Herbal Compresses According to Tibetan Medicine
Published in Best of TTM Journal , 2018
In Tibetan medicine it is said, “Without Wind, disease cannot grow, spread, harden or arise”, therefore in treatment of lumps, cysts, tumors and any abnormal growths, if you control the Wind, then you stop the spread and increase of these disorders. Hor me and Dugs are Tibetan external therapies which are described in the phyima rgyud – the Final Tantra of Yuthog Yonten Gonpo’s great medical compendium, the Four Tantras (Rgyud bzhi). Hor me is a type of hot compress, whereas the term Dugs is used to cover a wide variety of both hot and cold compresses. This paper explores some aspects of using this method to dissolve fibrous benign breast growths.