Tibetan: སྲོ་ལོ་བཞི་ཐང་
Pronunciation: solo zhitang
Wylie: sro lo bzhi thang
Lit.:four-component decoction based on sro lo.
Contents: sro lo, shing mngar, ga dur, rgya skyegs
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1. སྲོ་ལོ (sro lo) - roots Stellaria dichotoma (Buryatian tradition)
2. ཤིང་མངར (shing mngar) - roots Glycyrrhiza uralensis - Chinese liquorice
3. ག་དུར (ga dur) – roots Bergenia crassifolia - Elephant-ears
4. རྒྱ་སྐྱེགས (rgya skyegs) - resin Shellac
Taste: slightly sweet
Nature: slightly cool, without zi-effect (bzi).
Origin: Additional Tantra.
Main indications: treats blood fever (khrag tshad) in lungs, lungs’ pain and improves expectoration.
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) “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.
2) བསོད་ནམས་དོན་གྲུབ “སྨན་སྦྱོར་ལག་ལེན་གྱི་གདམས་པ་མྱོང་གྲུབ་མ།” མི་རིགས་དཔེ་སྐྲུན་ཁང པེ་ཅིན 2000 – 276 p. ISBN: 7-105-03874-8 (Tibetan) – Modern text on Tibetan pharmacology