Rin chen ril nag chen mo རིན་ཆེན་རིལ་རིལ་ནག་ཆེན་མོ་
Or Rin chen grang sbyor ril nag chen mo རིན་ཆེན་གྲང་སྦྱོར་རིལ་ནག་ཆེན་མོ་
Or, Rin chen grang sbyor རིན་ཆེན་གྲང་སྦྱོར་
Rin chen drangjor rilnak chenmo
Renqing Changjue (Chinese)
Great Cold Compound Precious Black Pill

Tradition:
Tibetan
Source / Author:
Written by Nagarjuna, introduced into Tibet by O rgyan pa Rinchen dpal (1229–1309)
The following version is taken from Men Tsee Kang.
Note:
This, more than any other of the Tibetan Precious Pills contains a number of unusual and exotic medicines, including a number of animal parts. Some of the names used are quite unusual and maybe “Secret” names for medicines. Therefore, it has been difficult to give the entire recipe, and there is uncertainty with the identification of some of the medicines.
Herb Name | Latin | Amount |
|---|---|---|
Refined Mercury Sulphide | 4000 grams | |
Lepidiolite | 1000 grams | |
Aurum | 400 grams | |
Argentum | 500 grams | |
Cuprum | 300 grams | |
Ferrum | 300 grams | |
Aeris | 300 grams | |
Aereus | 300 grams | |
Calcium oxide | 300 grams | |
Stannum | 300 grams | |
Khams brgyad * | a mixture (see below) | 240 grams |
Ferrum prepared | 280 grams | |
Succinum | 310 grams | |
Corallum | 920 grams | |
Khyung skyugs (Jasper) | Jaspidem | 50 grams |
Conchylia | 300 grams | |
Rubinus | 50 grams | |
Lazurite | 450 grams | |
Callainus | 840 grams | |
Crystallus | 50 grams | |
Adamas | 50 grams | |
Smaragdus | 50 grams | |
Saphirus | 80 grams | |
Granatum | 50 grams | |
Chu dwangs nor bu (prepared) | Uncertain | 50 grams |
Spug ** | Uncertain | 50 grams |
Margarita | 80 grams | |
Mater Margarita | 80 grams | |
Calaminaris | 200 grams | |
Ammonitum | 100 grams | |
iron oxyhydroxide | 100 grams | |
iron oxide | 100 grams | |
Magnetitum | 100 grams | |
Calcitum | 100 grams | |
Mercuric sulphide | 100 grams | |
Limonitum | 100 grams | |
Sodium tetraborate | 100 grams | |
Cyprea | 100 grams | |
Santalum album | 100 grams | |
Aquillaria agallocha | 100 grams | |
Elettaria cardamomum | 600 grams | |
Eugenia caryophyllus | 600 grams | |
Bambusa textiles | 600 grams | |
Carthamus tinctorius | 600 grams | |
Myristica fragrans | 600 grams | |
Bezoar | 20 grams | |
Moschus | 30 grams | |
Strychnos nux vomica | 250 grams | |
Camphora | 50 grams | |
Aconitum heterophyllum | 700 grams | |
Aconitum ferox | 700 grams | |
Avonitum fischeri | 700 grams | |
Phytolacca acinosa | 700 grams | |
Dpa ser | Veratrilla spp. | 700 grams |
Dpa rgod | Phytolacca spp. | 700 grams |
Yu gu shing khanda | Senecio solidagineus | 700 grams |
Corydalis spp. | 700 grams | |
Corydalis yanhusuo | 700 grams | |
Yo god | uncertain | 700 grams |
Char nyung khanda | uncertain | 700 grams |
Gentiana urnula | 700 grams | |
Adiantum pedatum | 700 grams | |
Delphinium brunonianum | 700 grams | |
Corallodiscus kingionus | 700 grams | |
Byi’u la phug | Torularia glandulosa | 700 grams |
Oxytropis spp. | 700 grams | |
Fritillaria delavayi | 700 grams | |
Gentiana algida | 700 grams | |
Gentiana robusta | 700 grams | |
Sapindus mukorossi | 500 grams | |
Fraxinus rhynchophylla | 700 grams | |
Cornu Rhinoceri | 700 grams | |
Rma bya’i mdong thig (Peacock) | Pavo | 100 grams |
Sgang thur (Porcupine ?) | uncertain | 800 grams |
Stag gi sma ra (Tiger part) *** | Panthera tigris | 10 grams |
Bu mo stag lo pa’i gri mchin **** | uncertain | 800 grams |
Skyes dar grir shi ba’i lag nya | uncertain | 20 grams |
Sha ba’i tshil (Deer fat) | Cervus pinguis | 10 grams |
Seng ge’i tskhil (Lion Fat) | Panthera leo pinguis | 10 grams |
Stag gi ‘o ma (Tiger part) | Panthera tigris | 10 grams |
