Actions:

• Relieves summerheat, generates fluids, and promotes urination: for patterns associated with summerheat, especially when there is excess thirst, dry heaves, or scanty urination.
• Reduces jaundice: used with other substances in treating icteric hepatitis.

Contraindications:

• Caution in cases of damp-cold and cold from deficiency of the spleen and stomach.

Dosage:

• 15-30 Grams. Part used = juice.