Key Characteristics: strongly mobilizes all twelve channels to unblock painful obstruction by dispelling wind, dampness, and phlegm, and to soften areas of hardness
Properties:
acrid, salty warm
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Bladder
Actions:
- dispel wind-dampness, unblocks the channels, alleviates pain, esp. useful in treating wind painful obstruction as it both releases the exterior and promotes movement of qi in channels
- softens and transforms fish bones, for fish bones lodged in the throat
- focal distention and accumulation in the middle burner because it reduces phlegm and pathogenic water