Channels: LIV, LU

Properties: Sweet, Bitter, Slightly Cold

Common: Chrysanthemum Flower

Latin: Flos Chrysanthemi Morifolii

Actions:

• Releases wind and heat: for wind-heat syndromes with fever, headache, red, painful, dry eyes.
• Clears heat in the liver channel: used for wind-heat affecting the eyes, or yin deficiency of the liver and kidneys causing blurred vision, dizziness, and spots in front of the eyes.
• Stops wind: used to calm the liver and relieve symptoms of ascending liver yang.

Contraindications:

• Caution in patients with qi Deficiency, diarrhea, and poor appetite.

Dosage:

• 4.5-15g. Part used = flower head.