Key Characteristics: cools and vents heat, particularly in the Heart and upper burner
Properties:
Bitter, slightly acrid, slightly cold
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Heart, Lungs, Gallbladder
Actions:
- resolves toxicity, disperses clumps
- clears heat and toxicity, dissipates nodules, for toxic clumps such as external sores, internal abscesses, scrofula, or throat painful obstruction
- for externally contracted wind heat, with pronounced fever, slight chills, sore throat and headache
- Reduces abscesses and dissipates clumps