Key Characteristics: cools heat, resolves toxicity, promotes expulsion of dampness through the urine
Properties:
Bitter, sweet, cold
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Liver, Stomache, Large Intestine
Actions:
- clears heat, strongly resolves fire toxicity, reduces abscesses, intestinal abscesses, sores, ulceration, swellings
- clears heat and facilitates resolution of dampness by promoting urination: for hot painful urinary dribbling and damp-heat jaundice