Description

Meridian: heart, stomach

dosage: 10 gm. In either decoctions, pills, or powders.
when used topically can either be prepared as a powder
or decoction for a wash. Use fresh for high fever or coma.

action: · open orifices, expel phlegm. For student syndromes
with unclear mind, tinnitus, deafness, dulled sensations.
· harmonize the middle burner, transform turbid damp. For
abdominal pain, epigastric fullness due to damp obstruction
of spleen and stomach. Also for diarrhea.
· use internally and topically for wind-cold-damp painful
obstruction, trauma and sores.

caution: caution if yin xu with heat signs, or if irritability
and shi sweat, vomiting blood, or spermatorrhea.
may antagonize ma huang.