Key Characteristics: cools, moistens, directs the Lung qi and Heart fire downward to transform phlegm, alleviate cough, relieve constraint, and disperse clumped phlegm-heat
Properties:
bitter, sweet, slightly cold
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Heart, Lungs
Actions:
- clears heat transforms phlegm, many types of cough, chronic cough, coughs due to yin def, cough with slight sputum difficult to expectorate, blood streaked sputum cough, cough with constrained qi, with reduced appetite, stifling sensation in the chest
- clears heat dissipates nodules, for disorders in which phlegm fire collects and produces nodules, sore, swellings, scrofula, Lungs and breast abscess.