Key Characteristics: yin tonic, nutritive, alterative, diuretic, demulcent, emollient, vulnerary, laxative
Properties:
sweet, bitter, cool
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Lungs, Stomach, Kidney
Actions:
- used to treat diseases, tuberculosis, diabetes, cough, dry and inflamed lungs, gangrene
- used for treating septicemia, ulcers, pain of kidney stones, difficult or painful urination, blood in the urine, stool or nose, vomiting or spitting blood.