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Gold

Gold ( གསེར། )  According to Tibetan old text, there are seven metal such as gold, silver, copper, iron , zinc, tin and lead. They are called in Sanskrit Dhatus ( dha =to sustain), simply because they prevent senility and thinness, and cure fever and other diseases, and thus sustain the system. Tibetan alchemy describes gold is red when melted, but white when cut into two. it leaves a saffron -like tint, when rubbed upon a touch stone. Types of gold  Gold is of two kinds namely, the first type is full of sixteen colors, whereas the second type has combined in itself only fourteen colors. Tibetan and Indian alchemy consider the first is purest, best, and has property of preventing and curing senility, and other type has the property of curing all kinds of disease, if suitably purified, incinerated, and applied as medicine for internal use with suitable accompaniments. Properties of Gold  Gold is gentle, pure, nutritive, curer of poison, phthisis, insanity an...

Alchemy Tibet

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I am a chemist by profession and always curious about Tibet's Alchemy. Its surprise to myself after so many years of research and talking to people about  Tibetan alchemist and understandable its well preserved. So l decided to make aware of the existence of such a branch of knowledge a Tibetan Chemistry and Alchemy. Tibetan chemistry and alchemy a subject almost unknown and my indebtedness to the Tibetans' early contribution to the development of science was briefly dismissed in the brief outline of the history of science ( by Gerald Druce).   Many of Tibetan ancient philosopher believes metallurgy that is a great science revealed to the world by God himself at the commencement of the present Kalpa ( a mundane period ). It was introduced into Tibet for the purpose of preventing disease and premature old age.  In this blog, I will discuss and consider the chemical system of Tibetan medicine as of divine origin. it is a super science, and, as suc...