Calcined Boar Feces, Gar nag གར་ནག
‘Black Camphor’
Gar nag (Tibetan Medicine)
Zoological name:
Sus scrofa and related species
Parts used:
Carbonised Boar dung
Temperature & Taste:
Cold, dry. Pungent
Uses:
1. Clears Heat, Resists Toxin:
-Septic disorders
-Infectious and Epidemic Fevers
-Tumors from Bile
-also regarded as an antidote to poison in the West
2. Promotes Digestion, Clears Heat and Damp:
-Indigestion
-Diarrhea and Dysentery (West)
3. Clears Damp, Settles Wind:
-taken in wine for Sciatica (West)
4. Stops Bleeding:
-Spitting of Blood and other types of bleeding (West: Schroder, Salmon)
-Menorrhagia (TCM)
Dose:
Ashed dung was taken in a dose of half dram in the West.
Substitute:
Burdock seed has been used as a substitute in Buryat region
Main Combinations:
1. Indigestion, abdominal pain and distention, Bile diseases with stomach ache, indigestion, poor appetite, bitter taste and yellowing of the eyes and skin, Calcined Pig Stool, Pomegranate seed, Cinnamon, Long Pepper, Lesser Cardamon, Chebula and Rock Salt (as in Black Camphor 10 of Tibetan Medicine
2. Indigestion with bitter taste, yellowing of eyes, and epigastric pain; Calcined Pig Stool, Pomegranate seed, hebula, Herpetospermum, Shilajit (as in Golden 5 of Tibetan Medicine)
Major Formulas:
Black Camphor 4 (Gar nag bzhi thang) (Tibetan)
Black Camphor 10 (Gar nag 10) (Tibetan)
Asafetida 25 (Shin kun nyer lnga) (Tibetan)
Bright Red Decoction (Dmar chen thang) (Tibetan)
Golden 5 (Gser mdog 5) (Tibetan)
Great Black Combination (Sman nag chen mo) (Tibetan)
Notopterygium 29 Pills (Spru nag nyer dgu) (Tibetan)
Podophyllum 25 (‘Ol se nyer lnga) (Tibetan)
Pomegranate 8 Petalled Lotus (Se ‘bru pad ma ‘dab brgyad) (Tibetan)
Tumor Destroying Lunar Pill (Skran ‘joms zla bsil) (Tibetan)
Cautions:
None noted
