tsha btul (Calcite)Ba sha ka (Adhatoda)Shing mnar (Licorice)Ma nu (Inula)Ru rta (Costus)Skyu ru (Emblic Myrobalan) Latin Onosma echioldesCalcitumAdhatoda vasicaGlycyrrhiza glabraInula racemosaSaussurea lappaEmblica officinalis Amount Preparation: Powder and form pills Function: Clears Wind-Heat, Clears Heat from the Blood and…

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Saint’s White Pill (Grub ril)

ByAdam Tate

Grub ril  གྲུབ་རིལ་or Grub thob ril dkar  གྲུབ་ཐོབ་རིལ་དཀར་or Chong zhi ril dkar  ཅོང་ཞི་རིལ་དཀར་Jie Bai Wan 洁白丸 (TCM)Saint’s White Pillor Yogi’s White Pill Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Tang Tong Gyelpo (14th century) There are a number of different variations and versions given for the “White Pill”. The first version is from Drungtso: Herb Name Cong…

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Possessing All Benefits (Phan pa khun ldan)

ByAdam Tate

Phan pa khun ldan ཕན་པ་ ཁུན་ ལྡན་Possessing All Benefits Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Herb Name Se bru (Pomegranate)Sug smel (Cardamon)Ru rta (Costus)Bong nga dkar po (White Aconite)Byi tang ga (Embelia) Gya kyi ma (Spleenwort)Rgya tshwa (Sal ammoniac)Gla rtsi (Musk)Thang phrom dkar poShing kun (Asafetida)Ma nu (Inula)Gur gum (Safflower)Pho ba ris (Black Pepper)Sdig srin (Crab…

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Aloeswood 8 Water Transformer (Ar brgyad chu bsgyur)

ByAdam Tate

Ar brgyad chu bsgyur   ཨར་བརྒྱད་ཆུ་བསྒྱུར་བསྒྱུར་   Aloeswood 8 Water Transformer Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Men Tsee Kang Herb Name Ar nag (Aloeswood)Dza ti (Nutmeg) peeledSnying zho sha with seedsCu gang (Tabasheer)Spos dkar (Frankincense)Ru rta (Costus) peeled‘Bri ta sa ‘dzin (Wild Strawberry)Sdig srin (freshwater crab shell)Lcham ‘bru (Mallow seed) Latin Aquillaria agallochaMyristica fragransChoerospondias axillarisBambusa textilesBoswellia sacraSaussurea…

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Tumor Destroying Lunar Pill (Skran ‘joms zla bsil)

ByAdam Tate

Skran ‘joms zla bsil  སྐྲན་འཇོམས་ཟླ་བསིལ་Tumor Destroying Lunar Pill Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Amdo Compendium Herb Name Gur gum (Safflower)Tig ta (Swertia)Gser Me (Herpetospermum)Ru rta (Costus)Brag zhun (Shilajit)A ru ra (Chebula)Se bru (Pomegranate)Phag brun (Pig feces) *‘Gron thal (Cowrie ash)Star bu (Sea Buckthorn)Mdze tshva (Glauber’s Salt) Latin Carthamus tinctoriusSwertia chirataHerpetospermum pedunculosumSaussurea lappaAsphaltumTerminalia chebulaPunica granatumPorcus faceiCypraea…

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Mental Happiness (Sems kyi bde skyid) (Tibetan Medicine)

ByAdam Tate

Sems kyi bde skyid  སེམས་སྐྱི་བདེ་སྐྱིད།Mental Happiness Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Men Tsee Kang Herb Name Shin kun (Asafetida)Bong nga nag po (Aconite)Sga skya (Ginger)Na le sham (Black Pepper)Pi pi ling (Long Pepper)Brong khrag (Yak Blood)Kha ru tshwa (Black Salt)Snying zho sha (Lapsi tree)Ru rta (Costus)Dza ti (Nutmeg)A gar ru (Aloeswood)Go yu (Betel nut)Ri bong…

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Aloeswood 11 (A gar bcu gcig)

ByAdam Tate

A gar bcu gcig  ཨ་གར་བཅུ་གཅིག་Aloeswood 11 Tradition: Tibetan Medicine Source / Author: Herb Name Ar ga ru (Aloeswood)Li shi (Clove) Dza ti (Nutmeg)Sug smel (Cardamon)Ru rta (Costus)Seng ldeng (Catechu)A ru ra (Chebula)Shing kun (Asafetida)Pi pi ling (Long Pepper)Pho ba ris (Black Pepper)Sman sga (Ginger) Latin Aquillaria agallochaEugenia caryophyllusMyristica fragransElettaria cardamomumSaussurea lappaAcacia catechuTerminalia chebulaFerula foetidaPiper longumPiper…

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Rhinoceros Horn 25 (Bse ru nyer lnga)

ByAdam Tate

Bse ru nyer lnga   བསེ་རུ་ཉེར་ལྔ་Rhinoceros Horn 25 Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Men Tsee Kang Herb Name Bse ru (Rhinoceros horn) *Rgya ru (Antelope horn) **Sha ru (Burnt Deer horn) Cu gang (Tabasheer)Gur gum (Safflower)Li shi (Clove)Dza ti (Nutmeg) Sug smel (Cardamon)Ka ko la (Amomum)Tsan dkar (White Sandal)Tsan dmar (Red Sandal)Na ga ge sarRu…

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Caraway 5 Decoction (Go snyod 5 Thang) (Tibetan Medicine)

ByAdam Tate

Go snyod lnga thang   གོ་སྙོད་ལྔ་ཐང་Caraway 5 Decoction Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Herb Name Go snyod (Caraway)Ru rta (Costus)Ka ko la (Amomum)Li shi (Clove) Dza ti (Nutmeg) Latin Carum carviSaussurea lappaAmomum subulatumEugenia caryophyllusMyristica fragrans Amount Preparation: Boil down to half in water, or preferably bone-broth Function: Settles Wind, Strengthens the Spleen Use: 1. Headache from…

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