Zhi

Zhi is a flowering plant that grows in warm climates.

Uses
Zhi is grown for its healing properties. Its leaves, prepared properly, can be applied to a wound to quickly stop a hemorrhage and they stimulate tissue regeneration, hastening the healing process.

Its flowers don't have the same healing properties as the leaves, but they are often brewed into tea and used for sore throat in Qilinian medicine.

Distribution
Zhi is native to southern Pyrisia. It mostly appears in state owned Qilinian plantations. Wild zhi became extinguished when Emperor Winter Breeze ordered every wild zhi plant culled to create a monopoly as part of his policies to create a Qilinian monopoly of zhi production (see ).

Legality
Emperor Winter Breeze enacted a series of policies to ensure a Qilinian monopoly on zhi production. These policies include the culling of every wild zhi plant and the penalization of the possession and trade of its seeds and of private growing with death as well as the establishment of enclosed state-owned plantations with strict controls to keep employees from taking seeds or plants home.

Under his rule, Qilinia started exporting zhi leaves and flowers to friendly nations under a strict vetting product to ensure no seeds are mixed in with the export goods.

After the Equestrian-Qilinian war, legislation regarding zhi underwent an overhaul, granting Equestria the ability to freely import all zhi products, including seeds.