Properties: The herb is sweet and slightly bitter in flavour, slightly cold in nature and acts on the lung and stomach channels. Sweet in flavour, moist in nature, bitter and cold for nourishing Yin and clearing heat, the herb can not only clear lung-heat and nourish lung-yin but also clear stomach-heat and nourish stomach-yin. It is indicated for dry cough due to impairment of Yin cased by dryness in the lung, for thirst due to consumption of the body fluid caused by febrile disease, and for other syndromes.
Effects: Nourishing Yin to clear heat from the lung, and tonifying the stomach to promote the production of the body fluid.
