Ferula asafoetida ཤིང་ཀུན་

English name: Asafoetida

Tibetan name: Shin-kun (ཤིང་ཀུན་)

Part used: resin (ཚི་བ་)

Taste and potency: hot and bitter taste (རོ་ཁ་ལ་ཚ་བ་); bitter post-digestive taste (ཞུ་རྗེས་ཁ་བ་); warming, light, oily and dry potency (ནུས་པ་ཡང་ཞིང་དྲོ་ལ་སྣུམ་ཞིང་སྐམ་པའོ་)

Profound value of Ferula asafoetida in Tibetan Medicine:

• Wind in the heart (སྙིང་རླུང་གི་ནད་): Tibetan Medicine there is such a term as "Wind in the heart". It means that Wind or energy instead of travelling in proper channels, goes to the heart and disturbs its functions. It causes overexcitement of nervous system and gives symptoms that are related to both heart and mind. Such as, heaviness in the chest, tremble, palpitations, dizziness. Fear, panic attacks, phobic syndromes with cardiological symptoms, delusional perceptions, insomnia, depression.
• Improves digestion (མེ་དྲོད་): Asafoetida stimulates "digestive fire", aiding in better absorption of nutrients. It relieves symptoms of acute indigestion (ཟས་མི་འཇུ་བ་), such as abdominal bloating and distention ( ཁོག་པ་སྦོས་བརྒྱངས་བྱེད་པ་), and improves body heat (དྲོད་སྐྱེད་). 
• Anti-parasitic properties ( སྲིན་ནད་): Asafoetida is traditionally used in Tibetan Medicine to expel intestinal worms and parasites, promoting gastrointestinal health.

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