བོད་ཀྱི་སྨན་རྫས་རིག་པའི་ཚིག་མཛོད་གཡུ་ཐོག་སྔོ་འབུམ་དགོངས་རྒྱན།Dictionary of Tibetan Materia Medica is the first diictionary of its kind. All the entries are arranged in Tibetan alphabetical order which will enablethe readers to find the names of medicinal ingredients easily. In this English version the translator and editor, Dr. Yonten Gyatso, has given Latin names of almost all the medicines. Most of the materials are compliled from Sel gon sel phrem, the most famous text on Tibetan pharmacopoeia, and from Rin chen khruns dpe, one of the oldest and most reliable texts. Therefore, for the non-Tibetan readers this dictionary presents materials from the above texts which are translated for the first time into English. This dictionary, with its many special features, will be of immense use and value for students, research scholars, doctors and pharmacologists of Tibetan medicine, and for ethno-botanists. |
Contents
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Section 2 | 17 |
Section 3 | 29 |
Section 4 | 53 |
Section 5 | 57 |
Section 6 | 63 |
Section 7 | 71 |
Section 8 | 73 |
Section 14 | 203 |
Section 15 | 209 |
Section 16 | 213 |
Section 17 | 215 |
Section 18 | 219 |
Section 19 | 227 |
Section 20 | 231 |
Section 21 | 239 |
Section 9 | 79 |
Section 10 | 89 |
Section 11 | 95 |
Section 12 | 175 |
Section 13 | 193 |
Section 22 | 251 |
Section 23 | 259 |
Section 24 | 271 |
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Aconitum Acorus gramineus animacules Aquilaria sinensis ba'i bdud rtsi beneficial Benth bile bitter in taste brag bras byin C.B. Clarke calcite called Carum carvi chen Cinnamomum camphora Clematis tangutica collective name colour Commiphora mukul cool in power Corydalis cures poisoning Diels dkar dmar dries Elsholtzia fever Franch Gaertn Gentiana grows gser Hand-Mazz hot in taste inferior type khra khrag khrom lcags ldum leaves lymph fluid medicine mild in power mkhris Oxytropis pa'i phlegm phren Pterocephalus rgod rgya rgyal Rheum officinale root Royle rtsa ba rtsi Rubus niveus Saussurea secret name seeds sgog śin skya skyes sman smug snon spos stalk sweet in taste Swertia chirayita synonym tanguticum Maxim Terminalia bellerica Terminalia chebula Terminalia chebula Retz Thoms Thunb Tibetan tibetica Translated tsha tsher tshva wind disorders yellow
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