Commiphora mukul གུ་གུལ

English name: Myrrh

Tibetan name: Gu-gul (གུ་གུལ་)

Part used: resin (ཚི་བ་)

Taste and potency: astringent and bitter taste (རོ་ཁ་ལ་བསྐ་བ་); bitter post-digestive taste (ཞུ་རྗེས་ཁ་བ་); cooling and blunt potency (ནུས་པ་བསིལ་ལ་རྟུལ་བའོ་)

Profound value of Commiphora mukul in Tibetan Medicine:

• Infectious diseases (གཉན་རིམས་) - antiviral and antibacterial action. Effective for the treatment and prevention of colds and flu (ཆམ་རིམས་), angina, epidemic diseases. It strengthens the immune system and enhances the body's defences. Used for the treatment of diphtheria or severe throat swelling (ལྷོག་པ་). Effectively reduces fevers (གཉན་ཚད་རྒྱས་པ་), inflammations and pain due to infections. 
• Lymph disorders (ཆུ་སེར་ནད་): Myrrh is used to treat increased amount of lymph (lymphostasis), swelling of the joints and limbs. It cleanses and dries up "bad" lymph. Used for the treatment of leprosy (མཛེ་ནད་) and severe pain/ colicky pain (གཟེར་ཟུག་ལངས་པ་). 
• Wind ( རླུང་ནད་) - Myrrh has a calming effect on the central nervous system. Helps to get rid of insomnia, depression, apathy, tinnitus. Used for the treatment of Wind disease called La-reng (བརླ་རེངས་) and paralysis.  

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