Aromatherapy Functions in Chinese Medicine
Increases the Guardian Qi; Promotes Sweat; Rids Wind Cold; Unties the Exterior and Reduces Fever; Opens the Sinuses: beginning of colds and flu with chills, fever, headache and fatigue, malaria, cholera; cold extremities; sinusitis.

Antidotes Poison: general infections, food poisoning; animal bites.

Rectifies the Brain and Eyes: dizziness, loss of concentration, absent-mindedness; poor vision; lack of courage, and bravery, timidity over speaking in public.

Fortifies the Stomach and Spleen and Rids Phlegm: loose stool, loss of appetite, nausea, colic, epigastric pain, gurgling and distended abdomen, gastroenteritis.

Tonifies Reproductive Qi; Disinhibits Damp: edema, leg and ankle edema, backache; sexual disinterest, impotence, prolapse of the intestines or uterus.