Aromatherapy Functions in Chinese Medicine
Increases the Guardian Qi; Promotes Sweat and Rids Wind; Unties the Exterior and Reduces Fever: common colds, sinusitis, laryngitis, cough with copious yellow-green sputum, sore throat, acute and chronic bronchitis, emphysema, pneumonia, wheezing, Lung tuberculosis, chronic bronchitis; high fever with sore and swollen throat and painful sinuses; periodic fevers (both Lesser Yang fevers where the fevers and chills alternate during the day and Lesser Yin fevers where the fevers recur a daily or every several days); respiratory infections, throat infections.

Promotes Eruptions: measles, chickenpox, scarlet fever.

Dries Damp; Transforms Damp in the Lung and Relieves Cough: urogenital infections, skin infections; cystitis, leucorrhea.

Stops Pain: muscle and joint aches, headache, migraine; cold, cramping rheumatic pain.

Promotes Tissue Repair: burns, injuries, ulcers.

Regulates Blood Sugar:diabetes, hypoglycemia.

Opens the Chest: melancholy, emotional constriction and suffocation.

Expels Worms: roundworm, pinworm, lice.

Rids Insects: insect repellent.