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བྱུག་སྨན་
Transliteration: byug sman
<phrase> "Medicinal ointment"; ointments, such as antibiotic creams, intended for topical application to cuts, wounds, infections of the skin.
འབྱུག་པ་
Transliteration: 'byug pa
<verb> v.t. བྱུགས་པ་/ འབྱུག་པ་/ བྱུག་པ་/ བྱུགས་/. To spread a paste or liquid onto the surface of something else, hence "to wet with", "to smear", "to anoint", "to spread", "to apply (across the surface)", "to put on". E.g., [TC] ཤིང་སྒམ་གསར་པར་བཀྲག་རྩི་བྱུགས་པ། "applied varnish over the new wooden chest; ཚོན་འབྱུག་པ། "to apply dye or paint"; རྨ་ཁར་སྨན་བྱུག་དགོས། "the medicine must be smear…
བྱུག་པ་
Transliteration: byug pa
I. <verb> Fut. of འབྱུག་པ་ q.v.
II. <noun> 1) [Old] Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions where in cases it meant ཞལ་བ་ q.v. i.e., it was the older term for surfacing applied to walls, floors, etc. 2) "Unguent", "rub", "salve", "paint", "lotion", etc. Any substance used as a smeared application for anything. E.g., for the skin, a cream, salve, oint…
སྨན་
Transliteration: sman
<noun> The actual meaning of the term is "a refined substance that has an effect". Although commonly used to mean "medicine" it actually has more the sense of "chemical" or "potent substance". This one word in Tibetan has several equivalents in English and must be translated on context.
I. In general usage, any substance with a high level of potency which is used for achieving some effect, …
བཤལ་སྨན་
Transliteration: bshal sman
<noun> "Purgative". Medicine for making the stomach and / intestines evacuate themselves. This does not only mean medicine for overcoming constipation called "a laxative". Tibetan medicine had a number of purgatives that were used to evacuate the vowels because that was seen as a way of curing various diseases.
སྨན་ཁུག་
Transliteration: sman khug
<noun> "Medicine bag". A small bag, usually a cloth pouch, for carrying medicines.
སྨན་བཞི་
Transliteration: sman bzhi
<enum> "The four medicines". The འདུལ་བ་ Vinaya explains four types of medicine. [DGT] [JKE] give as: 1) དུས་རུང་གི་སྨན་ "medicine to be taken at the allowed times"; 2) ཐུན་ཚོད་ཀྱི་སྨན་ "medicine to be taken at the prescribed times"; 3) ཞག་བདུན་པའི་སྨན་ "medicine to be taken for seven days"; 4) འཚོ་བཅངས་ཀྱི་སྨན་ "medicine to be taken for the time needed to restore health".
དུག་སྨན་
Transliteration: dug sman
<noun> 1) "Antidote for poison" / "poison antidote". The general name for substances used to counteract poison. 2) "Poisonous medicine(s)". The general name for medicines compounded from poisonous substances. 3) "Poison substance". An altern. name for the very poisonous substance བོང་ང་ནག་པོ་ black aconite q.v.
ས་སྨན་
Transliteration: sa sman
<noun> "Ground-derived medicine(s)". The སྨན་ materia medica of Tibetan medicine are divided into eight categories q.v. for listing. This is the type of medicinal substance obtained from the ground. Two kinds are seen: 1) one which is naturally occurring and needs no further preparation for its use such as སིནྡྷུ་ར་ sindhur powder which is taken directly from the ground; and 2) one which is…