Key Characteristics: facilitates the dispersal of upper burner wind-heat, cools and clears the eyes and head, soothes the throat, facilitates the flow of liver qi and expels turbid filth
Properties:
Acrid aromatic cooling
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Lungs, liver
Actions:
- Raises the spirit.
- Disperses wind heat: for pattern of wind heat with fever, headache and cough. Clears the head and eyes and benefits the throat
- Prevents rashes: used in early stage of rashes like measles to induce the rush to come to the surface and speed recovery.
- Allows constrained liver qi to flow freely: symptoms like pressure in the chest or flanks, emotional instability and gynecological problems.