TCM Herbs that influence the Heart Channel

• Moisten the lungs, clear heat, and stop coughing - cough from dry lungs or lung heat, sore throat.
• Clear heat and calm the spirit - low fever, insomnia, restlessness, irritability in the aftermath of a febrile disease, palpitations from qi and/or yin deficiency.

• Nourishes heart blood, calms the spirit - irritability, insomnia, forgetfulness, palpitations.
• Moisten the intestines from blood/yin deficiency - constipation (elderly, post-partum women).
• Nightsweats due to yin deficiency.

• Promotes urination and reduces edema - ascites.
• Cools the blood and reduces toxicity - good for snake bites and wasp stings.

• Drains heat, relieves fire toxicity, cools the blood and benefits the throat - warm-febrile disease, mumps, painful swollen throat.
• Damp-heat jaundice.

• Aromatically opens orifices, revives the spirit - fainting, convulsion.
• Clears heat, alleviates pain, dissipates nodules, alleviates itching - topically for pain, swelling of the throat, skin disease, eye disease (photophobia, excessive tearing), regenerates flesh.

• Cools blood, stops bleeding - vomiting blood, bleeding gums, coughing blood, blood in the stool or urine, uterine bleeding, bloody dysentery.
• Stops cough, expels phlegm - lung heat patterns (cough w/phlegm), thick bloody sputum that is difficult to expectorate.
• Promote healing of burns - topically in powdered form for early stages.

• Checks malarial conditions.
• Induces vomiting to expel phlegm in the chest.

• Clears heat, promotes urination - abdominal fullness and swelling due to edema, urinary difficulty, leg qi edema; the nature of this herb is to move downward and relieve edema by water or dampness drained from the body.
• Disperses blood stasis - reduces swelling and fire toxicity, sores, carbuncles.
• Clears damp heat - jaundice.

• Clears heat, transforms phlegm, stops many types of cough (chronic, yin-deficient, difficult to expectorate phlegm, blood streaked sputum); best for cough with stifling sensation in the chest and upper abdomen (constrained qi).
• Clears heat, dissipates nodules due to heat - sores, swellings, scrofula, lung or breast abscess.

• Incompatible with Wu Tou.

• Drains heat and purges accumulations - high fever, profuse sweating, thirst, constipation, abdominal distention and pain, delirium, yellow tongue coating, full pulse which indicates intestinal heat excess or yang ming stage illness.
• Drains heat from the blood - blood in the stool from bleeding hemorrhoids or heat in the intestine; vomting blood or nosebleed accompanied by constipation; painful eyes or fire toxin sores due to heat in the blood level.
• Drains damp-heat via the stool - jaundice, dysentery, lin syndrome.
• Invigorates the blood and dispels blood stasis - amenorrhea, abdominal masses, fixed pain due to blood stasis (recent and long-term blood stasis).
• Clears heat and reduces fire toxicity - for burns, hot skin.

• Avoid During Pregnancy and During Nursing
• Avoid in exterior disorders and deficiency of qi and/or blood

• Clears heat, relieves toxicity - for any contagious febrile disease outbreak; also for fire toxin anywhere, but especially in the throat and lungs.
• Cools the blood, reduces blotches - skin eruptions due to heat in the blood, intense fever, irritability.

• Calms the liver, anchors floating yang, clears liver fire.
• Directs rebellious qi downwards - belching, vomiting, hiccough, wheezing.
• Cools the blood, stops bleeding - vomiting of blood, nosebleed.

• Invigorate blood, break up blood stasis in lower abdomen - dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, palpable masses, lochioschesis, pain due to blood stasis, chest/epigastric pain, soreness in the ribs due to liver qi stagnation w/blood stasis.
• Clear heat, soothe irritability - restlessness, irritability, insomnia due to heat entering the ying level.

• Incompatible with Li Lu

• Clears heat - heat patterns with irritability and thirst, mouth sores and swollen, painful gums due to heat in the heart or stomach channels.
• Promotes urination and clears damp-heat - lin syndrome, especially for heat in the small intestine channel with above symptoms and dark red tip on the tongue.

• Avoid during Pregnancy.

• Tonifies the blood, regulates menses - pallid, ashen complexion, tinnitus, blurred vision, palpitations, irregular menses, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea.
• Invigorates/harmonizes the blood, disperses cold - important herb to stop pain due to blood stasis - abdominal pain, trauma, carbuncles due to blood stasis, chronic bi.
• Moistens dry intestines due to blood deficiency.
• Reduces swellings, expels pus, generates flesh - sores.

