Efficacy and function of traditional Chinese medicine bamboo leaves. I believe everyone is familiar with bamboo leaves. Bamboo leaves are very common plants, but they are widely used. Next, I will take you to understand the efficacy and function of bamboo leaves.

Efficacy and function of traditional Chinese medicine bamboo leaves. At present, some Chinese medicine books mistakenly believe that bamboo leaves and lophatherum gracile are the same medicine and should be identified. Lophatherum gracile is a small herbaceous plant of Gramineae with stems. Bamboo leaves are the leaves of narrow-leaved bamboo or bamboo (non-bamboo), that is, the leaves of the same plant as bamboo shavings and bamboo juice. Because the effects of bamboo leaves and lophatherum gracile are basically the same, they can be used with each other. Lophatherum gracile was first published in Compendium of Materia Medica. Bamboo leaves and lophatherum gracile have different sources and cannot be confused, but their effects are basically similar. The bamboo leaves or light bamboo leaves contained in the previous prescriptions of Compendium of Materia Medica in Ming Dynasty are all bamboo leaves.

2. The use history of bamboo leaves is longer than that of light bamboo leaves. As early as Treatise on Febrile Diseases, there was an application example of Zhuye Gypsum Decoction. Compendium of Materia Medica records the existence of Lophatherum gracile, and there are two kinds of medicinal materials. Some people mistakenly think that Lophatherum Bambusae and Lophatherum Bambusae are the same medicine, but they can be used instead of each other because their effects are basically the same. The difference is that bamboo leaves have a good effect of clearing away heat, while bamboo leaves have a good diuretic effect.

3. From the plant source, bamboo leaves are the dried leaves of perennial evergreen bamboos of Gramineae or shrub, which are mainly produced in the Yangtze River basin. Lophatherum gracile is the dried stem and leaf of Gramineae perennial herb Lophatherum gracile, mainly produced in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hunan and other places.

4. From the aspect of character identification, the leaves of bamboo leaves are long lanceolate and light green, sometimes cut into filaments of different lengths, and the unexpanded tender leaves appear first, which is called "bamboo leaves roll the heart". The stems of leaves are short and easy to fall off from joints. The upper surface is smooth, the lower surface is rough and the texture is prominent. Crispy and elastic, slightly flatulent, and light in taste. Lophatherum gracile leaves are segmented with mixed stems and leaves. The stem is cylindrical, jointed, with yellow-green surface, hollow section, light weight, flexibility, slight gas and light taste.

5. Bamboo leaves are used to treat diseases caused by heat in qi, such as fever, polydipsia, dryness and heat discomfort, etc. Some people think that bamboo leaves enter the blood to distinguish blood heat, and that the compatibility of Qingying Decoction with this medicine is actually the downward effect of heat conduction. We believe that bamboo leaves can achieve therapeutic effect by clearing away qi and heat, rather than directly going deep into blood to treat blood-heat syndrome. Bamboo leaf gypsum soup is an example.

According to some ancient documents, bamboo leaves can be used to treat cough with excessive phlegm. The reason may be that bamboo leaves, bamboo shavings and bamboo juice are the same thing. Bamboo shavings and bamboo juice have the effect of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, so bamboo leaves also have this effect. There is no description of the expectorant and antitussive effects of bamboo leaves in some Chinese medicine books. Judging from the current clinical use, bamboo leaves are mainly used to treat heart-clearing heat, such as Daochisan.

The prescription is made of famous bamboo leaves.

Sexual taste is cold, sweet and light. Heart meridian, stomach meridian and small intestine meridian.

Efficacy and indications: clearing away heat and vexation, diuresis and stranguria. Indications: fever, polydipsia, aphtha and hematuria.

Bamboo leaves are forbidden in clinic, because they are sweet and pungent, and should not be taken by people with yin deficiency and excessive fire and bone steaming and hot flashes.

Usage and dosage: 6 ~ 15g of dried product and 0/5 ~ 30g of fresh product, decocted in water.

