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What is yucca, please?
Yuzhu:

Chinese herbal medicine

Generated from the lily family. It is classified as a top quality medicine in the Divine Husbandman's Classic of the Materia Medica. Li Shizhen said: "Its leaves are glossy like bamboo, and its roots are long and knobby, so it has the names of jade bamboo and earth knots".

Taste

Sweet, flat, non-toxic.

Composition

Contains alkaloid, cardiac glycosides

(Suzuranoside

, Suzuranoside, etc.), mucilage, hydrolyzed to produce fructose, glucose and ala high-quality products, gum sugar. In addition, it also contains albuterol acid, spinach acid, vitamin A-like substances, and has a significant biological alkaline reaction.

Pharmacology

The belladonna glucoside of yucca has a cardiotonic effect, which increases and strengthens the heartbeat in small doses, and the opposite in large doses. The cardiac and vascular effects of yucca decoction are consistent with the effects of yucca glycosides reported in the literature.

Utilities

The main treatment of seasonal diseases, cold and heat, internal tonic deficiency, quenching thirst, moistening the heart and lungs.