• Promotes urination and leaches out dampness - heat disorders with lin syndrome.
• Clears heat from the heart channel into the small intestine (expelled through the urine) - pediatric sleep disorders with heat signs at night accompanied by irritability and scanty urination; adult insomnia (heart fire with kidney yin deficiency).

• Promotes urination, drains dampness, transforms phlegm - urinary difficulty, diarrhea, edema, headache, dizziness, greasy tongue coat.
• Strengthens the spleen, harmonizes the middle jiao - diarrhea, loss of appetite.
• Quiets the heart and calms the spirit - palpitations, insomnia, forgetfulness.

• Avoid Vinegar While Using This Herb.

• Stops excessive sweating from deficiency patterns - nightsweats, spontaneous sweating.
• Nourish the heart - palpitations, insomnia, irritability.
• Childhood bedwetting.

• Restores devastated yang - extreme cold limbs with abundant cold symptoms.
• Assists heart yang to unblock vessels and improve circulation, tonifies kidney yang to augment fire and avoid loss of the basal yang.
• Warms fire and assists yang - any problem associated with weak heart, spleen, and/or kidneys.
• Disperses cold, warms the channels, alleviates pain - wind-damp-cold bi, cold blocking organs, channels, sinews, bones or blood vessels.

• Avoid during Pregnancy.
• Avoid in yin deficiency with false cold and true heat.

• Tonifies the spleen and augments qi - spleen deficiency w/shortness of breath, fatigue, loose stools (si jun zi tong).
• Qi and/or blood deficiency w/irregular pluse or palpitations (Zhi Gan Cao Tang).
• Moistens the lungs and stops cough - heat/cold in the lungs (Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang).
• Clears heat and toxic fire (raw) - carbuncles, sores, sore throat due to fire toxin (internally or topically).
• Alleviates pain and stops spasms - abdomen or legs (Shao Yao Gan Cao Tang).
• Often used to harmonize and/or moderate characteristics of other herbs.
• Antidote for toxic substances (internally and topically).

• Avoid with excess dampness, nausea, vomiting.
• Incompatible with Gan Sui, Da Ji, Yuan Hua, Hai Zao (although used in some formulas with Hai Zao).
• If taken for long periods of time, may cause hypertension and/or edema.

• Warms the middle and expels cold - warms spleen and stomach both in conditions of excess due to externally contacted cold, as well as cold from deficiency due to yang qi deficiency.
• Rescues devastated yang, expels interior cold - very weak pulse and cold limbs.
• Warms the lungs and transforms phlegm - lung cold with thin, watery or white sputum.
• Warms the channels, stops bleeding - hemorrhage of various types, especially for uterine bleeding (must be due to cold - chronic and pale in color, with cold limbs, soggy pulse).

• Extinguishes wind and alleviates spasms - spasms, muscle tremors, seizures.
• Drains liver heat and pacifies liver yang - headaches, irritability, red eyes, dizziness.
• Releases the exterior - fever, headaches, red eyes.

• Nourish yin, anchor yang - yin deficiency with ascending yang, night sweats, dizziness, tinnitus, steaming bone disorder.
• Liver and kidney yin deficiency - internal wind symptoms, facial spasms, hand and feet tremors.
• Benefits kidneys, strengthens bone - sore back, weak legs, slow skeletal growth in children.
• Cools the blood - stops uterine bleeding due to heat in the blood, excessive menses.
• Tonify blood, nourish the heart, calm the heart - anxiety, insomnia.

• Releases muscle layer and adjusts ying and wei qi levels
• Useful in wind-cold-damp bi syndromes to warm channels and disperse cold
• Resolves blood stagnation particularly from cold - dysmenorrhea
• Unblocks yang qi in the chest - shortness of breath, chest pain, palpitations
• Resolve edema and accumulation of cold phlegm

• Avoid in wind-heat and/or empty heat conditions
• Avoid in heat in the blood, particularly w/vomiting

• Drains fire and expels summer-heat - high fever, irritability, thirst, yellow tongue coat associated with summer heat.
• Burns and sores, throat and oral ulcers (topically).

• Avoid in cold cases arising from spleen or stomach deficiency.

• Calms the spirit, relieves constrained emotions - vexation, depression, insomnia, irritability, poor memory.
• Invigorates the blood, alleviates pain - pain and swelling due to trauma, abscesses.
• The flower, He Huan Hua (ye he hua, ye he mi) has similar functions for calming the shen from liver constraint - insomnia, chest oppression, irritability.

