Key Characteristics: Treats alternating chills and fever, releases heat in the muscle layer, harmonizes lesser yang stage disorders, raises the clear qi of the stomach and gallbladder, relieves liver qi constraint
Properties:
Bitter, acrid, cool
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Gallbladder,Liver, Pericardium,Triple Burner
Actions:
- for alternating chills and fever accompanied by a bitter taste, flank pain, irritability, vomiting, stifling sensation in the chest
- auxiliary herb for heat from deficiency
- spreads liver qi: symptoms like dizziness, vertigo, chest and flank pain, emotional instability, or menstrual problems
- disharmony between liver and spleen: epigastric, flank pain, stifling sensation in chest, abdominal bloating, nausea and indigestion
- raises and lifts the yang qi, of the stomach: prolapse, hemorrhoids, vaginal discharge, bleeding or exhaustion