Efficacy and function of traditional Chinese medicine bamboo leaves II. Efficacy and function of bamboo leaf tea

1, clearing away heat and toxic materials

Bamboo leaf tea is a kind of health tea, its main function is to clear away heat and detoxify. Can be used for preventing and treating various human fevers and alleviating human discomfort symptoms. In addition, people with hot constitution can drink more bamboo leaf green tea, and then they can clean up the heat toxin in their bodies and prevent all kinds of symptoms of getting angry.

2, dredge meridians

It is also one of the important functions of bamboo leaf tea to dredge meridians and accelerate the circulation of qi and blood. People can drink it in water, which can improve the health level of bones and muscles in the future. The disharmony between qi and blood can prevent and relieve numbness of limbs, joint pain and joint swelling.

3, diuretic swelling

Diuretic and detumescence is also an important effect of Zhuyeqing tea, which can improve human renal function, especially after the saponin contained in it is absorbed by the human body, it can accelerate the discharge of excess water in the human body, and has a particularly good relief effect on symptoms such as adverse urination, short urine and edema.

Taboo of bamboo leaf tea

Zhuyeqing tea is a kind of cool and healthy tea, but there are some taboos when drinking it. People with spleen and stomach deficiency and frequent abdominal cold pain should not eat bamboo leaf green water, otherwise it will aggravate the condition. In addition, people who often have abdominal pain and diarrhea are also forbidden to drink bamboo leaf green tea, which is not good for their recovery.

Efficacy and function of traditional Chinese medicine bamboo leaves. Efficacy and function of bamboo leaves

Bamboo plants

Lophatherum gracile is a perennial herb with a height of 40-90 cm. Rhizomes are short and hard. Don't call it broken bone grass, pheasant straw or bamboo leaf grass. Gramineae bamboo leaves.

Efficacy of lophatherum gracile

Indications: fever in chest, cough due to adverse qi, vomiting blood, toxic heat, quenching thirst, erysipelas, eliminating phlegm, treating fever mania, aphonia due to apoplexy, headache, restlessness, insect killing, clearing away heat, invigorating spleen, clearing away heat, and promoting diuresis. Used for fever, polydipsia, red and astringent urine, and sores on the mouth and tongue.

Sexual taste is along the meridian, sweet, light and cold. Heart meridian, stomach meridian and small intestine meridian.

Usage and dosage 6 ~ 9g.

Store in a dry place.

Application of Lophatherum gracile

1. Bamboo Leaf Gypsum Decoction (Treatise on Febrile Diseases) can treat typhoid, fever and summer diseases, but the residual heat is not clear, and both qi and essence are damaged. Body heat and excessive sweating, chest tightness and nausea, dry mouth and thirst, or insomnia, red tongue with little coating and rapid pulse. 6 grams of bamboo leaves, 50 grams of gypsum, 9 grams of Pinellia ternata, 20 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, 6 grams of ginseng, 6 grams of licorice (fried), and 0/0 grams of japonica rice. Seven flavors are served, with a bucket of water, six liters are boiled, dregs are removed, glutinous rice is boiled, rice is boiled, and rice is boiled. Take a warming suit three times a day. In the prescription, bamboo leaves clear away heat and relieve annoyance, and at the same time produce fluid, which is the monarch medicine.

2, bamboo leaf soup ("The Secret of Outer Taiwan") cures pinkeye. Lophatherum gracile 10g, Coptidis Rhizoma 4, Cyclocarya paliurus 20, Fructus Jujubae (peeled and pitted) 20, Fructus Gardeniae 7, and Plantago Plantaginis 10g. Take four liters of water and one liter to wash eyes, 6-7 times a day. Avoid pork. The compatibility of Lophatherum Bambusae with other drugs in the prescription has the functions of clearing away heat, relieving restlessness and diuresis.

3, single frying, on behalf of tea, to prevent sore throat.