Zhi Mu can pat your kidneys and rub your lungs and belly at the same time. It's a multi-tasker. A Renaissance herb. A jack of a couple of trades. While working to clear heat and drain fire from the Lungs and Stomach, it is simultaneously nourishing the yin of the Kidneys, Lung and Stomach. I, for one, am impressed.
In addition to being bitter, it's also sweet. While getting rid of a high fever, accompanying thirst, irritability, and a rapid, flooding pulse from excess heat in the lungs and stomach, and also getting rid of cough with thick, yellow sputum, Zhi Mu is meanwhile treating you to a day at the spa-- generating fluids, enriching your yin, moistening your dryness, and attending to all those Kidney yin deficiency signs (afternoon fever, five palm sweat, bleeding gums, night sweats). And meanwhile, whether you like it or not, it'll take your abnormally elevated sex drive out of overdrive. You'll thank it later.
And that's not all! It will help to heal your oral ulcers (thank god) and inflammation.
It is used often for diabetics that have "wasting condition." Clear that heat and nourish the yin!
It'll even make you crap your pants if you already have too much cold in the Spleen and Stomach. In other words, it's contraindicated for SP/ST cold diarrhea.
So, now I'm dying to know what the heck IS Zhi Mu? I usually look that up first thing, but was so impressed with its clearing heat PLUS nourishing yin combination that I got carried away.
So, Zhi Mu is...drumroll... Anemarrhena Rhizome. All I could discover about this flowering plant is that it is part of the lily family and that it grows in China. I didn't search for hours, but I don't think this one is all that common. If you know more about it, please let me know. By the way, Wikipedia says that the Lily family has been on planet earth for 58 million years. That's pretty old. No wonder it can do so many things.
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