Key Characteristics: dissolves food stagnation, promotes digestion, strengthen middle jiao
Properties:
acrid, sweet, neutral
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Lungs, Spleen, Stomach
Actions:
- especially promotes digestion in starches, rice, noodles, wheat, yam, potatoes; – inhibits lactation, large doses inhibits , small dose promotes it;
- regulates Liver qi, relieves Liver acting over Sp. which causes symptom like distention in hypochondriac and epigastric region, breast distention, belching, loss of appetite.