The illustrations are dedicated to the medical components of plant origin (trees, herbs) and their use with different diseases.
The sheet features the medical components of plant origin, namely herbs that grow at plain territories. The colorful illustrations begin with the image of a pine tree and its barrois keeping the intercartilaginous and interosseal ‘white water’. Different kinds of sal ammoniac used for curing the poisoning and cleaning the vessels are shown. Rock-salt helps in case of many different diseases, for instance, with gastric indigestion. Different salts help in case of burping and gastric flatulence, they may cure the wounds and clean the blood.
Further follows a big group of medical herbs called ‘arura’ (myrobalan). Tibetan medicine regards the fruits of this herb to be the most beneficial of all Earth’s means. As it’s told in tractate, ‘arura’ is the king of all medicaments. Its trunk is big, the leaves are green and solid, the flowers are yellow, the fruits can be black or yellow and have all six tastes. The fruits of ‘arura’ (myrobalan) can not only cure all diseases, but have the vivifying qualities that produce the body warmth and activate digestion. The ‘victorious arura’ is believed to be the best one. Its fruits along with their effective medical qualities can attract happiness just like the ‘jewel making wishes come true’. Other kinds of myrobalan cure the wounds, clean the body, cure the diseases of eyes and the ones brought by the evil spirits. Its fruits resembling the heart help in case of heart diseases. Some of ‘arura’ fruits look like the human kidney so they can cure kidney diseases.
The classification of herbs finishes with pointing out the medical qualities of Himalayan oak’s acorn which cures painful diarrhea. Other herbaceous plants shown at the sheet can also be used for healing the inner organs’ fever (liver and cholecystis, stomach and liver, fever of blood and bile).
The sheet features the medical components of plant origin, namely herbs that grow at plain territories. The colorful illustrations begin with the image of a pine tree and its barrois keeping the intercartilaginous and interosseal ‘white water’. Different kinds of sal ammoniac used for curing the poisoning and cleaning the vessels are shown. Rock-salt helps in case of many different diseases, for instance, with gastric indigestion. Different salts help in case of burping and gastric flatulence, they may cure the wounds and clean the blood.
Further follows a big group of medical herbs called ‘arura’ (myrobalan). Tibetan medicine regards the fruits of this herb to be the most beneficial of all Earth’s means. As it’s told in tractate, ‘arura’ is the king of all medicaments. Its trunk is big, the leaves are green and solid, the flowers are yellow, the fruits can be black or yellow and have all six tastes. The fruits of ‘arura’ (myrobalan) can not only cure all diseases, but have the vivifying qualities that produce the body warmth and activate digestion. The ‘victorious arura’ is believed to be the best one. Its fruits along with their effective medical qualities can attract happiness just like the ‘jewel making wishes come true’. Other kinds of myrobalan cure the wounds, clean the body, cure the diseases of eyes and the ones brought by the evil spirits. Its fruits resembling the heart help in case of heart diseases. Some of ‘arura’ fruits look like the human kidney so they can cure kidney diseases.
The classification of herbs finishes with pointing out the medical qualities of Himalayan oak’s acorn which cures painful diarrhea. Other herbaceous plants shown at the sheet can also be used for healing the inner organs’ fever (liver and cholecystis, stomach and liver, fever of blood and bile).
