Key Characteristics: promotes urination, directs fire and damp-heat downward and out through the urine, facilitates lactation, unblocks blood stasis
Properties:
bitter, slightly cold
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Bladder, Heart, Small Intestine
Actions:
- promotes urination and drains heat from the Heart via the Small Intestine, for such symptoms as irritability accompanied by sores in mouth or tongue, scanty urination
- treating damp heat painful urination, edema and leg qi
- promotes lactation and unblocks blood vessels, for insufficient lactation
- less commonly used for amenorrhea and for pain and stiffness in the joints.