• Use with caution during pregnancy (stimulates uterine contractions).

• Treats summerheat patterns - fever, irritability, excessive sweating, scanty urine, diarrhea due to summerheat.
• Raises and clears the spleen yang - diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, especially after summer-heat.
• Stops bleeding - lower burner bleeding due to heat or stagnation, also for vomiting blood.

• Invigorate blood, unblock menstruation - blood stasis patterns w/amenorrhea, abdominal pain, post partum dizziness, lochioschesis, abdominal masses.
• Dispels blood stasis, alleviates pain - blood stasis wounds and pain, carbuncles, dark purplish erythema, rash, chest pain due to blood stasis.

• Avoid During Pregnancy

• Arrest tremors, stop palpitations, calm the spirit - tremor, palpitation, anxiety, excessive dreams, insomnia, poor memory, convulsions, seizures.
• Invigorate the blood, dissipate stasis - amenorrhea with pain, palpable masses, coronary heart disease.
• Promote urination, invigorate the blood - xue lin.
• Reduce swellings, promote healing - sores, carbuncles, ulcers, genital swelling and pain.

• Drains fire, relieves toxicity - high fever, irritability, disorientation, delirium, painful, red eyes, red tongue, sore throat, boils, carbuncles, abscesses.
• Clears heat, drains dampness - for damp-heat in the stomach or intestine, diarrhea or dysenteric disorder, vomiting and/or acid regurgitation due to stomach heat.
• Clears heart fire - irritability, insomnia.
• Clears heat and stops bleeding - nosebleed, blood in the urine, stool, vomiting due to hot blood.
• Topically for red, painful eyes and ulcerations of the tongue and mouth.

• Dissipates nodules and reduces massage - goiter, cancer.
• Cools the blood and stops bleeding - vomiting blood, coughing up blood, uterine bleeding.
• Reduces toxicity of toxic swellings (topically).

• Promotes the movement of blood, tonify the blood - blood deficiency patterns such as irregular menses, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, accompanied with abdominal pain.
• Invigorate the channels, relax the sinews - numbness of the extremities, lower back pain, knee pain, damp bi-syndrome, w/blood deficiency or stasis.

• Dispels blood stasis, unblocks menses - amenorrhea, post partum abdominal pain, pain due to trauma.
• Topically - burns, bleeding from wounds, contusions.

• Avoid During Pregnancy

• Opens the Orifices and Transforms Phlegm - Seizures from high fevers, strong psychiatric illnesses, loss of consciousness and/or very muddled thinking, tinnitus, deafness.
• Stagnant energy in the chest, abdominal distention, bloating.
• Wind damp related arthritis.

• Use with caution in patients with yin deficiency or yang rising.

• Clears heat, dries dampness - dysentery, leukorrhea, jaundice, sores.
• Expels wind, kills parasites, stops itching - for damp toxin skin lesions or infestations with chronic itching, seepage, and bleeding; genital itching and vaginal discharge.
• Clears heat, promotes urination - for damp-heat in the small intestine, lin syndrome, hot edema.

• Drains heart fire - for warm-febrile disease where heat collapses into the pericardium channel causing confusion, delirium; insomnia and irritability due to excessive heart fire.
• Stops bleeding, binds the essence - vomiting blood, spermatorrhea.

• Avoid in patients with abdominal masses and/or constipation.

• Clear heat and toxins, dissipates nodules - carbuncles and hot sores, neck lumps.
• Expel wind-heat - fever, slight chills, sore throat, headache.

• Tonify the spleen and binds - chronic diarrhea, loss of appetite.
• Tonify the kidneys and stabilize the jing - stop leukorrhea and spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation.
• Nourish heart, calm the spirit - irritability, anxiety, palpitations, insomnia.

• Extinguishes wind, controls spasms and convulsions - spasms, convulsions, seizures, expecially in children with high fever.
• Calms the liver, anchors the yang - for liver yang rising, dizziness, headache, red eyes, photophobia, spasms, convulsions.
• Drains heat and fire - delirium, manic behavior, loss of consciousness, heat in the pericardium.

• Calms the spirit - emotional distress, insomnia, palpitations, anxiety, seizures.
• Calms the liver, anchors floating yang - irritable, blurred vision, vertigo, bad temper.
• Prevents leakage of fluids due to deficiency - spermatorrhea, night sweats, spontaneous sweating, vaginal discharge, nocturnal emissions, uterine bleeding.
• Topically for chronic non-healing sores and ulcerations.

