This book is really a practical manual, where reasons, conditions, symptoms of diseases, methods of prevention and healing are described in simple and clear form. Off course, the only translation of this text will not give a full understanding of the subject, but it will bring doubtless benefit to specialists.
Below you can see a piece of translation.
The author is PHD Sodnam Tsering.He was born in 1942. He had a rich medical experience of more than 40 years, specializing in chronical diseases, knew very well both languages - Chinese and Tibetan, wrote many books on Tibetan medicine.

Сhapter 32

Medications and nourishment for gchin snyu.

1. Аbout food.If you take [eat] wheat, barley, oats, rice and other old cereals; dried lamb, goat, meat of hinik, it helps. Honey, molasses, sugar and other sweet and salty liquids are forbidden.
2. Medicine. Single-component: ung ba, skyu ru ra, skyer shun, gze ma, shug 'bru, a ru ra, a bras are able to "bind the mouth of water." Medicinal compounds: ung va, skyu ru ra, gze ma, four components in the form of decoction treat disease gchin snyu. Combination of ung ba, skye shun, shug 'bry - also treats.

Chapter 71

Symptoms and methods of treatment for tongue diseases.

1. Symptoms.
1.1. Lesions of the uvula. When it hits the Palatine tongue, it swells, increases, like a cow udder. There is a very strong pain, which increases when the food is swallowed.
1.2. Swelling of the tongue.There is"hardness", salivation in the mouth, inability to swallow food and drink due to the pain.
1.3. 'bam of the tongue. The tongue swells, ulcers, rashes, cracks appear on top of the tongue. Burning pains.
With these symptoms, it is easy to recognize the disease [of the tongue].

2. Method of treatment: Just as stated above, in Chapter 11 "About medicine and food for the tongue diseases".

Chapter 55

Etiology and prevention of gzang 'brum.

1. The causes and conditions of gzang 'brum: severe diarrhea, thin bedding and squatting, excessive attempts [at exiting] feces and urine, change of location of [rlung] thur sel- these are the conditions for disease. Mainly appears due to hardening and coarsening of the rectum and anus or to disfunction of rlung thur selwhen feces and urine do not come out as usually and the patient has to push them out.
2. Prevention of gzang 'brum. 2.1. It is necessary to be careful about the lifestyle described above because it is the condition for the appearance of the disease. 2.2. As for the composition, previously specified, se bru lnga pa, if you take it for a long time, it normalizes the function of thur sel, and prevents the appearance of the disease gzang 'brum.

Translator – Alexei Sumtsov

In the autumn of 2017 Alexei Sumtsov declared his intention to translate the book of doctor Sodnam Tsering “THE MIRROR SHEDDING LIGHT TO APPLICATION OF FOOD AND DRUGS CONVENIENT TO USE” from Tibetan to Russian.
Alexey expressed his desire to work independently on the translation .
We are desperately waiting for the result of his work.
We have not yet discussed edition, publishing, copyright and distribution questions and so far we do not collect money for this project.

Elena Shirshova