Key Characteristics: Enriched the yin, cools the blood, clears heat
Properties:
Sweet, bitter, cold
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Heart, Liver, Kidneys
Actions:
- clears heat and cools the blood: warm heat pathogen diseases causing very high fever, thirst, scarlet tongue, hemorrhages due to heat entering the blood level
- nourishes the yin and generates fluid: manifesting in dry mouth, continuous low grade fever, constipation, throat pain from yin deficiency, wasting and thirsting disorder