Reed Rhizome Extract,cold in nature, it acts on the lung and stomach channels. The cold property clears the heat, the moist quality promotes the production of body fluid and the sweet flavour eliminates dampness. The herb can clear away the heat in lung and stomach, promote the production of body fluid to quench thirst and induce diuresis for treating stranguria as well. The potency of the herb is relatively weak, so it has the action of astringing the pathogenic factors without impairing the vital-Qi. It is therefore applied to febrile diseases manifested as impairment of the body fluid and excessive thirst.
1. Clears heat, generates fluids - heat patterns with high fever, irritability, thirst.
2. Clears lung heat - cough, thick yellow sputum.
3. Clears stomach heat - vomiting, belching.
4. Clears heat, diuretic - dark, scanty urine, xue lin, accompanied by thirst and irritability.
5. Encourages rashes to the surface - for febrile disease with rashes that are incompletely expressed