Dr. Yonten’s Tibetan Healing Incense

This is a small red box of healing incense which is variously called "Himalayan Healing Incense", "Tibetan Healing Incense", "Original Healing Incense" and "Dr Pasang Yonten's Healing Incense". I note there are boxes available on the internet in various colours and names which all seem to relate to a recipe devised by Dr Pasang Yonten which involves 31 natural ingredients.

Dr Pasang Yonten

Dr Yonton's life history is outlined here, and given in more detail here. He is closely associated with the Tibetan Medical and Astro Institute, also known as Men-Tsee-Khang, and is an expert on Tibetan dream interpretation as part of a healing process, as he explains in this interview.

In my box the sticks were wrapped in a piece of yellow paper with some description of the incense and instructions for use.

It is claimed the incense cures headaches, back and chest pain, insomnia, and stress, among other ailments. This may well be true - it's always worth keeping an open mind, and different things work in different ways for different folk. I found the aroma to be on a par with other Tibetan incense I have burned - it is somewhat acrid and crude. It is not an incense I can remain in the same room with for long periods while it burns, and it doesn't create any positive moods for me. There's a rugged old fashioned men's deodorant scent about it, and a sort of woodsy, outdoors, camp fire smell. It's like your old man's Old Spice stained cardigan after he's come in from burning some compost and damp wood in the garden bonfire.

I'm curious about Tibetan incense, and will keep trying it, but I'm not quite getting there with it yet.

Date: March 2017   Score: 26

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Himalayan incense
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