'bras bu sum thang

འབྲས་བུ་སུམ་ཐང
drebu sum tang
'bras bu sum thang

bras-bu-gsum-thang

“Three fruits decoction”
a ru ra, ba ru ra, skyu ru ra

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
astringent to sour
cool, without zi-effect (bzi)
Gyu Shi (rgyud bzhi). Three fruits decoction is mentioned even in Root Tantra as one of main decoctions against Tripa (mkhris pa) disorders.
brings to ripening and and eliminates any rim (rims) and trug ('khrugs) fever diseases whether it fresh or old. Divide bad blood (khrag ngan) from healthy blood (zungs khrag).
use as condensed decoction (bsdus thang). Add 3 cups of water to 1 dosage of herbal formula, boil it on the low heat until 1 cup is remained. Take warm 2-3 times per day.
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IMPORTANT: Tibetan medicine should always be taken only after a consultation with a Tibetan doctor or qualified physician, as usage and dosages differ between patients.


1) ཁྲོ་རུ་ཚེ་རྣམ “གསོ་རིག་རྒྱུད་བཞིའི་འགྲེལ་ཆེན་དྲང་སྲོང་ཞལ་ལུང་།” སི་ཁྲོན་མི་རིགས་དཔེ་སྐྲུན་ཁང 2001, vv. 6 ISBN 7-5409-2535-3 (Tibetan) - A Great Comment on Four Tantras (rGyud bzhi) written by Troru Tsenam.

2) “སྨན་སྦྱོར་གྱི་ནུས་པ་ཕྱོགས་བསྡུས་ཕན་བདེའི་ལེགས་བཤད།” བོད་གཞུང་སྨན་རྩིས་ཁང Dharamsala. 1995. pp. 118 ISBN: 81-86419-05-5. (Tibetan) - Classical indications for remedies.