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title: "Yu Zhu"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/640/yu-zhu"
---

 ![yu zhu, polygonati odorati rhizoma.jpg](/u/yu-zhu-polygonati-odorati-rhizoma-Md7fTJ.jpg) 

# Yu Zhu

### Polygonati Odorati Rhizoma

_sweet, slightly cold_

#### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Tonify Yin**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Cough
- Dry throat
- Irritability
- Thirst
- Bone pain
- Dysglycemia
- Increased hunger
- Constipation
- Soft tissue spasms
- Dizziness

Yu Zhu is sweet and slightly cold. It enters the stomach and lung
systems to treat deficiency heat patterns.

**Channels:** lung, stomach

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Dizziness
- Dysglycemia
- Constipation
- Fever
- Cough
- Irritability
- Dyslipidemia

**Formulas:**
- Jia Jian Wei Rui Tang
- Sha Shen Mai Dong Tang
- Yi Wei Tang

**Contraindications:** do not prescribe Yu Zhu to patients with
poor digestive function with related loose stools

**Zoo Image:** a turtle is taking his lungs and stomach to Yinny’s Moist Cleaners
that has flowers growing from its vent and avoids Sandy’s Dry Cleaning that
has wind and dryness and a bird has found a dried up spasmed hand

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