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Bright Red Decoction (Dmar chen thang)

ByAdam Tate

Dmar chen thang  དམར་ཆེན་ཐང་Bright Red Decoction Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Herb Name Ma nu (Inula)Sle tres (Tinospora)Kanda ka ri (Raspberry)Sga skya (Galangal)A ru ra (Chebulic Myrobalan) Ba ru ra (Belleric Myrobalan) Skyu ru ra (Emblic Myrobalan) Btsod (Madder)Zhun mkhanRgya tshos (Lacca)Tsan dan dkar po (White Sandal) Tsan dan dmar po (Red Sandal) Bri rmug…

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Emblic 6 (Skyu ru duk pa) (Tibetan Medicine)

ByAdam Tate

Skyu ru drug pa  སྐྱུ་རུ་དྲུག་པ།Or, Gcin snyi skyu ru drug pa  གཅིན་སྙི་ སྐྱུ་རུ་དྲུག་པ་Emblic 6 Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Men Tsee Kang Herb Name Skyu ru (Emblic)Yung Ba (Turmeric)Gze ma (Tribulus)Skyer Shun (Barberry)Bre Ga (Thlaspi)Sbrang rtsi (Honey) Latin Phyllanthus emblicaCurcuma longaTribulus terrestrisBerberis spp.Thlaspi arvense Mel Amount 130 grams100 grams140 grams100 grams100 grams50 grams Preparation: Powder…

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Swertia 5 Decoction (Tig ta lnga thang)

ByAdam Tate

Tig ta lnga thang   ཏིག་ཏ་ལྔ་ཐང་།Swertia 5 Decoction Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Amdo Compendium Herb Name Tig ta (Swertia)Bong dkar (White Aconite)Skyer shun (Barberry)Sle tres (Tinospora)Li ga dur (Cranesbill) * Latin Swertia chirataAconitum heterophyllumBerberies aristataTinospora cordifoliaGeranium tuberaria Amount 600 grams ea. 400 grams ea. * Bergenia purpurascens according to some sources Preparation: Powder coarsely to…

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Illuminating Sun Disc (Mun sel nyi ma’i dkyil khor)

ByAdam Tate

Mun sel nyi ma’i dkyil khor  མུན་སེལ་ ཉི་མའི་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་Illuminating Sun Disc Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Herb Name lchags phye (Iron filings)Skyer Shun (Barberry)A ru ra (Chebulic Myrobalan) Ba ru ra (Belleric Myrobalan) Skyu ru ra (Emblic Myrobalan) Ba sha ka Gur gum (Safflower) Latin FerrumBerberis aristataTerminalia chebulaTerminalia bellericaEmblica officinalisAdhatoda vasicaCarthamus tinctorius Amount equal parts Preparation:…

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Great Cold Compound Precious Black Pill

ByAdam Tate

Rin chen ril nag chen mo   རིན་ཆེན་རིལ་རིལ་ནག་ཆེན་མོ་Or Rin chen grang sbyor ril nag chen mo  རིན་ཆེན་གྲང་སྦྱོར་རིལ་ནག་ཆེན་མོ་Or, Rin chen grang sbyor  རིན་ཆེན་གྲང་སྦྱོར་Rin chen drangjor rilnak chenmo Great Cold Compound Precious Black Pill Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Written by Nagarjuna, introduced into Tibet by O rgyan pa Rinchen dpal (1229–1309)The following version is taken from…

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Betel nut 28 (Go yu nyer brgyad)

ByAdam Tate

Go yu nyer brgyad  གོ་ཡུ་ཉེར་བརྒྱད་Betel nut 28 Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Men Tsee Kang Herb Name Se bru (Pomegranate)Shing tsha (Cinnamon)Pi Pi ling (Long Pepper)Sug smel (Cardamon)Dong khra (Red Ginger) *Gser bye (Vermiculite)Bre ga (Treacle Mustard)A ‘bras (Fever nut)Sra ‘bras (Eugenia) **‘jam-‘bras (Mango kernel)Tskhos (Lacca)Btsod (Madder)Zhu mkhan (Symplocos)Gla rtsi (Musk)Mkhal zo (Canavalia)Utpal (Blue Poppy)Shug…

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Cardamon 19 (Sug smel bcu dgu)

ByAdam Tate

Sug smel bcu dgu  སུག་སྨེལ་བཅུ་དགུ་Cardamon 19 Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Men Tsee Kang Herb Name Sug smel (Cardamon)Rgyam tshwa (Rock Salt)Pi Pi ling (Long Pepper)Gla rtsi (Musk) Sdig srin (Crab shell)Lcam pa (Mallow seed)A bras (Mango kernel)Sra bras (Java Plum)Jam bras (Fever nut) Lcha ba (Angelica)Nye shing (Asparagus)Gze ma (Tribulus)Skyer shun (Barberry)Bca sga (Fresh…

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Swertia 8 (Tig ta brgyad pa)

ByAdam Tate

Tig ta brgyad pa   ཏིག་ཏ་བརྒྱད་པ་Ba Wei Zhang Ya Cai San 八味獐牙菜散 (TCM)Swertia 8 Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Men Tsee Kang Herb Name Tig ta (Swertia)Gser me tog (Herpetospermum)Bong dkar (White Aconite)Ru rta (Costus)Rtsa mkhris **Hong len (Picrorhiza)Par pa ta (Hypecoum) ***Skyer shun (Barberry) Latin Swertia chirataHerpetospermum pedunculosumAconitum heterophyllumSaussurea lappaLactuca lessertianaPicrorhiza kurroaHypecoum leptocarpumBerberis aristata…

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Swertia 25 (Tig ta nyer lnga)

ByAdam Tate

Tig ta nyer lnga  ཏིག་ཏ་ཉེར་ལྔ་Swertia 25 Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Herb Name Rgya tig (Indian Swertia)Sum tig *Lchags tig *A ru ra (Chebula)Dug mo nyung (Holarrhena)Gur gum (Safflower) Cu gang (Tabasheer) Dza ti (Nutmeg) Ka ko la (Greater Cardamon) Pi pi ling (Long Pepper)Rgun brum (Raisin)Se bru (Pomegranate)Skyer shun (Barberry)Brag zhun khanda (Shilajit)Bong dkar…

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