Key Characteristics: clears heat, resolves summer heat, raises clear yang, stops bleeding
Properties:
bitter, slightly sweet, neutral
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Heart, Liver, Spleen
Actions:
- treat summer heat patterns, fever, irritable, excessive sweating, scanty urine, diarrhea
- raises spleen yang diarrhea;
- stops bleeding due to heat stagnation in lower jiao