Rubus sp. ཀཎྜ་ཀ་རི་

English name: Raspberry/ Wineberry/ Blackberry

Tibetan name: Ken-dra Ka-ri (ཀཎྜ་ཀ་རི་)

Part used: twigs and stalks (སྡོང་པོ་དང་ཡལ་ཕྲན་)

Taste and potency: sweet, bitter and hot taste (རོ་མངར་ལ་ཁ་ཞིང་ཚ་བ་); sweet post-digestive taste (ཞུ་རྗེས་མངར་བ་); heavy, oily and cooling potency (ནུས་པ་ལྕི་ཞིང་བསིལ་ལ་སྣུམ་པའོ་)

Profound value of Rubus sp. in Tibetan Medicine:

• Balancing the Three Humors (ཉེས་པ་འཁྲུགས་པ་): According to Tibetan Medicine, health is governed by the equilibrium of three vital energies known as Wind (རླུང་), Tripa (མཁྲིས་པ་), and Beken (བད་ཀན་). Raspberry harmonizes these humors, restoring balance, and promoting overall well-being.
• Wind and fever disorders (རླུང་ཚད་): balances blood pressure. Treats various types of headaches including migraines. Good for heart palpitations and rhythm disorders, as well as chest, upper back and neck pains. 
• Immune Support (རིམས་ནད་): Raspberry lowers fever, reduces inflammation, and fortifies the immune system, empowering the body's natural defences against pathogens and ailments. It is especially good for unripped infectious fever (རིམས་ཚད་མ་སྨིན་པ་). It supports the lung function (གློ་ནས་ཀྱི་རིགས་) and helps to expel mucus from the lung (གློ་ལུ་བ་), therefore benefiting such conditions as asthma and bronchitis. 
• Restores vitality. 

According to the Second Tibetan Medicine Tantra (བཤད་པའི་རྒྱུད།):