Table 3 Wild food plants according to The Four Tantras [30] and The Blue Beryl [31]

ri sgog

Allium spp.

All types of “mountain garlic” are heavy in quality and hard to digest, and increase appetite.

lcum lo

Rheum palmatum L.

Leaves from these two rhubarbs alleviate disorders arose from unbalance of the humour phlegm and improve appetite.

chu lo

Rheum spiciforme Royle

zwa

Urtica spp.

Cooked nettles help to treat disorders arose from unbalance of the humour wind, generate heat, and aggravate bile and phlegm disorders.

lcam pa

Malva verticillata L.

When cooked, they generate heat and stop diarrhoea.

de khur

Plantago depressa Willd.

dwa ba

Arisaema spp.

When cooked, it pacifies wind disorders, dries up abscesses, aggravates phlegm, and bile disorders.

sne’u

Chenopodium album L.

When cooked, it is harmful to eyes, and effective against constipation.

mon sne’u dmar po

Amaranthus caudatus L. Chenopodium aristatum L. (Dysphania aristata (Linnaeus) Mosyakin & Clemants) C. botrys L. (Dysphania botrys (Linnaeus) Mosyakin & Clemants)

When cooked, it pacifies all the three humours.

khur mang

Taraxacum tibetanum Handel-Mazzetti

When cooked, they are cool in quality, and alleviate hot disorders.

skyabs

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sngo sga

Cremanthodium spp.

When cooked, it cures hot disorders associated with bile, and relieves headache.

lca ba

Angelica sinensis (Oliver) Diels

When cooked, they relieve phlegm and wind disorders.

ra mnye

Polygonatum cirrhifolium (L.) All.

sgog sngon

Allium rubellum auct. non Bieb.: Hook.f (A. jacquemontii Kunth) Allium carolinianum Redouté Allium fistulosum L.

When cooked, it cures hot and wind disorders.

Spices

g.yer ma

Zanthoxylum tibetanum C. C. Huang. (Zanthoxylum oxyphyllum Edgeworth) Zanthoxylum bungeanum Maxim.

It opens the channels, but it increases phlegm and wind humours.

go snyod

Carum carvi L.

It cures poisoning and fever, promotes appetite and digestive heat.

‘bam po

Ligusticum pteridophyllum Franchet Heracleum millefolium Diels

It alleviates swellings.