Herbal Action:
According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, it is acrid, warm, and with ascending and dispersing aroma in nature. It goes
to meridians of lung, stomach, and large intestine.
Main functions are to expel pathogenic wind to resolve exterior, expel cold to stop pain, remove dampness to open the orifices, and diminish swelling and discharge pus. Main usage and indications are wind-cold type common cold, headache, supraorbital pain, toothache, lacrimation due to itchy eye, sinus congestion, prolonged diarrhea caused by excessive damp, hematochezia, leucorrhea with white or reddish discharge, sores and ulcers, itch and scab, and snakebite.
