Tinospora cordifolia སླེ་ཏྲེས

English name: Moonseed

Tibetan name: Le-tre (སླེ་ཏྲེས་)

Part used: twigs (ཡལ་ཕྲན་)

Taste and potency: sweet, bitter and astringent taste (རོ་མངར་ལ་ཁ་ཞིང་བསྐ་བ་); sweet post-digestive taste (ཞུ་རྗེས་མངར་བ་); oily and cooling potency (ནུས་པ་སྣུམ་ལ་བསིལ་བའོ་)

Profound value of Tinospora cordifolia 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་). Moonseed 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་): Moonseed 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་) and old fever (ཚད་པ་རྙིང་པ་).
• Anti-inflammatory Action: is it used for the treatment of arthritis (དྲེག་གྲུམ་) and gout. For redness and swelling of joints (རུས་ཚིགས་དམར་སྐྲངས་ཆགས་). It is very effective in pain management (གཟེར་ཟུག་) and it purifies lymph (ཆུ་སེར་).
• Used for premature aging due to depleted bodily constituents. 

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