Fragrant Solomonseal Rhizome (Yuzhu)
| Pharmaceutical Name: | Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati |
| Botanical Name: | Polygonatum odoratum (Mill.) Druce |
| Common Name: | Polygonatum rhizome Fragrant Solomonseal rhizome |
| Source of Earliest Record: | Shennong Bencao Jing |
| art Used & Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations: | The rhizomes are dug in summer and autumn. After the fibrous roots have been removed, the rhizomes are dried in the sun or steamed, and cut into pieces. |
| Properties and Taste: | Sweet and neutral |
| Meridian: | Lung and stomach |
| Functions: | To nourish the yin and moisten the lungs To promote the production of body fluids and strengthen the stomach |
| Indications and Combinations: | Dry cough with scanty sputum due to lung deficiency or thirst and intense hunger due to stomach yin deficiency. *Use with Glehnia root (Shashen), Ophiopogon root (Maidong) and Asparagus root (Tianmendong). |
| Dosage: | 10-15 g |
| Cautions: | This herb is contraindicated in cases with deficient spleen or phlegm-damp. |