Yuzhu is flat in nature, neither cold nor hot.

Yuzhu is a common life of a kind of Chinese medicine, is the lily plant yuzhu's dry rhizome, mainly distributed in China's Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and other areas, sweet taste and flat and slightly cold, with a certain amount of nourishing yin moistening dryness, the role of the body to promote the production of fluids to quench the thirst, is neither cold nor hot.

The yuzhu generally does not appear to be on fire, yuzhu has the effect of tonifying the kidney and benefiting the essence, is one of the more common nourishing Chinese medicine. Fire may be caused by eating spicy food frequently, which will be accompanied by pain in the gums, and also coughing and coughing up phlegm, which can be treated with heat-clearing and detoxifying medicines.

Traits of the herb:

Long cylindrical, slightly flattened, rarely branched, 4-18 cm long, 0.3-1.6 cm in diameter. yellowish-white or light yellowish-brown surface, translucent, with longitudinal wrinkles and slightly elevated segments, white dotted whisker root scars and discoidal stem scars. The texture is hard and brittle or slightly soft, easy to break, the cross-section of keratin-like or show granularity. It has a slight odor, sweet taste, and is sticky when chewed.