English name: Caraway
Tibetan name: Go-nyod (གོ་སྙོད་)
Part used: seeds (འབྲས་བུ་)
Taste and potency: hot, astringent and bitter taste (རོ་ཁ་ལ་ཚ་ཞིང་བསྐ་བ་); bitter post-digestive taste (ཞུ་རྗེས་ཁ་བ་); balanced and oily potency (ནུས་པ་སྙོམས་ལ་སྣུམ་པའོ་)
Profound value of Carum carvi in Tibetan Medicine:
- Fever/inflammation and Wind mixed disorders ( རླུང་ཚད་ལྡན་པའི་ནད་): balances blood pressure. Treats various types of headaches including migraines. Relieves tachycardia, heart palpitations and rhythm disorders. Relieves heart inflammations ( རྙིང་ཚད་).
- Beken disorders ( བད་ཀན་གྱི་ནད་): imbalance of water and earth in the body. Chronic "cold" disorders. Indigestion, no appetite ( དང་ག་འགག་པ་).
- Eye disorders ( མིག་ནད་): Caraway is also valued in Tibetan Medicine for its benefits to ocular health, believed to strengthen vision and promote eye health through its antioxidant properties and nutritional content. It is also used for initial stages of cataract and various eye infections.
- Antidotal properties ( དུག་ནད་): Traditional Tibetan Medicine recognizes caraway as a potential antidote to poisoning, with historical references suggesting its use in detoxification rituals and medicinal preparations aimed at counteracting toxins in the body.
- Dried caraway powder wrapped in cloth and heated in sesame oil, when applied on different Wind points, instantly relieves disorders associated with Wind.
According to the Second Tibetan Medicine Tantra (བཤད་པའི་རྒྱུད།):
།གོ་སྙོད་རླུང་ཚད་དུག་དང་མིག་ནད་སེལ།
Go-nyod cures fever associated with Wind, is an antidote against poison and ophthalmic disorders.
Present in Daknang formulas:
- DAKNANG 1
- DAKNANG 2
- DAKNANG 15
References:
- The Tibetan Art of Healing by Ian A. Baker
- Fundamentals of Tibetan Medicine by Thinley Gyatso
- Healing with Form, Energy, and Light by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
- Tibetan Medicine and Other Holistic Health Care Systems edited by Charles Leslie
- A Handbook of Tibetan Medicinal Plants by Dr. Tsering Dorjee Dekhang (MD)
- Tibetan Medicinal Plants by Dr. Tenzin Dakpa
- Essentials of Tibetan Traditional Medicine by Thinley Gyatso and Chris Hakim
- བོད་ཀྱི་གསོ་རིག་དང་ཨ་ཡུར་ཝེ་དྷ་ཀྲུང་དབྱིའི་སྨན་གཞུང་བཅས་ལས་བསྟན་པའི་སྐྱེ་དངོས་སྨན་རྫས་ཀྱི་དཔར་རིས་དང་ལག་ལེན་གཅེས་བཏུས་བློ་གསར་རིག་པའི་སྒོ་འབྱེད་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།། by Dr. Tsultrim Kalsang (Men-Tsee-Khang)
- ༄༅།།བོད་ཀྱི་གསོ་བ་རིག་པའོ་རྒྱུད་བཞི་ལས་རྩ་བའི་རྒྱུད་དང་བཤད་པའི་རྒྱུད་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།། The Root Tantra and the Explanatory Tantra by Men-Tsee-Khang publisher