Tibetan: སེ་འབྲུ་དྭངས་གནས
Pronunciation: sedru dangney
Wylie: se 'bru dwangs gnas
Lit.: «Pomegranate Maintaining Essence»
Other names: དྭངས་གནས (dwangs gnas), དྭངས་མ་གནས་འཇོགས (dwangs ma gnas ‘jogs), སེ་འབྲུ་དྭངས་མ་གནས་འཇོགས (se ‘bru dwangs ma gnas ‘jog)
Contents: se ‘bru, shing tsha, pi pi ling, sug smel, gur gum
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1.སེ་འབྲུ (se ‘bru) - bot. Punica granatum - Pomegranate
2.ཤིང་ཚ (shing tsha) - bot. Cinnamomum cassia - Cinnamon
3.པི་པི་ལིང (pi pi ling) - bot. Piper longum – Long pepper
4.སུག་སྨེལ (sug smel) - bot. Elettaria cardamomum – Green Cardamom
5.གུར་གུམ (gur gum) - bot. Carthamus tinctorius – Safflower
Taste: hot to sour
Nature: mild warm, without zi-effect (bzi med)
Origin: Final Tantra
Main Indications: restores the metabolic heat (me drod) when heat and cold are in a conflict, cleanses lumens of the channels from the mucus, settles the nutritional essence (dwangs ma) into its own place and restores the body's tissues (lus zungs bdun). In other words, this medicine normalizes metabolism and strengthens the immune system. It's also useful against coldness of kidneys, drumbu (grum bu) - various joint diseases and chuser (chu ser) disorders.
Instructions: this formula can be made as powder or pills. Average dose is a half of teaspoon of powder or 3 pills.
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) “རྒྱུན་མཁོའི་བོད་སྨན་གྱི་ཕན་ཡོན་ལག་དེབ” བོད་གཞུང་སྨན་རྩིས་ཁང Dharamsala. 1996. pp. 121 ISBN: 81-86419-06-3. - (Tibetan) Indications for common applied remedies.