Sexual taste: bitter, cold.

Meridian tropism: lung, gallbladder, spleen, large intestine and small intestine meridians.

Indications: clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, purging fire and detoxifying, stopping bleeding and preventing miscarriage. It can be used for treating chest distress and nausea, fullness due to damp-heat and summer heat, diarrhea and jaundice, cough due to lung heat, high fever and polydipsia, vomiting due to blood heat, carbuncle, sore, and fetal movement disorder.