Key Characteristics: promotes urination and leaches out dampness
Properties:
sweet, bland, slightly cold
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Heart, Small Intestine, Lung
Actions:
- for heat disorder with dark, scanty urine, for hot painful urinary dysfunction
- clears heat from heart, moves heat from heart to small intestine where expelled by urine
- for pediatric sleep disorder with dark, scanty urine, irritability at night, restless sleep also for grown ups.