Lian Qiao

Actions:

• Clears heat toxins and disperses lumps and nodules: for all sores from heat including abscesses, neck lumps, scrofula, and carbuncles.
• Clears wind-heat: for wind-heat common cold. Also effective in treating high fever, thirst, and delirium.

Contraindications:

• Do not uses in Yin type abscesses or carbuncles that have already ulcerated. Also contraindicated in cases of diarrhea resulting from spleen and stomach deficiency.

Dosage:

• 6-15g. Part used = fruit when just about to ripen.