Aromatherapy Functions in Chinese Medicine
Increases the Guardian Qi; Dispels Pathogens; Fights Infection; Stimulates Immunity; Transforms Damp in the Lung; Promotes Sweat; and Rids Wind Cold; Anti-bacterial, Anti-viral, Anti-fungal, Antiseptic; Rids Poisons; Rids Parasites: infections and eruptive fevers; mouth, gum and throat infections; hot respiratory infections, bacterial infections of the bronchi, chronic bronchitis, colds, whooping cough, pulmonary tuberculosis, pneumonia, asthma.

Stops Pain: chronic rheumatism, muscular pain.

Rectifies the Skin: warts, infected cuts, wounds, waterlogged skin, insect stings, cellulite.

Opens the Orifices: deafness, pain or noise in the ears, migraines.

Rectifies, Frees, and Arouses the Spirit; Normalizes the Yi/Intention: mental disease, facial tics, imaginary diseases and mental psychopathic conditions, feelings of insecurity.

Fortifies the Stomach and Spleen: nervous stomach disorders, intestinal spasm, flatulence, lack of appetite, bacterial infections of the gastrointestinal tract.

Regulates and Normalizes the Menses: menstrual difficulties, retained placenta.