Excerpted from Bensky;  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

• Clears summerheat:  especially for summerheat with low fever, headache, dizziness, and a stifling sensation in the chest.*
• Clears fever from deficiency:  for fevers from either blood deficiency or as the sequelae of a febrile disease.  Especially useful when steaming bone patterns are marked by an absence of sweating.*
• Cools the blood and stops bleeding:  for purpuric rashes or nosebleed due to heat in the blood.*
• Checks malarial disorders and resolves heat:  for the alternating fever and chills of malarial disorders.*