Ru rta (Costus)

A gar (Aloeswood) | A ru ra (Chebula) | Ba ru ra (Belleric Myrobalan) | Dza ti (Nutmeg) | Gla gor zho sha | Gu gul nag po (Myrrh) | Gzer 'joms | La la phud (Ajowan) | Li shi (Clove) | Mkhal ma zo sa (Mucuna) | Ri bong snying (Rabbit Heart) | Ru rta (Costus) | Sky ru ra (Emblic Myrobalan) | Sle tres (Tinospora) | Snying zho sha | Sugar | Tsher sngon (Blue Poppy)

Aloeswood 17 (A gar bcu bdun)
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024January 25, 2026

A gar bcu bdun ཨ་གར་བཅུ་བདུན་Aloeswood 17 Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Preparation: Powder and form pills. Function: Settles Wind, Regulates Qi and Blood, Benefits the Heart and Kidneys Use: “Especially this medicine helps with stabbing pain in the Kidneys and Lower Back”1. Insomnia2. Tinnitus3. Stabbing pains in the Head4. Neck stiffness5. Tightness in the chest6….

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'U su (Coriander) | A ru ra (Chebula) | Ba le ka (Birthwort) | Ba ru (Belleric) | Ba sa ka (Adhatoda) | Bca sga (Fresh Ginger) | Brag zhun (Shilajit) | Bse yab (Bengal Quince) | Cong zhi (Calcite) | Cu gang (Tabasheer) | Dza ti (Nutmeg) | ffl | Gur gum (Sa | Ka ko la (Amomum) | Li shi (Clove) | Ma nu (Inula) | ower | Pi pi ling (Long Pepper) | Rgyam tshva (Rock Salt) | Ru rta (Costus) | Se bru (Pomegranate) | Sga skya (Galangal) | Shyu ru (Emblic) | Star bu (Sea Buckthorn) | Sug smel (Cardamon) | Tig Ta (Swertia) | Ut Pal (Blue Poppy)

Calcite 25 (Cong zhi nyer lnga)
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024January 25, 2026

Cong zhi nyer lnga ཅོང་ཞི་ཉེར་ལྔ་Calcite 25 Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Preparation: Powder and form Pills with honey Function: Clears Phlegm, Promotes Digestion Use: “best for defeating three types of Bad kan [Phlegm]: Bad kan skya [White Phlegm], Bad kan smug [Brown Phlegm) and Bad kan sir [Yellow Phlegm].”1. Indigestion associated with Phlegm2. Abdominal distention3….

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A ru ra (Chebulic Myrobalan) | Bong nga nag po (Aconite) | Gla rtsi (Musk) | Ru rta (Costus) | Shu dag nag po (Calamus)

Garuda 5 (Khyung Lnga) (Tibetan Medicine)
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024January 25, 2026

Khyung Inga ཁྱུང་ལྔ།Garuda 5 Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: * Delphinium brunonianum is typically substituted for Musk** Aconite is prepared before use. *** Some versions only use 2 ½ grams of Aconite. Another versions uses Aconite in a weight equal to the Chebula. Preparation: Powder and form pills of 25mg each.Traditionally, the powders were mixed with…

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Ar nag (Black Myrobalan) | Cu gang (Tabasheer) | Dza ti (Nutmeg) | Gi wan (Bezoar) | Klu bdud rdo rje | Lan tshwa (Salt) | Li shi (Clove) | Na ga ge ser (Silk Cotton tree) | Pi pi ling (Long Pepper) | Ru rta (Costus) | Sga skya (Galangal) | Shu dag (Calamus) | Sman chen (Black Aconite) | Snying zho sha | Spos dkar (Frankincense) | Tsan dan dkar po (Sandalwood)

Vajra conquering Heart Wind 17 (Srog rlung ‘joms pa’i rdo rje bcu bdun)
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024January 25, 2026

Srog rlung ‘joms pa’i rdo rje bcu bdun སྲོག་རླུང་ཇོམས་པཻ་རྡོ་རྗེ་བཅུ་བདུན་Vajra conquering Heart Wind 17 Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: * Sha chen is Human flesh. Yak heart or Human Placenta have been substituted sometimes. Preparation: Powder and form Pills. Function: Settles Wind, regulates Qi Use: Cures all diseases of the Life Wind“This medicine will be a…

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A ru ra (Chebula) | Ar ga ru (Aloeswood) | Ba ru (Belleric) | Bri ta sa zin (Strawberry) | Bse ru (Rhino horn) | Cu gang (Tabasheer) | Dza ti (Nutmeg) | Ge Jie (Gecko) | Gi wan (Bezoar) | Gla rtsi (Musk) | Gser bye (gser gyis bye ma) | Ka ko la (Amomum) | Kha che gur gum (Saffron) | Lcam pa (Mallow seed) | Li shi (Clove) | Mu tig (Pearl) | Pi pi ling (Long Pepper) | Ru rta (Costus) | Sdig srin (Crab) | Shing tsha (Cinnamon) | Skyu ru (Emblic) | Sug smel (Cardamon) | Tsan dkar (White Sandal) | Tsan dmar (Red Sandal) | Zi ra dkar po (Cumin) | Zi ra nag po (Nigella)

