Key Characteristics: facilitates urination, separates the clear and turbid fluids, guides damp-heat downward and out of the body through the urine
Properties:
sweet, cold
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Bladder, Kidney, Liver, Lung
Actions:
- promotes urination to solidify the stool, for diarrhea either for damp heat or damp summer heat
- promotes urination and clears damp heat, for any type of edema or painful dysfunction due to damp heat, generally for damp heat pouring in lower burner
- Clears the eyes for eye problems associated with either Liver and Kidney deficiency (e.g. dry eyes or diminished visual activity), or heat in the Liver channel depending on other herbs it is combined with
- expels phlegm and stops couch; for Lung heat-induced cough with yellow, copius sputum