Key Characteristics: clears damp-heat and facilitates urination
Properties:
bitter, slightly cold
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Bladder
Actions:
- clears damp heat from urinary bladder, promotes urination, unblocks painful urinary dribbling from damp heat
- expels parasites and stops itching, for damp skin lesions with itching, including tinea, intestinal parasites such as tape worm, hookworm, pinworm
- clears damp heat from skin, eczema or postular sores.