Key Characteristics: cool and invigorates the blood, resolves toxicity, facilitates passage of stool and urine
Properties:
Sweet, cold
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Heart, Liver
Actions:
- clears heat, cools blood and relieves fire toxins while venting rashes: for encouraging rashes to surface
- often used for fire toxins with very dark purple rashes
- clears damp heat from the skin: applied topically for damp heat skin lesions or vaginal itching, also used for burns
- moisten the intestines and unblocks the bowels: for heat in the blood accompanied by constipation