Part the text of the work is Tibetan-Mongolian but there is a list of medicines in Tibetan-Chinese. This work is a revision of the editor's earlier sman sna tshogs kyi ming tshad/ (Tibetan-Chinese), an adaptation of an original Man ngag gi rgyud/, a principle Tibetan medical text. (Michael Walter and Manfred Taube 2006-05-15, revised by Bill McGrath 2008-01-03)