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Clears Heat and resolves Fire toxicity

Hot, painful, swollen sores, boils and skin eruptions at any stage, often with fever, especially of the breast (mastitis), throat or eyes Infections, including herpes simplex Intestinal abscess, carbuncles, abscesses, pimples and toxic sores (Chuang Yung)

Vents and disperses Wind-Heat from the Exterior

Onset of Wind-Heat or Warm disease, such as a common cold, with headache, a sore throat, fever and chills, and mild dislike of Wind Summerheat from the Exterior

Clears Damp-Heat from the Lower Jiao

Lower Jiao Damp-Heat with dysentery, diarrhea or Lin syndrome Abscess of the Intestines from Damp-Heat

Cools the Blood and stops bleeding (charred)

Dysentery with Blood Heat Heat that has reached the Ying or Blood level in Warm disease, within combined formulas