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Calcined Boar Feces, Gar nag གར་ནག

'Black Camphor'
Gar nag (Tibetan Medicine)


Zoological name:
Sus scrofa and related species

Parts used:
Carbonised Boar dung

Temperature & Taste:
Cold, dry. Pungent

Uses:
1. Clears Heat, Resists Toxin:
-Septic disorders
-Infectious and Epidemic Fevers
-Tumors from Bile
-also regarded as an antidote to poison in the West

2. Promotes Digestion, Clears Heat and Damp:
-Indigestion
-Diarrhea and Dysentery (West)

3. Clears Damp, Settles Wind:
-taken in wine for Sciatica (West)

4. Stops Bleeding:
-Spitting of Blood and other types of bleeding (West: Schroder, Salmon)
-Menorrhagia (TCM)


Dose:
Ashed dung was taken in a dose of half dram in the West.

Main Combinations:
1. Indigestion, abdominal pain and distention, Bile diseases with stomach ache, indigestion, poor appetite, bitter taste and yellowing of the eyes and skin, Calcined Pig Stool, Pomegranate seed, Cinnamon, Long Pepper, Lesser Cardamon, Chebula and Rock Salt (as in Black Camphor 10 of Tibetan Medicine
2. Indigestion with bitter taste, yellowing of eyes, and epigastric pain; Calcined Pig Stool, Pomegranate seed, hebula, Herpetospermum, Shilajit (as in Golden 5 of Tibetan Medicine)

Major Formulas:
Black Camphor 10 (Gar nag 10) (Tibetan Medicine)
Golden 5 (Gser mdog 5) (Tibetan Medicine)
Asafetida 25 (Shin kun nyer lnga) (Tibetan Medicine)

Cautions:
None noted

Main Preparations used: