Key Characteristics: drains fire relieve toxicity, high fever, irritability disorientation, delirium, red tongue
Properties:
Bitter, cold
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Heart, Liver, Large Intestine, Stomach
Actions:
- excessive heat and toxicity, red eyes, sore throat, boils, carbuncles, abscesses
- clears heat dry dampness, damp heat St or Intestines, diarrhea, dysentery; -vomiting, acid regurgitations due to St heat
- clears heart fire, irritability, insomnia; -clears heat stops bleeding, nosebleed, blood in urine, stool, vomiting due hot blood.