• Tonify heart and spleen, nourish blood, calm the spirit - insomnia, palpitations, poor memory, dizziness.

• Clears summerheat - thirst (main symptom), fever, irritability; often drunk as a tea in summertime to prevent over heating.
• Antidote to Fu Zi.

• Moistens the lungs, stops cough - dry cough, coughing blood.
• Augments stomach yin, generates fluids - dry tongue and mouth.
• Clears heat and eliminates irritability due to yin deficiency or a warm-febrile disease in the ying level - particularly when symptoms are worse at night.
• Moistens the intestines - constipation.

• Invigorate blood, dispel blood stasis, reduces swelling, alleviate pain - trauma, sores, carbuncles, swellings, abdominal masses, painful obstruction, chest pain, abdominal pain, amenorrhea.
• Promotes healing of chronic non-healing sores.

• Avoid During Pregnancy

• Clears Heat (excess and deficient), Cools Blood. Nose bleed, bloody sputum or vomit, subcutaneous bleeding, frequent and profuse menses due to heat in the Blood.
• Clear Deficient Fire. Yin deficiency patterns such as steaming bone disorder after a warm-febrile disease particularly those without sweating.
• Clears Liver Blood Stasis. Amenorrhea, abdominal masses, bruises.
• Clears Rising Liver Fire. Headache, eye pain, flank pain, flushing, dysmenorrhea.
• Drains Pus, Reduces Swelling. Used topically for non-draining sores. Used internally for intestinal abscess.

Avoid in Pregnancy, Excess Menses due to Blood moving action.

• Promotes urination, drains heat from the heart through the small intestine - irritability with sores of the mouth or tongue, scanty urination, lin syndrome, edema.
• Promotes lactation, unblocks the blood vessels - insufficient lactation, less commonly for amenorrhea and bi-syndrome.

• Avoid during Pregnancy.
• Toxic - can lead to renal failure (aristolochic acid).

• Clears the heart, opens the orifices, awakens the spirit, vaporizes phlegm - delirium or coma due to wind-heat or hot diseases with hot phlegm obstructing the pericardium.
• Clears the liver, relieves toxicity, extinguishes wind, stops tremors - spasms, tremors, convulsions with high fever due to heat entering the liver.
• Drains heat and relieves fire toxicity - red, painful, swollen, or ulcerated throat as well as for sores, carbuncles, boils, and a wide variety of hot swellings.

• Do not use during pregnancy.

• Stops bleeding (external and internal) - traumatic injury, uterine bleeding, vomiting blood, nosebleed, coughing blood, blood in urine or stool.
• Invigorate blood, dispels stasis - chest pain, postpartum abdominal pain, menstrual pain due to blood stasis.

• Avoid During Pregnancy

• Cools the blood to stop bleeding - vomiting blood, nosebleed, coughing blood, blood in stool, uterine bleeding, any bleeding due to hot blood.
• Invigorates blood to dispel blood stasis - pain associated with blood stasis, especially chest and flank pain, trauma, joint pain, early stage of carbuncles.

• Clears damp heat, promotes urination, unblocks lin syndrome - for any lin, especially xue lin.
• Breaks up blood stasis - amenorrhea due to blood stasis.
• Unblocks the bowels - constipation.

• Avoid during Pregnancy.

• Warms the kidneys and fortifies yang - aversion to cold, cold limbs, weak back, impotence, frequent urination; also for waning of spleen and kidney yang with abdominal pain and cold, reduced appetite, diarrhea; wheezing due to failure of the kidneys to grasp the Qi.
• Leads floating yang back to its source - upward floating of deficient yang; flushed face, wheezing, severe sweating (like oil), weak and cold lower extremities, deficient and rootless pulse (false heat-true cold, or heat above-cold below).
• Disperses deep cold, warms the channels, alleviates pain due to cold causing qi or blood stasis; amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea.
• Encourages generation of Qi and blood.

• Antagonist with Chi Shi Zhi

• Invigorate blood, dispel blood stasis, alleviate pain - trauma, carbuncles and swellings, chest and/or abdominal pain.
• Relax the sinews, invigorates the channels, alleviates pain - bi syndromes, rigidity, spasms.
• Reduces swellings, generates flesh - topically for sores, carbuncles, traumatic injury.

