Key Characteristics: dispels wind-dampness, promotes urination and reduces edema, toxic
Properties:
acrid, bitter, warm, toxic
Meridian/Organs Affected:
Liver, Kidney, Heart
Actions:
- dispels wind-dampness, promotes urination, reduces edema
- dispel wind dampness and strengthens sinews and bones, for wind- damp painful obstruction with spasms and pain of joints
- promotes urination gets rid of excess fluids, for edema due to dampness