Key Characteristics: tonifies Spleen and augments the Lungs; leaches out dampness from the bones, sinews, and muscles to treat painful obstruction disorder, cools heat and expels pus to treat sores and abscesses
Properties:
sweet, bland, slightly cold
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Spleen, Kidney, Stomach, Lungs
Actions:
- resolves dampness and strengthens the Spleen: for edema, diarrhea, leq, qi, painful urinary dribbling, and damp-warmth.
- facilitates the resolution of dampness and eliminates painful obstruction: for wind-damp painful obstruction
- clear heat and expels pus, for soft , postulated carbuncles, lung or intestinal abscess
- expels wind- dampness, painful obstruction effective for joint mobility and reducing spasm in chronic cases
- clears damp heat characterized by a greasy tongue coating and digestive problems