• Avoid During Pregnancy

• Tonifies blood and enriches yin - dizziness, tinnitus, insomnia, premature graying of the hair.
• Constipation due to blood deficiency in the elderly, xiao ke due to yin deficiency.

• Opens the orifices, revives the spirit, unblocks closed disorders (a wide variety of problems that impair consciousness) - heat entering the pericardium, convulsions, delirium, stupor fainting, closed disorders, tetanic collapse, phlegm collapse, seizures.
• Invigorates the blood, dissipates clumps, reduces swelling, alleviates pain - toxic sores, carbuncles, fixed masses, channel obstructions due to trauma.

• Do not use during pregnancy.

• Clears Heat, Cools Blood. High fever, thirst, scarlet tongue, hemorrhage due to heat in the Blood.
• Nourishes Yin, Generates Fluids. Yin Deficiency with heat signs with injury to body fluids. Dry mouth, low-grade fever, constipation, throat pain from yin deficiency.
• Cools Ascending Heart Fire (HT, LV). Mouth and tongue sores, irritability, insomnia, malar flush.
• Wasting thirst disorder.

Spleen Deficiency, Yang Deficiency, Damp Phlegm, Digestion Difficulties.

• Opens the orifices, vaporizes phlegm, quiets the spirit - sensory orifice disorders due to phlegm, deafness, dizziness, poor memory, dulled sensation, seizures.
• Harmonize the middle warmer, transform turbid damp, abdominal pain.
• Wind-cold damp - painful obstruction, trauma and sores.

• This is the root of Sheng Di Huang (steamed and dried, or soaked in red wine and dried).
• Tonify blood for blood deficiency with dizziness, pallid complexion, palpitations, insomnia, irregular menses, uterine bleeding, post partum bleeding.
• Nourish yin - kidney yin deficiency with nightsweats, xiao ke, steaming bone disorder, nocturnal emissions.

• Opens the orifices, penetrates through turbidity - for closed disorders, phlegm blockages, epidemic toxic disease, especially cold disorders.
• Pain in the chest and abdomen.

• This is the deep fried version of Gui Ban.  For more information see the Gui Ban page.  Deep frying helps to moderate the cold action of the herb.

• Invigorate blood, reduce swelling - post partum abdominal pain, amenorrhea, pain and swelling due to trauma.
• Stops bleeding - excessive post partum bleeding with vertigo and shortness of breath.

• Nourishes heart yin, tonifies liver blood, quiets the spirit - irritability, insomnia, palpitations, anxiety due to blood or yin deficiency.
• Prevents abnormal sweating - spontaneous sweating, nightsweats.

• Breaks up blood stasis (important herb) - menstrual disorders, abdominal pain/masses, trauma, flank pain, lung abscess, intestinal abscess.
• Moistens intestines, unblock bowels - constipation due to dry intestines.

• Avoid During Pregnancy

• Clears and transforms phlegm-heat - difficult to expectorate sputum.
• Clears heat and arrests convulsions - spasms, convulsions due to phlegm-heat, especially in children.

• Breaks up and drives out blood stasis - wide variety of blood stasis such as abdominal masses and amenorrhea, numb and swollen tongue due to blood stasis.
• Renews joints, sinews, bones - contusions, fractures, lacerations.

• Avoid During Pregnancy

• Constrain leakage of lung qi, enriches kidney yin - chronic cough and wheezing due to kidney and lung deficiency.
• Tonify the kidneys, bind the essence, stop diarrhea - nocturnal emission, spermatorrhea, leukorrhea, frequent urination, daybreak diarrhea.
• Inhibits sweating, generates fluids - thirst with excess sweat, spontaneous sweating, nightsweats, xiao ke.
• Quiet the spirit, calm the heart - irritability, palpitations, insomnia due to blood deficiency or kidney and heart yin injury.

• Do Not Use With Presence Of OPI.

• Clears summerheat and generates fluids - thirst, dry heaves, scanty urine.
• Promotes urination and expels jaundice.

• Clears Heat, Relieves Fire Toxicity, Cools Blood, Arrests Tremors. Erythema, nosebleed, vomiting blood, delirium, convulsions, manic behavior, loss of consciousness.

Pregnancy, Yin Deficiency Fever, Incompatible (antagonist) with Chuan Wu Tou and Cao Wu Tou.

• Benefits qi, generates fluids, nourishes yin - for yin deficiency with heat signs, weakness, irritability and thirst after a febrile disease.
• Nurtures lung yin and clears fire from the lungs - wheezing, coughing up blood streaked sputum, loss of voice due to lung yin deficiency.

