You can also use saffron water in place of the first two offerings. The seventh is food. In Tibet we usually mix tsampa with butter, milk, cheese and the three sweets - brown sugar, white sugar and honey. Music is the eighth offering. The inner offerings on the shrine are men, rakta and torma.
Men is nectar and is placed on the shrine s right-hand side.
You can fill a metal skullcup with alcohol and add dutsi which is a consecrated substance made of eight root substances and one thousand secondary substances. Dutsi has many functions, such as appearing as light which invokes wisdom or transforming into a hook catches siddhis and so forth. Rakta is placed on the shrine s left-hand side. You can fill the skullcup with black tea and add rakta substance if you have it. Rakta substance is made of the blood of inanimate elements, such as grass and trees.