Chinese Herb Actions

• Drains Fire and Relieves Toxins
  For fire symptoms such as high fever, irritability, delirium, red tongue, and full and rapid pulse. Also for heat with toxicity causing painful red eyes, sore throat, and for toxic skin lesions.
• Drains Dampness and Clears Heat
  For Damp-Heat in the stomach with vomiting or acid regurgitation, or stomach fire with bad breath and belching with a foul smell, and for Damp-Heat in the intestines with diarrhea or dysentery.
• Calms Heart Fire
  For insomnia due to the Heart and Kidneys miscommunication.
• Clears Heat, Stops Bleeding
  For epistaxis, Blood in the stool, urine, or vomit.
• Used topically to clear heat in the eyes, tongue, and mouth.

Chinese Herb Contraindications & Cautions

• Caution in cases of Yin or blood deficiency, stomach cold, or diarrhea from spleen and kidney deficiency. Long term use may injure the spleen and stomach. Some traditional sources say this herb should not be taken with pork, and may antagonize Radix Scrophulariae Ningpoensis (xuan shen), Flos Chrysanthemi Morifolii (ju hua), Bombyx Batryticatus (jiang can), Cortex Dictamni Dasycarpi Radicis (bai xian pi), and Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae, (niu xi).