• Clears heat and alleviates spasms - high fever and convulsions in febrile disease.
• Topically to relieve fire toxicity, hot skin lesions.
• Red, painful eyes due to liver fire.
• Reduces swelling and pain - trauma, sprains, fracture, hemorrhoids.

• Relieves toxicity, kills parasites, stops itching, inflammation, abscess.
• Topically - scabies, ringworm, dam rashes.
• Kills parasites - accumulation symptoms with roundworms.
• Dries dampness, expels phlegm - wheezing, seizures, malarial conditions.

• Generally, Avoid Using This Herb.

• Dispels blood stasis, relieves pain - traumatic injury, fractures, contusion, sprains, bruising.
• Stops bleeding (topically) - external injury.
• Protects decay of ulcer's surface, generates flesh - chronic non-healing sores.

• Avoid during Pregnancy.

• Invigorate blood, alleviate pain - pain from blood stasis and trauma, dysmenorrhea.
• Promotes movement of Qi and alleviates pain - chest pain, abdominal pain, menstrual pain, hernial disorders, epigastric pain.

• Avoid during Pregnancy.

• Calms the spirit, nourishes the heart and blood - insomnia, irritability, dream disturbed sleep from yin and/or blood deficiency.
• Nourishes the blood and unblocks the channels - generalized weakness, soreness, pain, numbness due to blood deficiency.
• Alleviates itching - external wash for itching and skin rashes.

• Invigorates blood and regulates menses for gynecological issues - PMS, abdominal pain, irregular menses, abdominal masses, infertility, post partum abdominal pain w/lochioschesis, stasis from blood deficiency.
• Promotes urination and reduces swelling - acute systemic edema.

• Avoid during Pregnancy.

• Invigorate blood, break up stasis - used topically and internally for traumatic pain, and to speed healing process of chronic sores.
• Promotes movement of Qi - liver qi stagnation, menstrual pain, chest, flank pain.
• Clears heat, cools blood - hot phlegm obstructs heart orifices with symptoms like anxiety, agitation, seizures.
• Benefits gallbladder - jaundice.

• Avoid during Pregnancy.

• Calms the spirit, quiets the heart - insomnia, palpitations, anxiety, restlessness.
• Expels phlegm from the lungs, clears the heart orifices - copious sputum, mental confusion, seizures.
• Reduces abscesses, dissipate swellings - boils, sores, painful breasts.

• Clears and transforms phlegm-heat - acute lung heat with productive cough.
• Clears heat, dissipates nodules (better than Chuan Bei Mu - for phlegm-fire congealing and causing neck swellings, lung and breast abscesses and swellings.

• Antagonist with Wu Tou.

• Sedates the heart - tremor, palpitations, seizures, childhood convulsions.
• Clears the liver - blurred vision.
• Promotes healing, generates flesh - ulcers of the gums or throat.

• This preparation increases the qi tonifying aspects of the heart and spleen along with its general harmonizing function within formulas.  See Gan Cao for complete information.

• This is the honey fried version of Yuan Zhi.  See the Yuan Zhi page for more usage information.

• Clears heat (Heart and Liver), eliminates irritability - heat patterns with fever, restlessness, insomnia, delirium, stifling sensation in the chest.
• Drains damp heat - lin (urinary dysfunction) syndrome due to damp-heat in the lower warmer, damp-heat and constrained liver and gallbladder causing jaundice, damp-heat in the gall bladder and triple heater channels of the face - eyes, nose, sores in the mouth and face.
• Cools the blood, stops bleeding - nosebleed, blood in vomit, stool, urine; (needs to partially charred).
• Topically for blood stasis due to trauma, reduces swelling.

• Avoid in patients with loose stools and/or loss of appetite due to cold from deficiency.

• Sedates the heart, calms the spirit - restlessness, palpitations, anxiety, insomnia, convulsion.
• Clears heat, relieves toxicity - carbuncles, sore throat.

• Mercury Toxicity.

• Clears Heat, Cools the Blood, Relieves Fire Toxicity while Venting Rashes. Encourages rashes to surface, often for fire toxin with very dark purple rashes.
• Topically. Clears damp heat, damp heat skin lesion, vaginal itching, burns.
• Moisten Intestines, Unblock Bowels. Heat in the blood with constipation.

• Clears heat and fire toxicity - hot swellings, red, swollen eyes, throat, and/or ears; mumps.
• Clears hot sores - sores and abscesses of the head and/or back.