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 and other disease. It was well claimed in Tibetan medical text, that it increases memory, intelligence , improve appetites, and power of digestion of food. It pacifices all the three humors  ( dosha or humors) - rLung (pron. Loong)(Wind), mKhris-pa (pron. Tree-pa) [bile], and Bad-kan (pron. Pay-gen) (phlegm) ) and is  sweet in taste, after it is digested.

Gold is cool, nutritive, strengthening, heavy, sweet, bitter and astringent in taste. Its is describes in ancient text, that it turn sweet and slippery when it is digested. The ancient tibetan alchemy text claims that it is beneficial to eye sight, increase longevity and beneficial to the heart. It stabilizes beauty and purify of speech. Specially it cures two kinds of poison( artificial and natural), and insanity.

Gold increase vitality, fortune, beauty, intelligence, and memory. It destroys all sorts of diseases, pacifies the evil influences exerted on human being by ghosts, and give rise to happiness and nutrition. Interestingly, it claims that gold remove thinness, develop the mind, and increases semen.

Evil effect of  taking gold, not properly purified and burned.

Gold,not properly purified and burned, destroys, it taken internally, health, semen and strength and give rise to many kinds of disease. it should , therefore , be tiles of alloy, purified and burned.