Key Characteristics: strongly clears heat and resolves toxicity, while reducing swelling and stopping pain; extinguishes wind and settles tremors
Properties:
bitter, slightly cold, slightly toxic
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Liver
Actions:
- Clears heat, resolves toxicity, reduces swellings, and stops pain, for toxic abscesses and sores, snakebite, bleeding due to trauma, and pain from stasis and swelling
- Extinguishes wind and settles tremors: for wind due to Liver heat such as childhood convulsions and seizures