Nature

Cool

Taste

Salty and astringent

Channels

Liver and Kidney

Daily dose

15-30 g

Tendency

Descending

Actions

• Anchors Liver-Yang and Heart
• Calms the Shen
• Astringes fluids
• Eliminates masses

Applications

• Fatigue
• Headache
• Dizziness
• Tinnitus
• Blurred vision
• Hot flashes
• Restlessness
• Fever with irritability
• Profuse sweating
• Night sweating
• Leukorrhea
• Metrorrhagia
• Nodules
• Gastralgia (antacid effect)

Contraindications

• High fever from excess
• Absence of sweating