Tibetan medicine recommended by Rinpoche:
- Gur chung: take two each day for two months.
- Jüng nga: take one each day for three months.
- Erma. [This is a spice with medicinal qualities that grows in the Himalayas. The student advised she took the erma powder with juice or in soup.]
Practices advised by Rinpoche:
- Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga sadhana: every day
- Water bowls: 100,000
- Vajrasattva mantras: 40,000
- Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava) mantra: four malas each day
- Medicine Buddha practice: as much as possible
- Short White Tara sadhana
- Vajra Cutter Sutra: fifty recitations
- Bum chung (small Prajnaparamita): thirty times
- Garuda multi-colored Vajrapani. [Rinpoche did not give a specific amount, but the student practiced a lot and felt a strong connection with the deity.]
