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Formulas

Three Fruits

འབྲས་བུ་གསུམ
drebu sum
'bras bu gsum

three-fruits

triphalā
«three fruits»
Three fruits is a collective name of
1. ཨ་རུ་ར (a ru ra)– bot. Terminalia Chebula – Yellow Myrobalan or Chebulic Myrobalan
2. བ་རུ་ར (ba ru ra)– bot. Terminalia Bellirica – Beleric or bastard myrobalan
3. སྐྱུ་རུ་ར (skyu ru ra)– bot. Phyllanthus emblica – emblic myrobalan or Indian gooseberry
These three fruits also are known in Aurveda as a «triphalā». Three fruits are produced by Padma AG under the tradename Padma Hepaten®.
In Tibetan Medicine Sowa Rigpa three fruits can be used as a part of multi-component composition or separately. As an independent means they are applied mostly as three fruits decoction ('bras bu sum thang) or three fruits medical butter ('bras gsum sman mar). It also can be used as a powder.


1) བོད་ལུགས་གསོ་རིག་ཚིག་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ། Pecin, 2006, pp. 1054, ill ISBN 7-105-07607-0 (Tibetan) Comprehensive modern dictionary of Tibetan Medicine terminology.

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