The rhizomes of yuzhu can be used for medicinal purposes, also known as yuzhu in traditional Chinese medicine. They are harvested in the fall, washed, sun-dried to softness, rubbed repeatedly, dried until there is no hard center, sun-dried, or steamed through, rubbed until translucent, sun-dried, and sliced into thick slices or segments to be used.

Yuzhu is sweet and slightly cold, into the lung, stomach meridian, with nourishing yin and moistening dryness, benefit qi and stomach, the role of the body to promote the production of fluids to quench thirst, can be used to treat fever and injury to the yin, diabetes, dry cough with little phlegm, dry tongue and thirst, dry mouth and throat, tuberculosis, heart disease and other diseases.

The role of bamboo is more moderate, cooked with nourishing and nourishing Yin more. The taste of sweetness and calmness, stomach heat and lung heat more dry cough. It can be used to nourish yin, dry tongue and thirst.