Herb Combinations
As part of Tibetan Herbology, it has been observed that certain herb combination create an even more powerful potency than individual herbs. Here is a list of common Herb combinations, their name and function.
Most of these herb combinations can be found in:
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Gyatso T. & C. Hakim. 2010. Essentials of Tibetan Traditional Medicine. Berkeley California, USA: North Atlantic Books
Zangpo Druk
བཟང་པོ་དྲུག་
Six Excellent Drugs
Contains herbs that target the five major solid organs. A mix of hot and cold herbs that balance all 3 Nyepas.
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Dzati | ཛ་ཏི། |
Lishi | ལི་ཤི། |
Chugang | ཅུ་གང། |
Gurkum | གུར་གུམ། |
Sugmel | སུག་སྨེལ། |
Kakola | ཀ་ཀོ་ལ། |
Zangpo Zhi
བཟང་པོ་བཞི་
Four Excellent Drugs
See Zangpo Druk with focus on warming.
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Zangpo Sum
བཟང་པོ་ གསུམ་
Three Excellent Drugs
See Zangpo Druk with focus on warming.
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Sil Zhi
བསིལ་བཞི་
Four Cooling Drugs
See Zangpo Druk with focus on cooling.
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Chugang | ཅུ་གང། |
Gurkum | གུར་གུམ། |
Lishi | ལི་ཤི། |
Sugmel | སུག་སྨེལ། |
Sil Sum
བསིལ་གསུམ་
Three Cooling Drugs
See Zanpo Druk with focus on cooling.
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Tsawa Sum (hot)
ཚ་བ་གསུམ་
Three Hot Drugs
Treats cold disorders (Beken) and improves appetite.
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Tsawa Nga (hot)
ཚ་བ་ལྔ་
Five Hot Drugs
Treats cold disorders (Beken), improves appetite and increases digestive heat.
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Drebu Sum
འབྲས་བུ་གསུམ་
Three Fruits
Treats fever. Separates pure from diseased blood. Balances Loong. Improves chronic fatigue and fever.
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Tsawa Nga (root)
རྩ་བ་ལྔ་
Five Roots
Rejuvination, treats Loong imbalances. Improves digestion, physical vigor and kidney heat. Good to replenish weakened bodily constituents (e.g. elderly).
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Trena Sum
འབྲས་སྣ་གསུམ་
Three Seeds
Warms the Kidneys.
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Chuser Men Sum
ཆུ་སེར་སྨན་གསུམ་
Lymph Three
Helps with Chuser (lymph) disorders. Difficult to digest.
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Tigta Sum
ཏིག་ཏ་གསུམ་
Three Bitters
Lower fever due to Tripa and Blood or liver/gallbladder.
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Mar Sum
དམར་གསུམ་
Three Reds
Treats fever in the blood and lungs and removes kidney heat.
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Mar Zhi
དམར་བཞི་
Four Reds
Treats fever in the blood and lungs and removes kidney heat.
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Tsenden Nyi
ཙན་དན་གཉིས་
Two Sandalwoods
Treats moderate fevers.
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Tsenden Karpo | ཙན་དན་དཀར་པོ། |
Tsenden Marpo | ཙན་དན་མར་པོ། |
Shingchog Sum
ཤིང་མཆོག་སུམ་
Three Precious Woods
Treats moderate fevers and also Loong in the heart.
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Agar Rig Sum
ཨ་གར་རིགས་གསུམ་
Three Eagle Woods
Similar to Agaru.
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Indra Zhi
ཨིན་དྲ་བཞི་
Indra Four
Cooling combination for internal organs. As part of Gabur 25, relieves fever and inflammation in hollow organs.
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Chanyam Zhi
ཆ་མཉམ་བཞི་
Balancing Four
Foundational herbs for treating cold (Beken) disorder.
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Gugul Nyi
གུ་གུལ་གཉིས་
Two Myrrhs
Treat Chuser disorders.
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Zira Nyi
ཟི་ར་གཉིས་
Two Cumins
Support the stomach, improve appetite and increase digestive heat.
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Manu Zhi
མ་ནུ་བཞི་
Elecampane Four
Treat recently acquired fever, gather/ripen contagious fever or to make hidden fever manifest. Also treats Beken, Beken Mugpo, pain caused by blood disorders and void fever.
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Sedru Zhipa
སེ་འབྲུ་བཞི་པ་
Pomegranate 4
Increase digestive heat
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Sedru Zhipa 1
སེ་འབྲུ་བཞི་པ་༡་
Pomegranate 4, variation 1
Increase digestive heat
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Sedru Zhipa 2
སེ་འབྲུ་བཞི་པ་༢་
Pomegranate 4, variation 2
Increase digestive heat. Support liver.
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Sedru Ngapa
སེ་འབྲུ་ལྔ་པ་
Pomegranate 5
Increase digestive heat
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Sedru Dangma Nejog
སེ་འབྲུ་དྭངས་མ་གནས་འཇོག་
Pomegranate Sanctuary
Increase digestive heat. Support liver.
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Tswana Sum
ཚྭ་སྣ་གསུམ་
Three Salts
Treat Loong and Beken imbalances and improve digestion
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Sedru Zhipa 3
སེ་འབྲུ་བཞི་པ༣་
Pomegranate 4, variation 3
Increase digestive heat. Support liver.
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