donderdag 6 maart 2014

Making Tibetan medicine with Amchi Tsering Zangcho

Today I had the great fortune to be able to give lama Tsering Zangcho a hand while making his medicine. He is the doctor of Chatral Rinpoche and some say he makes the best medicine in nepal. We also made some mendrup for a -Longchen Nyingtik- Dukngal rangdrol mendrup .



First we had to clean the medicine, take out all the dirt and stones and so on. Then some ingredients had to be sliced into smaller pieces, for example pieces of the trunk of the red and white sandal wood tree. Some ingredients are quite well known, like nutmeg, cardamom, clove, kakola, seeds of pomegranate, and saffron. But others, like certain flowers or resins from trees, I and probably most other people have never heard of before. Then finally we put all the ingredients back in the bags, to take them to the grinder. Once they are grinned and mixed they are made into pills.

something that looked like old composted tree bark

certain tree barks 

different ingredients for Dukngal Rangdrol pills


some unknown roots of a plant 


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