Dur byid

It can be identifiable with different species in the genus of Euphorbia. Mostly, it is identified with
the Ricinus communis () and its variants used to cure skin lesions caused by leprosy and other
communicable diseases, cold and hot diseases. According to Dga’ ba rdo rje (Dga’ ba rdo rje 1995:
220-21), this plant corresponds to Euphorbia fischeriana steud, which is distributed mainly in
northern China and whose roots are used to cure cancer, oedemas and tuberculosis. See Yong Xu
Sun and Ji Cheng Liu 2011: 1204-14. De’u dmar bstan ’dzin phun tshogs (1682b.), in his Shel
gong shel phreng (shel gong shel phreng 1986: 285-6), this medical substance can be differently
identified: plants such as the “wild castor or wild croton”, i.e. Baliospermum (skr. dantī ) and
Glycyrrhiza glabra Linn (skr.madhuka).