Key Characteristics: cools heat, drains dampness, benefits the eyes, binds the intestines
Properties:
Bitter, Cold, Astringent
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Large Intestine, Liver, Gallbladder, Stomach
Actions:
- Clears heat, resolves toxicity, and dries dampness: for diarrhea, dysenteric disorder, and vaginal discharge due to damp-heat
- drains Liver fire and benefits eyes, for Liver heat affecting eyes causing redness, swelling pain, or formation of superficial visual obstruction
- disperses wind dampness, for painful obstruction, primarily of the hot type