Aromatherapy Functions in Chinese Medicine
Clears Heat; Dries and Disinhibits Damp; Fights Infection: gastritis, burning diarrhea, chronic diarrhea, mucous colitis, enteritis, dysentery, colitis, yellowish vaginal discharge, seminal emission, hot and burning cystitis, gonorrhea, vaginitis; respiratory infection; bronchitis with thick, yellow mucous; painful cough, sore throat (gargle with a very low dose).

Tonifies Yin: night sweats with fever, dry cough, chronic dry cough, Lung tuberculosis.

Rectifies the Skin: dry skin, skin irritation, itching, dermatitis, eczema, psoriasis.

Moves Blood; Moves Qi; Stops Pain: insomnia, palpitations, chest pain, nervous exhaustion, frigidity, infertility; varicose veins, hemorrhoids; angina, chest pain, neuralgia, neuritis, sciatica.

Calms and Frees the Spirit; Normalizes the Yi/Intention; Rectifies the Intellect; Benefits Meditation and Creative Thinking: tyranny of the intellect, obsessive worry, loss of endurance, depression, melancholy, over-attachment, neurotic need for security.