Da Jin Ying

Description:

With the property of bitter and extremely cold, it has a much stronger action of clearing heat and cooling blood. It can clear heat and purge fire when entering qi system, and cool blood and remove macula when entering blood system, so it is commonly indicated for any stage of warm diseases and external contraction of wind-heat. For initial warm diseases when the pathogens stay in defense system, or external contraction of wind-heat manifested as fever, headache, thirst and sore throat, it should be combined with wind-heat-dispersing herbs. In addition, it is also indicated for bleeding syndrome due to blood heat for it has the actions of cooling blood; since it has the actions of clearing heat from lung, stomach and liver, it can also be used in treating cough due to lung heat, jaundice due to liver heat, and diarrhea and dysentery due to stomach heat.