Yu Zhu
Name: Aromatic Solomon's Seal (玉竹)
Pinyin: Yu Zhu
Pharm. Name: Rhizoma Polygonatum Odoratum
Properties:
|
Taste |
Characteristics |
Organs |
Dosage |
|
Sweet, Bland |
Nourish yin of lung and stomach, clear heat of lung and stomach. |
Lung, Stomach |
6-30g |
Description:
The rhizome of the perennial herbaceous plant, “Polygonatum Odoratum”. This herb is indicated for dry cough with little phlegm, cough with blood, and hoarseness due to yin deficiency, dryness in the lung with heat, because it can nourish lung yin, and clear lung heat slightly. It is commonly combined with herbs of nourishing yin, moistening dryness, clearing lung, and relieving coughs. It can also nourish stomach yin, produce fluid and relieve thirst and clear stomach heat with more drinking, hunger but no appetite, dry stool, no coating or red tongue with little fluid, or stomachache, distending in the stomach, retching, and other symptoms due to stomach yin deficiency.