Key Characteristics: dispersing in nature, benefits the stomach, alleviates nausea, stops coughing, transforms phlegm
Properties:
Acrid, warm
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Lungs, Stomach, Spleen.
Actions:
- release the exterior and disperses cold
- warms the middle burner and alleviates vomiting: for cold in the stomach specially with vomiting
- disperses cold and stops coughing: acute wind cold cough patterns and chronic Lung disorders with phlegm
- reduces the toxicity of other herbs: for detoxifying or treating overdoses of other herbs like Fu Zi or Ban Xia
- adjust the nutritive and protective qi: for patients who suffer from exterior deficiency, who sweat without improvement