Tradition:

Tibetan

Source / Author:

Men Tsee Kang

Preparation:

Powder and form Pills.

Function:

Clears Heat (Bile)

Use:

Bitter taste, feeling of heat, thirst, fast pulse
“This is a very wonderful general medicine for diseases of mkhris [Bile]”
1. Heat (Bile) diseases in general
2. Headache from Heat
3. Feeling of heat in the Head
4. Bad kan (Phlegm)–Mhkris (Bile) (Damp-Heat) diseases
5. Liver Heat
6. Cholecystitis
7. Heat and Inflammation of the Stomach and Inestines

Dose:

1–2 grams

Cautions:

Not used in cold diseases

Modifications:

1. Momordica cochinchinensis is substituted for Herpetospermum
2. When Shilajit, Pomegranate and Swertia are added, it is used in Mongolia for three types of Gall Bladder disease: Hot, Cold and Wind (rLung)

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