Description:

海玉竹 （8oz/包）

海玉竹是一味中药，属黄精的一种，具清热、养阴、生津、润燥、润肺的作用，这些与普通的玉竹功效大致相同，不过海玉竹还能调和人体气血运行，亦能降血脂和血压，而且味道较香无酸味，因此售价上要比玉竹贵。

性味

甘，平。

功效

本品为百合科植物玉竹的干燥根茎。 治热病阴伤，咳嗽烦渴，虚劳发热，消谷易饥，小便频数。

经脉

入肺经、胃经。

主治

养阴，润燥，除烦，止渴。治热病阴伤，咳嗽烦渴，虚劳发热，消谷易饥，小便频数。

用法用量

• 内服：煎汤，6~12g；熬膏、浸酒或入丸、散。
• 外用：适量，鲜品捣敷；或熬膏涂。阴虚有热宜生用，热不甚者宜制用。

注意禁忌

胃有痰湿气滞者忌服。

Rhizome of Fragrant Solomonseal /Hai Yu Zhu (8 oz)

P. sibiricum is a medicinal plant and widely consumed as tea. The plant is capable of reducing blood glucose and lipid levels, regulating and enhancing the immune system, and fighting aging. However, there are no reports on the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4027316/

Solomon's seal is an herb. It is sometimes used to make medicine. Solomon's seal is used for lung disorders, swelling (inflammation), and skin conditions such as bruises, boils, and hemorrhoids. https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-128/solomons-seal

From the manufacturer: 

Polygonatum odoratum is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. It is a kind of Polygonatum. It has the effects of clearing heat, nourishing yin, promoting body fluid, moisturizing dryness and moisturizing the lungs. These functions are roughly the same as ordinary polygonatum, but it can also regulate the movement of human blood; it can also lower blood fat and blood pressure, and the taste is more fragrant without sourness, so the price is more expensive than polygonatum. 

The taste is sweet and mild. This product is the dried rhizome of Polygonatum odoratum. It has been used to cure the febrile injury, cough and polydipsia, asthenia and fever, excess hunger, and frequent urination. It enters the Lung and Stomach meridians.

Indications: To nourish yin, moisturize dryness, relieve irritability, quench thirst. 

Dosage: Oral administration: decoction, 6~12g; boil ointment, soak in wine or pill or powder.

External use: appropriate amount, fresh product pounded and applied; or boiled ointment applied. If there is heat in yin deficiency, it is better to produce and use [internally]. 

Cautions: People with phlegm and dampness in the stomach [nausea, excess saliva and diarrhea] should not take it.