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བད་ཀན་

Transliteration: bad kan

<noun> "Phlegm". The name of one of the three principal "humours" of the body according to Tibetan medicine.

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ལན་ཀན་

Transliteration: lan kan

<noun> [Old] Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, པུ་ཤུ་ q.v. Note that, acc. [TC] it is a [Chinese] derived term.

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ཀན་ད་ཤམ་མ་ཀ་

Transliteration: kan da sham ma ka

Incorrect spelling of ཐམ་ག་ q.v. (According to the rules of letter gender, the མིང་མཐའ་ name-ending after letter མ་ has to be a female ending which is ག་ not ཀ་).

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ཀན་

Transliteration: kan

<noun> 1) "Kan" [Chinese] The name in Chinese medicine of one of the veins of the human wrist that is pressed on in order to do pulse diagnosis. Usually referred to as ཀན་རྩ་ "the Kan vein". 2) Derived from meaning 1), གུང་མོ་ the middle finger of the hand. 3) [Dialect] meaning "over there", "yonder" and with the sense of it being pointed out. E.g., [TC] རི་འགོ་ཀན་ལ་དར་དམར་ཚུགས། "erected a …

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བད་ཀན་རིགས་དྲུག་

Transliteration: bad kan rigs drug

<enum> "The six types of phlegm (disease)". These are the six main categories of བད་ཀན་ phlegm disease according to Tibetan medicine: 1) ལྷེན་ན་; 2) ལྕགས་དྲེག་; 3) མེ་ཉམས་; 4) མགུལ་འགགས་; 5) གྲུམ་བུ་དཀར་པོ་; 6) འཇུ་སྐེམ་.

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མེ་ཉམས་

Transliteration: me nyams

<noun> The name of one of the བད་ཀན་རིགས་དྲུག་ "six types of phlegm (disease)".

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ཐལ་སྨན་

Transliteration: thal sman

<noun> "Ash medicine(s)". The སྨན་ materia medica of Tibetan medicine are divided into eight categories q.v. for listing. This is a type of medicine which is made by reducing certain substances to ash in fire. The resulting medicine is used mainly for reducing cold disease produced by a བད་ཀན་ phlegm imbalance in the body.

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