Key Characteristics: cools the lungs and stomach, generates fluids without being cloying, alleviates nausea, promotes urination
Properties:
Sweet, cold
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Lung, Stomach
Actions:
-clears heat and generates fluids: for heat patterns as high fever, irritability and thirst
-clears heat from Lungs: for Lu patterns with cough and thick yellow sputum; especially used in acute stage
-clears stomach heat : for such symptoms as vomiting and belching
-clears heat and promotes urination: for dark scanty urine or blood in the urine, esp. when accompanied by irritability and thirst
-encourages rashes to the surface: for febrile diseases with rashes that are not completely expressed