Chinese name:

Source:

Arctii Fructus - fruit

Nature:

• cool (cooling, balanced, warm, yang, yin within yang)

Taste:

• acrid, bitter

Tropism:

• lungs and stomach (liver)

Direction of action:

• emerging

Effects:

• disperses FENG RE, restores the throat, reveals rashes

Dosage:

• 3 – 10 g, standardly 6 g

Contraindications:

• do not use for loose stools due to spleen deficiency, not suitable for qi deficiency manifesting as a pale face