What are the methods of cultivating herbal plants without affecting their therapeutic potency?
Tibetan healing gives importance to the habitat and altitude of the herbal plants. If the cool potency herbal plants are not able to grow in the cooler regions then there will be a difference in their potency. Therefore, the cool potency herbal plants must be grown in cooler regions like the shady regions of high mountains. This method greatly helps to retain their particular potency. 10. How many herbal plants are there in Tibetan healing? Though there are lots of Tibetan scriptures available on the herbal plants, the main text on Tibetan herbal plants is the “Shel-gong & Shel-phreng” composed by De’umar Tenzin Phuntsok in the 17th century. Shel-gong includes the brief introduction of 915 herbal plants. Shel-phreng encompasses detailed descriptions and classification of 2294 herbal plants with their potency and synonyms.
