Key Characteristics: facilitates the fluid pathways, clears blazing ministerial fire
Properties:
sweet, bland, cold
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Kidney, Bladder
Actions:
- promotes urination and leaches out dampness, for stagnation associated with such symptoms as urinary difficulty, edema, diarrhea; especially when there is damp heat in the lower burner
- setttles kidney fire by draining damp heat from the lower burner: spermatorrhea due to lower burner damp-heat disturbing the ministerial fire of the kidneys
- promotes urination, for hot and stony painful urinary dysfunction or edema
- benefits the gall bladder and removes jaundice
- for wasting and thirsting disorder