Key Characteristics: Clears heat and drains fire: for high fever, irritability, thirst, rapid flooding pulse in pattern of excessive heat in Lungs and Stomache
Properties:
Bitter, Cold
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Lungs, Stomache, Kidneys
Actions:
- for cough due to heat in the Lungs with expectoration of thick ,yellow sputum
- enriches yin and moisten dry condition: for exhaustion or deficiency of Lung and Kidney yin with heat signs as night sweats, steaming bone disorder, irritability, warmth in the five centers and bleeding gums; also for Kidney heat signs as spermatorrhea
- generates fluids and clear heat: for oral ulcers and inflammation due to yin deficiency as well as wasting and thirsting disorder