Gtso bo brgyad pa  གཙོ་བོ་བརྒྱད་པ་
Principle 8

Tradition:


Tibetan

Source / Author:



Herb Name

Cu gang (Tabasheer)
Gur gum (Safflower)
Gi wan (Bezoar)
Tig Ta (Swertia)
Tsan dkar (Sandalwood)
Hong len (Picrorrhiza)

Bong nga dkar po (White Aconite)
Ba Sha Ka (Adhatoda)

Latin


Bambusa textiles
Carthamus tinctorius
Bezoar

Swertia chirata
Santalum album
Picrorrhiza / Lagotis
Aconitum heterophyllum
Adhatoda vasica

Amount


250 grams
150 grams
1 gram
150 grams
100 grams
150 grams
150 grams
150 grams

Preparation:


Form Pills, or used as a Powder

Function:


Clears Heat, Stops Cough

Use:


Fever, cough, headache, bitter taste in mouth, stabbing pain under the ribs, thirst
good in curing any new and old Fever without exception” (Men Tsee Kang)
fresh and old Heat due to Blood and mkhris [Bile], heat ‘khrugs [Fever] and heat rims [Epidemic diseases] of the dense and hollow organs, especially in the Lungs and Liver”. (Amdo Compendium)
1. Fever (‘disturbed’ and ‘contagious’)
2. Chronic Fever
3. Lung Fever in Children
4. Heat-type Cough, shortness of Breath with salty or red-yellow sputum
5. Chronic Lung infection
6. Excess Thirst
7. Cholecystitis
8. Hepatitis
9. Blood heat; infection in the Blood


Dose:


2–3 grams twice daily

Cautions:


Not used in Cold or Phlegm disease.

Modifications:


1. Added to Garuda 5 it is called Gtso khyung. Used for severe Cough from Lung Heat, Lung Fever and Liver Fever.
2. Add an equal amount of Oxytropis Stag Sha to treat Measles. (Men Tsee Kang)


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