Actions:

• Clears true heat in the qi level: for high fever. Irritability and a rapid and flooding pulse. Very effective at clearing heat in the stomach and lungs, with intense thirst and thick yellow sputum.
• Moistens dryness and nourishes yin: for lung and kidney yin deficiency with night sweats, five centers heat, afternoon fevers, steaming bone fever, or irritability. Also for spermatorrhea and leakage of vital essence.
• Generates fluids: for thirst, dry and ulcerated mouth, dry throat, and for wasting and thirsting disorder.

Contraindications:

• Do not use if patient has diarrhea.

Dosage:

• 6-12g. Frying in saltwater will strengthen ability to benefit the kidneys and will direct the actions of a formula downward. Part used = rhizome.