Nature
Cold
Taste
Bitter
Channels
Heart, Liver, Lung, Stomach and Triple Burner
Daily dose
3-9 g
Tendency
Descending
Actions and indications
- Eliminates Heart-Fire.
- Drains Damp-Heat.
- Promotes diuresis
- Refreshes the Blood.
- Disperses toxic Heat.
Applications
- Hepatobiliary disorders
- Jaundice
- Cholecystitis
- Esophagitis
- Gastralgia
- Abdominal pain
- Epistaxis
- Hematemesis
- Melena
- Hematuria
- Agitation
- Anxiety
- Insomnia
- Arterial hypertension
- Dysuria
- Urinary tract infection
- Fungal skin eruptions
- Inflammatory processes
Contraindications
Spleen deficiency and diarrhea.