Excerpted from Bensky; Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.
- Clears summerheat: especially for summerheat with low fever, headache, dizziness, and a stifling sensation in the chest.*
- Clears fever from deficiency: for fevers from either blood deficiency or as the sequelae of a febrile disease. Especially useful when steaming bone patterns are marked by an absence of sweating.*
- Cools the blood and stops bleeding: for purpuric rashes or nosebleed due to heat in the blood.*
- Checks malarial disorders and resolves heat: for the alternating fever and chills of malarial disorders.*
