Actions/Indications:
1. Promotes sweating, releases the exterior: wind-cold excess and deficiency patterns
2. Warms, opens channels and collaterals: Bi zheng (wind-cold-damp)
3. Warms yang to eliminate water or phlegm stagnation: edema, dysuria, phlegm retention
4. Warms yang in the chest: painful chest obstruction (Xiong bi)
5. Warms yang in Chong and Ren to regulate menstruation: irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea
Cautions: Warm febrile disorder, yin deficient heat, blood heat, heat disorders.
Use with caution in px with excessive menstruation, risk of bleeding, during pregnancy