‘Bri sha (Yak meat) | Bos grunniens | 50 grams |
Mi rta khyi gsum gyi phyag tshan ***** | uncertain | 300 grams |
Yungs dkar (Mustard seed) ****** | Brassica campetris | 240 grams |
Dpal gang | uncertain | 100 grams |
Berberis aristata | 700 grams | |
Rosa laevigata | 700 grams | |
Myricaria squamosa | 700 grams | |
Srad nag | Oxytropis subpodooba | 50 grams |
Terminalia chebula | 1000 grams | |
Asphaltum | 700 grams | |
Khyung sder smug po | Saussurea stella | 500 grams |
Khyung sder dkar po | Saussurea katochaetoides | 500 grams |
Pu shel rtse | Caelogyne occultata | 500 grams |
Hypecoum leptocarpum | 500 grams | |
Meconopsis torquata | 500 grams | |
Rims de ba sngo chung | uncertain | 500 grams |
Pterocephalus hookeri | 500 grams | |
Sgong thog | Erysimum altaicum | 500 grams |
Corydalis nepalensis | 500 grams | |
Artemisia santolinifolia | 500 grams | |
Coptis spp. | 500 grams | |
Herpetospermum pedunculosum | 500 grams | |
Andrographis paniculata | 250 grams | |
Saxifraga umbellulata | 250 grams | |
Corydalis meifolia | 500 grams |
* Khams brgyad: equal parts of Chu skyur rdo (Actinolite), Lhang tsher nag po (Black Mica), Gser rdo (Marcasite), Ba bla (Orpiment), Khab len (Magnetite), Pha bang long bu (Pyrite), Ldong ros (Realgar) and Dngul rdo (Hematite).
** Spug, a type of stone, said to be cat’s eye stone, white coral or agate, but it is also said to look like ice.
*** Stag gi sma ra, possibly Tiger whiskers (or flesh)
**** processed Bu mo stag lo pa’i gri mchin can be substituted with processed Phag ma gsar gyi mchin pa (800 grams)
***** Mi rta khyi gsum gyi phyag tshan, the feces of newborn human babies, horses and dogs, each of which are separately subject to closed firing.
****** Yung dkar (Mustard seed) “which laid for twelve years and which were not touched by women”
Preparation:
Powder and form Pills
Function:
Strengthens the Body, Nourishes Essence, Balances Humors, Resists Poison
Use:
“For all 404 Diseases”
All untreatable diseases, or diseases treated unsuccessfully with other medicines.
“the indications of this pill are limitless”
“when prescribed for a healthy person, they will improve their health, clarify their senses, strengthen blood vessels, bones, etc.”
1. All Poisons (Chemical, Environmental, Food Poison)
2. Aconite poisoning
3. Venomous Bites
4. Contagious Fever / Acute Infectious Diseases
5. Chronic fever
6. Allergies
7. Pain in the stomach and intestine caused by food poisoning and other poisons
8. Gastroenteritis
9. Brown Phlegm (Bad kan smug po)
10. Internal Abscesses
11. Leprosy and other obstinate Skin Diseases
12. Ulcers on the Head, Body or Limbs
13. Three stages of Edema
14. Blood diseases
15. Nerve diseases
16. Arthritis, Rheumatism
17. Severe Debility, weakness due to chronic illness
18. General Health tonic, strengthens major Organs and 7 Bodily Tissues
19. When taken in health they increase Essence
20. Strengthening Tonic for the Elderly
Dose:
The method of taking it is as for other Pracious Pills.
Before using this medicine, a “gathering” (preparing) medicine is generally recommended. Thang chen nyer lnga is most used. If this cannot be taken on the night before taking, take a decoction made of 7 seeds of Sichuan Pepper.
One pill is taken as a dose with warm water
After taking, the patient should go to bed and sweat for 1 hour. After sweating, close the pores by taking Butter (as much as an egg yolk, or a little Bear Bile, or an infusion of Saffron.
Cautions:
1. Avoid overdose
2. Not used daily on an extended basis
3. Not used during Pregnancy
Modifications:
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