Sweet in smell and peculiarly sweet in taste. It is about five hundred times the sweetness of cane sugar. t
onifies pi (spleen), enhances qi, clears heat, rids of toxins, expels phlegm and stops cough, stops pain, synergizes other herbs. Being used in spleen and stomach weakness, tired and lack of strength, palpitation and short of breath, cough with abundance of phlegm, stomach and solar plexus pain, spastic painful limbs, boils, to reduce toxicity of other herbs.