Pearl 25 (Mu tig nyer lnga) (Tibetan Medicine)
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024January 25, 2026

Mu tig nyer lnga མུ་ཏིག་ཉེར་ལྔ།Rin Chen Mutik 25Er Shi Wu Wei Zhen Zhu Wan (TCM)Pearl 25 Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Drungtso, Product Information * Safflower (100 grams) can be substituted** Water Buffalo horn is substituted*** Delphinium brunoniarum is typically used in place of Musk Preparation: Powder and form Pills Function: Settles Wind, Clears Heat,…

Read More Pearl 25 (Mu tig nyer lnga) (Tibetan Medicine)
A ru ra (Chebula) | Ar ga ru (Aloeswood) | Dza ti (Nutmeg) | Gar nag (burnt Pig stool) | Go snyod (Caraway) | Gul nag (Myrrh) | Li shi (Clove) | Ma nu (Inula) | Pho ba ris (Black Pepper) | Pi pi ling (Long Pepper) | Rgya tshos (Lacca) | Rgyam tshwa (Rock Salt) | Ri snying (Hares Heart) | Ru rta (Costus) | Se bru (Pomegranate) | Sga skya (Galangal) | Sgog skya (Garlic) | Shing kun (Asafetida) | Shing tsha (Cinnamon) | Shu dug (Calamus) | Sle tres (Tinospora) | Sman chen (Aconite) | Spos dkar (Frankincense) | Sug smel (Cardamon)

Asafetida 25 (Shing kun nyer lnga) (Tibetan Medicine)
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024January 20, 2026

Shing kun nyer lnga ཤིང་ཀུན་ཉེར་ལྔ་Asafetida 25 Tradition: Tibetan Medicine Source / Author: Instruction Tantra / Men Tsee Kang Herb Name Shing kun (Asafetida)Gar nag (Burnt Pig stool)Brong khrag (Yak heart) **Li shi (Clove)Dza ti (Nutmeg)Shing tsha (Cinnamon)Sga skya (Galangal)Pi pi ling (Long Pepper)Pho ba ris (Black Pepper)Spos dkar (Frankincense)Gul nag (Myrrh)Rgya tshos (Lacca)Shu dug (Calamus)Se…

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Ba sha Ka (Adhatoda) | Bri mog (Onosma) | Cong zhi tskha btul (Calcite) | Ma nu (Inula) | Ru rta (Costus) | Shing mngar (Licorice) | Skyu ru (Emblic Myrobalan)

Blood Medicine 7 (khrag sman bdun pa)
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024January 25, 2026

Khrag sman bdun pa ཁྲག་ སྨན་ བདུན་པ་Blood Medicine 7 Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Preparation: Powder and form Pills. Function: Clears Lung Heat, Stops Cough Use: Cough, fullness and pain of the chest,1. Cough2. Bronchitis3. Lung Fever4. Hoarseness and Sore Throat5. Stops dispersion of Bad Blood into the Lungs Dose: 2 grams, twice daily with…

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'Gron thal (Cowrie Bhasma) | 'Ol mo se (fruit) | (Potash) | (Sodium carbonate) | Bul tog | Gla ba'i rtsi (Musk) | Gser mdog | Ru rta (Costus) | Shu dag (Calamus) | Sman chen (Aconite) | Star bu (Sea Buckthorn) | Ya ba ksha ra | Ze tshwa (Saltpeter)

Greater Universal Women’s Disease Conqueror (Mo nad spyi ‘joms chen mo)
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024January 25, 2026

Mo nad spyi ‘joms chen mo མོ་ནད་སྤྱི་ སྤྱི་འཇོམས་ ཆེན་མོ་Greater Universal Women’s Disease Conqueror Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Men Tsee Kang * Salt extracted from Barley ashes Preparation: Powder and form Pills. Function: Warms the Uterus, Moves the Qi and Blood, Relieves Inflammation Use: “Defeats 1000 Female diseases”1. Amenorrhea2. Dysmenorrhea3. Inflammation and Pain of the…

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A ru ra (Chebulic Myrobalan) | Ba ru ra (Belleric Myrobalan) | Ba sha ka (Malabar nut tree) | Brag zhun (Shilajit) | Ru rta (Costus) | Skyu ru ra (Emblic Myrobalan) | Sles tres (Tinospora) | So ma ra dza | Spos dkar (Frankincense) | Thal ka rdo rje (Cassia seed)

Frankincense 10 (Spos dkar bcu pa) (Tibetan Medicine)
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024January 25, 2026

