Yuzhu is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, has the effect of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, generating fluids to remove vexation, quenching thirst, and has the effect of tranquilizing and strengthening the heart, nourishing and calming the nerves, which is good for palpitations and angina pectoris to alleviate the effect.

Yuzhu can also lower blood sugar and improve the body's glucose tolerance. Yucca can also emollient, anti-inflammatory, for chronic skin inflammation, bruises have effect, Yucca can treat rheumatic heart disease, coronary heart disease, tuberculosis, chronic bronchitis, gastric ulcer and so on.

Yuzhu is used to dry rhizomes as medicine, rhizomes mainly contain mucopolysaccharides of Yuzhu, but also contains steroidal compounds such as Huangjing spirosterol, Huangjing spirosterol glycosides, sweet, slightly cold, with the effect of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, generating fluids and quenching thirst, used for the lungs and stomach, yin injury, dry and hot cough, dry throat, thirst, thirst, and other internal heat syndrome. In addition to being used as a dispensing herb in traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions, it is also often processed into products such as drinking tablets, health food, health drinks and beauty care products.

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Yuzhu is widely distributed in the temperate regions of the Eurasian continent, and in China it is found in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Nei Mongol, Gansu, Qinghai, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, and Taiwan.

The yucca is more adaptable to environmental conditions, the soil conditions are not strict, but floodplains, saline, clay, sand and gravel land types should not grow. General temperature at 10-15 ℃ when the rhizome seedlings, 20-22 ℃ when flowering, 22-25 ℃ when the underground root growth and thickening. Yucca is suitable for growing in moist, deep soil, loose soil. It can be planted in the understory of slow mountain slopes and low hills. Jade bamboo is cold hardy, avoiding strong direct light. Often found in the understory or shady slopes of mountains and fields, at an altitude of 500-3000 meters.

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