Key Characteristics: disperses heat, resolves toxicity, cools blood, stops bleeding if charred
Properties:
Sweet, cold
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Liver, Lungs, Stomach
Actions:
- clears heat relieves fire toxicity, hot, painful sores ,swellings esp. for breast, throat or eye, intestinal abscess
- expels externally contracted wind heat, fever, sensitivity to wind, sore throat, headache
- summer heat
- clears damp heat of lower burner, dysenteric disorder, painful urination