Yuzhu tea is of great help to patients with hypertension, angina pectoris, chloasma and other diseases, and also has a good effect on weakness and chronic cough of the elderly after illness. Both ancient China and ancient Koryo nationalities used the custom of boiling water with Yuzhu to keep fit.

Many people in Guangdong will use Polygonatum odoratum as soup material, and Polygonatum odoratum is also one of the materials for folk lactation.

Autumn is the best season to eat Polygonatum odoratum. The famous "Qingbuliang" soup is made of Polygonatum odoratum, Radix Adenophorae, Rhizoma Dioscoreae, longan, lotus seeds, lilies and Coicis Semen, which is very suitable for eating in autumn and dry season.

These people are not suitable for eating Polygonatum odoratum: people with spleen deficiency and loose stool and phlegm dampness are not suitable for eating Polygonatum odoratum, and people with diarrhea (cold), abdominal distension, dislike drinking water and excessive phlegm are not suitable for eating Polygonatum odoratum.

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"Notes on Materia Medica" says that "the stem is hard, like a bamboo shaft, with knots." So it was named Yuzhu. The roots of plants can be used as medicine, and Chinese medicine is also called Polygonatum odoratum. Picking in autumn, washing, sun-drying until soft, repeatedly rubbing, sun-drying, or steaming, rubbing until translucent, sun-drying, and cutting into thick pieces or sections for later use. Flavonoids extracted from Polygonatum odoratum combined with deoxynojirimycin extracted from mulberry leaves to form a new substance, which has the functions of lowering blood sugar, blood lipid and blood pressure.

economic value

Polygonatum odoratum has the effects of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, and relieving cough. Used as a tonic medicine, it is mainly used to treat diseases such as fever and yin injury, deficiency-heat and dry cough, heart disease, diabetes, tuberculosis, etc. It can also be used as advanced nourishing food, delicacies and drinks, which has health care function and is worth planting by farmers.

References:

Yuzhu _ Baidu encyclopedia