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Gtso bo nyer lnga  གཙོ་བོ་བྱེར་ལྔ།
Or, Ba glo nyer lnga 
བ་གློ་ཉེར་ལྔ་
Principle 25
Or, Cow Lungs 25

Tradition:
Tibetan

Source / Author:

Herb Name
Tsan dkar (Sandalwood)
Cu gang (Tabasheer)
Gur gum (Safflower)
Hong len (Picrorrhiza)

Ba Sha Ka (Adhatoda)
Bong nga dkar po (White Aconite)
Tig Ta (Swertia)
Gi wan (Bezoar)
A ru ra (Chebula)
Ba ru (Belleric)
Skyu ru (Emblic)
Ma nu (Inula)
Sle tres (Tinospora)
Kan ta ka ri (Rubus)
Sga skya (Galangal)
Star bu (Sea Buckthorn)
Rgun brum (Raisins)
A krong (Sandwort)
Ga dur (Geranium)
Ba glo (Cow lungs prepared) *
Sro lo dmar po (Rhodiola)
Shing mngar (Licorice)
Spa yag rtsa ba
Zi ra dkar po (Cumin)
Spang rgyan dkar po
Bdud rtsi lo ma **

Latin
Santalum album
Bambusa textiles
Carthamus tinctorius
Picrorrhiza / Lagotis
Adhatoda vasica
Aconitum heterophyllum
Swertia chirata

Bezoar
Terminalia chebula
Terminalia bellerica
Phyllanthus emblica
Inula racemosa
Tinospora cordifolia
Rubus phoenicolasius
Kaempferia galanga
Hippophae rhamnoides
Vitis vinifera
Arenaria fastucoides

Geranium wallichianum 
Bos Pulmo
Rhodiola crenulata
Glycyrrhiza glabra

Lancea tibetica
Cuminum cyminum
Gentiana algida
Aconitum spp. leaf

Amount
75 grams
100 grams
70 grams
70 grams
70 grams
70 grams
70 grams
20 grams
130 grams
80 grams
100 grams
70 grams
100 grams
150 grams
50 grams
70 grams
70 grams
70 grams
60 grams
70 grams
100 grams
150 grams
120 grams
50 grams
70 grams

80 grams

* Cow lungs are prepared by removing membranes, washing well, then drying. Some sources list Sro lo dkar po (Pegaeophyton scapiflorum) instead of Cow Lungs.
** some sources say a mix of the leaf and root of Sman Chen (Aconitum ferox)

Preparation:
Pills or Tablets of 500mg each

Function:
Stops Cough, Clears Phlegm-Heat, Strengthen the Lungs

Use:
Cough, wheezing, rapid breathing with reddish-yellow sputum, fever, chest pain
"especially good to help with fever of the Lungs and Pneumonia" (Buryat)

1. Excess Coughing with yellow sputum, or sputum with blood or pus
2. Lung Fever
3. Chronic Bronchitis
4. Breathlessness
5. Chronic Lung Infection
6. Pnuemonia
7. Pulmonary Tuberculosis
8. Hemoptysis
9. Chest pain
10. Blocked Sinuses
from excess Heat

Dose:
1–2 pills (500mg–1 gram) three times daily.

Cautions:
None noted

Modifications:
1. Pegaeophyton can replace Cow Lungs. Fox Lungs were preferred in the Western Tradition and were used for similar indications.

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This formula uses prepared Cow Lungs to strengthen the Lungs, reminiscent of the use of Fox Lungs in the West. It also uses White Sandalwood as the primary medicine which is also commonly used for Lung diseases in Western formula. Also worth noting is the use of Inula and Raisins and Lung tonics.
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