Tibetan: འབྲས་བུ་སུམ་ཐང
Pronunciation: drebu sum tang
Wylie: 'bras bu sum thang
Lit.: “Three fruits decoction”
Contents: a ru ra, ba ru ra, skyu ru ra
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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
Taste: astringent to sour
Nature: cool, without zi-effect (bzi)
Origin: Gyu Shi (rgyud bzhi). Three fruits decoction is mentioned even in Root Tantra as one of main decoctions against Tripa (mkhris pa) disorders.
Main Indications: 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).
Instructions: 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.
Cautions: none
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.