Tza-chug Therapy

Tza-chug Therapy | རྩ་བྱུག།

channel hot oil therapy

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What is Tza-chug?

Tza-chug (རྩ་བྱུག།) is one of the most common external treatments in Tibetan Medicine, and it has been used for thousands of years. It is one of the hot oil therapies offered at Kunde Institute. "Tza" refers to the channels or blood vessels in the body and "chug" means to apply ornaments or oil on the body. In this treatment, the massage oil is combined with different herbs including turmeric and ginger, and then the mixture is heated. The heated oil is then massaged into the afflicted area of the body. It is one of the most popular external treatments at our clinic.

Benefits of Tza-chug

Tza-chug helps relieve nerve pain or neurological pain and discomfort including stiffness, and tightness as well as skeletal-muscular injury causing pain, stiffness, or tightness.

Tza-chug is excellent for the following conditions:
Stiffness, tightness, and numbness of body parts including neck, back, shoulder, knee, hip, toes, etc.
Achilles Tendonitis
Carpal Tunnel
Tendonitis
Frozen shoulders
Arthritis including knees and other joints shoulders, fingers, ankles

Tza-chug** is contraindicated for the following conditions:
Skin ulcers
Open skin sores

Kunde (pronounced: kün-dey, spelled: ཀུན་བདེ།) Institute, a center for Tibetan wellness and healing, was founded by Doctor Yangdron Kalzang in 2004. The name “Kunde” was given to the center by her root teacher, Kenpo Troru Tsenam Rinpoche, one of the most highly respected scholars of traditional Tibetan Medicine in Tibet. In Tibetan, “Kunde” means “may all beings be healthy, wealthy and happy.” Dedicated to the mission of benefiting all people with affordable, integrative health services, Kunde offers a variety of traditional Tibetan and Asian medical modalities. Offices are located in Daly City and Berkeley.