Tibetan: བཟི
Pronunciation: zi
Wylie: bzi
Lit.: «intoxication»
Psychoactive effect of some medicines or raw materials, which contain potent ingredients such as aconite and others.
The presence or absence of the zi-effect and its intensity is an important feature of Tibetan medicines. In the description of Tibetan medicines are mentioned four degrees of the zi-effect:
- without zi-effect བཟི་མེད (bzi med);
- weak zi-effect བཟི་ཅུང་ཡོད (bzi cung yod) or ཅུང་བཟི (cung bzi);
- medium zi-effect བཟི་འབྲིང (bzi ‘bring);
- strong zi-effect བཟི་ཆེ (bzi che);