Spos dkar bcu pa སྤོས་དཀར་བཅུ་པ།Shi Wei Ru Xiang San (TCM)Frankincense 10 Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Preparation: Powder Function: Expels Wind and Damp, clears Heat and Inflammation Use: 1. Wandering Pain or Shooting Pain in the limbs2. Arthralgia associated with Damp3. Arthritis of the extremities4. Joint Swelling and Pain5. Gout6. Rheumatoid Arthritis7 Eczema and other…

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'U su (Coriander seed) | Ar nag (Aloeswood) | Bong dkar (White Aconite) | Bong nag (Black Aconite) | Brag zhun (Shilajit) | Bul tog (Sodium carbonate) | Chu rtsi (Rhubarb) | Cong zhi (Calcite) | Cu gang (Tabasheer) | Dur byid (Spurge) | Dza ti (Nutmeg) | Gi wang (Bezoar) | Gla rtsi (Musk) | Go snyod (Caraway) | Gser gyi me tog | Gu gul nag (Myrrh) | Gur gum (Safflower) | Ka ko la (Greater Cardamon) | Kanda ka ri | Kha ru tsha (Black Salt) | Li shi (Clove) | Ma nu (Inula) | Pho ri (Black Pepper) | Pi pi ling (Long Pepper) | Re lchag (Stellera) | Rgya tshva (Sal Ammoniac) | Rgyam tshva (Rock Salt) | Ru rta (Costus) | Sdig srin (freshwater crab shell) | Se bru (Pomegranate fruit) | Sga (Ginger) | Shing kun (Asafetida) | Shing tsha (Cinnamon) | Shu dag (Calamus) | Sles tres (Tinospora) | Sro lo | Sug smel (Cardamon) | Thar nu (Spurge prepared) | Tig Ta (Swertia) | Tsan dan dkar (White Sandal) | Tsan dan dmar (Red Sandal) | Tsha la (Borax) | Utpal (Blue Poppy)

Pomegranate All Inclusive Pill (Se ‘bru kun ‘dus)
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024January 25, 2026

Se ‘bru kun ‘dus སེ་འབྲུ་ཀུན་འདུས་ Pomegranate All Inclusive Pill Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Men Tsee Kang * Bras sna gsum: Three seeds are A bras (Mangifera indica), Sra bras (Eugenia jambolana), Jam bras (Caesalpinia bonducella)** A byag gnyis: A mix of Pyrethrum tatsiense (A byag gzer ‘joms) and Meconopsis horridula (A byag tsher sngon)*** Ge…

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'U su (Coriander seed) | A ru ra (Chebula) | Ba ru (Belleric) | Ba sha Ka (Adhatoda) | Brag zhun (Shilajit) | Bri mog | Btsod (Madder) | ffl | Gi wan (Bezoar) | Gser Me (Herpetospermum) | Gur gum (Sa | Hong len (Picrorrhiza) | Kan ta ka ri (Rubus) | Li ga dur (Cranesbill) | Ma nu (Inula) | ower | Pri Yang Ku | Pu shel rtse (Dendrobium) | Rgya skyegs (Lacca) | Ru rta (Costus) | Skyu ru (Emblic) | Sle tres (Tinospora) | Spang rtsi | Star bu (Sea Buckthorn) | Tig Ta (Swertia) | Tsan dmar (Red Sandal) | Ut Pal (Blue Lotus)

Emblic 25 (Skyu ru nyer lnga) (Tibetan Medicine)
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024January 25, 2026

Skyu ru nyer lnga སྐྱུ་རུ་ཉེར་ལྔ།Or, Khrag shed snyoms ldan ཁྲག་ཤེད་ སྙོམས་ ལྡན་Emblic 25 Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Men Tsee Kang / Amdo Compendium Preparation: Powder and form Pills. Sometimes used as a powder. Function: Clears Heat and Bile, Moves the Blood, regulates Qi Use: “A general medicine for Blood disorders”“A general medicine that reduces…

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A ru ra (Chebula) | Ar ga ru (Aloeswood) | Btsod (Madder) | Dza ti (Nutmeg) | Gu gul (Bdellium) | Kan ta ka ri (Rubus) | Ko byi la (Nux vomica) prepared | Ma nu (Inula) | Ru rta (Costus) | Sga skya (Galangal) | Sle tres (Tinospora) | Snying zho | Ut Pal (Blue Poppy)

Nux Vomica 13 (Ko byi bcu gsum) (Tibetan Medicine)
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024January 25, 2026

Ko byi bcu gsum ཀོ་བྱི་བཅུ་གསུམ།Nux Vomica 13 Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: * Different sources have provided different amounts. The right column is from “Amdo Compendium”.** Madder juice has been ordered in some texts which is used in sufficient quantity to form pills Preparation: Nux Vomica must be prepared according to Traditional methods. Generally, it…

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