Key Characteristics: very cold, excels at cooling Lung and stomach fire, while also dispersing to vent to the exterior and release the muscle layer
Properties:
Sweet, acrid, very cold,
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Lung, Stomach
Actions:
– clears heat and drains fire: relieves irritability and quenches thirst; suitable for stomach and lungs; symptoms like high fever, extreme thirst for cold drinks, profuse sweating and forceful pulse.
– clears Lung heat: it sedates Lung heat and restore ascending and descending function; symptoms like cough , wheezing, thirst, yellow sputum, red face.
– clears heat in stomach channel: heat in the stomach can lead to nausea, vomiting, headache, toothache, oral ulcers, cancer sores, stomatitis.
– clears heat and promotes healing of sores, burns, eczema: calcined Shi Gao has excellent properties to clear heat , treat necrosis and generate flesh, also for sores, burns, eczema.