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Cools the Liver and extinguishes Wind

Extreme Heat stirring Liver Wind, as in the severe stage of a febrile disease or Heat at the Blood level of a warm disease Persistent high fever, thirst, irritability and restlessness Twitching and spasm of the limbs; in severe cases convulsions with a stiff neck, arching of the back, or loss of consciousness Severe headache, dizziness and vertigo, ringing in the ears or deafness, bitter taste, dry throat and insomnia Tongue deep red and dry, or burnt-looking with prickles, with a dry yellow coat; pulse wiry and rapid, or wiry and smooth

Increases fluids, relaxes the sinews and stops convulsions

Heat drying up the fluids so the sinews lose their suppleness

Clears Phlegm-Heat

Phlegm blocking the Heart orifice, tense (Yang) type, possibly with thick yellow sputum

Modern uses

High fever with convulsions in children Encephalitis B Meningitis Hypertensive encephalopathy Essential hypertension Cerebrovascular accident Stroke Post-stroke sequelae Hemiplegia Aphasia Facial paralysis Post-concussion syndrome Convulsions Mania with convulsions Eclampsia Seizures and epilepsy in pregnancy Headache Dizziness Vertigo Meniere's disease Tinnitus Deafness Catarrhal otitis media Glaucoma Insomnia Stiff neck Fever Pneumonia Ebola Shingles Lupus erythematosus Kidney failure Liver cancer Chromaffinoma Dysentery Constipation Epistaxis Bad breath ling yang jiao gou teng sang ye ju hua Bai Shao sheng di huang chuan bei mu zhu ru fu shen gan cao