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Zi-effect

བཟི
zi
bzi
«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:

  1. without zi-effect བཟི་མེད (bzi med);
  2. weak zi-effect བཟི་ཅུང་ཡོད (bzi cung yod) or ཅུང་བཟི (cung bzi);
  3. medium zi-effect བཟི་འབྲིང (bzi ‘bring);
  4. strong zi-effect བཟི་ཆེ (bzi che);
In general medicines with zi-effect (especially strong or medium) are not appointed to young children, pregnant and lactating women and with caution – to elderly patients.

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