What Are the Medical Uses of Polygonatum?

Yuzhu is also known as cormorant, because its stems will wither and fall in autumn and winter, and the flowers droop (), the flowers are beautiful. Yuzhu has the effects of nourishing yin, moistening dryness, removing annoyance, and quenching thirst. Yuzhu is called top grade in Compendium of Materia Medica, suitable for men, women, and children. Its tonic effect can be compared with ginseng and astragalus. Modern medical research also shows that Yuzhu contains various glycosides and amino acids, zinc, manganese and other nutrients that have health effects on the human body. It can protect the heart and blood vessels, clean up garbage in the body, and delay aging.

Yuzhu tea

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1. Yuzhu is sweet and fatty, soft and moist, it is a good medicine for nourishing yin. The vitamin A contained in Yuzhu can improve the condition of chapped and rough skin and make it soft and smooth. Plays the role of beauty skin care. 2. Yuzhu contains steroidal glycosides, which have similar effects on myocardium as the lily of the valley preparations. Polygonatum odoratum has a heart-strengthening effect on isolated frog hearts, and the effect of Polygonatum odoratum is similar to that of Polygonatum odoratum. 3 Intraperitoneal injection of Yuzhu extract can enhance phagocytosis of peritoneal macrophages in burned mice, increase serum hemolysin antibody levels, and improve the proliferation response of spleen lymphocytes to ConA. ^[1]

Put the tea bag into the cup, pour about 120 ml of boiling water, and wait patiently for about 3 minutes before drinking.

Perennial herb, 40 ~ 65cm tall. Stems with longitudinal ribs. Leaves alternate, oval or narrowly elliptic. Apex obtuse. Inflorescences are axillary, with 1 to 3 flowers, and growers can have up to 8 flowers; total pedicels are 1 to 1.5 cm long; perianth tube-shaped, 1.5 to 2 cm long, lobes 6, white or apex yellow-green; stamens 6, filaments nearly smooth To have nipple-like protrusions. Berries are blue-black when ripe. Flowering from April to May, fruiting from August to October.

After harvesting and digging in autumn, remove the fibrous roots, wash, dry until soft, then rub repeatedly, dry until there is no hard heart, and dry; or after steaming, knead until translucent and dry.

Characters The rhizomes are long cylindrical, slightly flat, and rarely branched. The surface is yellowish white or pale yellowish brown, translucent, with longitudinal wrinkles and slightly raised links, with white dot-like fibrous scar marks, and stem marks disc-shaped. Hard and brittle or slightly soft, easy to break, horny or grainy in section. Weary. Sweet and sticky.

The rhizome contains odoratan and 4 kinds of polygonatum-fructan-OA (B, C, D), and also azetidin-2-carboxylic acid. .

The taste is cold and sweet.

Nourish yin, moisturize, and quench thirst. For lung and stomach yin injury, hot and dry cough, dry throat and thirst, internal heat and thirst.

Can be served, and soup is best. Brew with the appropriate amount of Dianthus, known as "Yin Yang Tea".