bamboo leaf
Also known as Lophatherum gracile, it is the dried stem and leaf of Lophatherum gracile, a Gramineae plant. It is cold and sweet. Entering the heart, lung, gallbladder and stomach meridian, it has the effects of clearing away heat, removing annoyance, promoting fluid production and diuresis. It can be used for treating fever, polydipsia, convulsion, cough, vomiting, flushing, short and red urine, and swelling and pain of tongue coating. "Drug Meaning" contains: "Bamboo leaves are fragrant, slightly bitter, cold and hot, and the smell is clear. ..... Indications for quenching thirst due to summer heat, hot phlegm in the chest, typhoid fever and cough and asthma are all well used medicines. " Modern pharmacological research shows that flavonoids and coumarin lactones contained in bamboo leaves have good anti-free radical ability and anti-oxidation, anti-aging, anti-fatigue, blood lipid lowering, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases prevention, liver protection, capillary dilation, microcirculation dredging, brain activation, memory promotion, sleep improvement, anti-cancer and beauty care. The study also confirmed that Lophatherum Bambusae can inhibit Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. It is used for clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, and has achieved good results in treating sores on the mouth and tongue, short and red urine, or adverse urine caused by heat and exogenous wind-heat.
Zhuru
Also called light bamboo shavings and bamboo skins, they are the middle layers scraped from the stems of Gramineae light bamboo after peeling, and they are in the form of curly twisted filaments, which can be eaten raw and used as medicine. Jiang Shui and bamboo shavings can also be fully mixed and put into a pot for micro-frying to make ginger bamboo shavings. It is cool, sweet and bitter, enters the stomach and gallbladder, and has the effects of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, removing annoyance and stopping vomiting. Can be used for treating cough due to phlegm-heat, phlegm due to gallbladder fire, heat vomiting, palpitation and insomnia, apoplexy with excessive phlegm, strong tongue, vomiting due to stomach heat, poor pregnancy and fetal movement. "Medicine Meaning" contains: "Bamboo shavings, light can be removed, cooling can remove heat, and bitterness can be reduced, specializing in clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, which is a good product for calming the heart. Indications for stomach heat, retching due to stomach deficiency, hot cough, phlegm-heat nausea, vomiting due to alcohol injury, excessive phlegm and acid water, palpitation, irritability and restless sleep are all symptoms of gallbladder and stomach heat and excessive phlegm, which can be effective. "
Julie
Also known as bamboo juice and light bamboo juice, it is the juice made by baking the stems of light bamboo in Gramineae. It is cold in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, enters the heart and stomach meridian, and has the effects of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, relieving convulsion and inducing resuscitation. "Compendium of Materia Medica" contains: Zhu Li's "Cool breeze reduces fire, moistens dryness and eliminates phlegm, nourishes blood and benefits yin, and helps to improve eyesight. It is an important medicine for clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, "bamboo drains phlegm, reaching the upper and lower bones and causing hairy orifices". For example, phlegm can descend on the upper body, open in the chest diaphragm and disperse in the limbs, which is beneficial to the viscera and meridians and is feasible outside the periderm. Drinking bamboo juice instead of tea for several days in a row can cure thirst and excessive urination; Bamboo juice, ginger juice, bile powder and natural bezoar are mixed evenly and taken with boiling water, which can treat infantile convulsion and limb convulsion; Take bamboo juice, kudzuvine root juice and ginger juice, mix well and warm.
Bamboo core
Also known as bamboo needles and bamboo hearts, they are young leaves, which are tender and cannot be rolled. Its taste and efficacy are the same as those of bamboo leaves, and it has the effects of clearing away heart-fire, relieving restlessness, relieving summer heat and quenching thirst, but it is strong in clearing fire, and is often used for heart heat, summer heat, boredom and coma. "Herbal Rejuvenation" records: "(Bamboo Roll Heart) clears the heart, purges fire, detoxifies and relieves annoyance, clears away summer heat and promotes diuresis, and quenches thirst and produces fluid". Replacing tea with tea can be used to treat recurrent aphtha and chronic prostatitis.
Bamboo handicrafts for removing green peel
Also known as Tianzhu yellow and bamboo paste, it is a block-shaped substance formed by drying the bleeding stored between bamboo nodes after being bitten by parasitic bamboo bees. This kind of product is rarely produced naturally, and most of them use the method of burning bamboo forest, so that after the bamboo is suddenly heated, the bamboo juice overflows, solidifies in the internodes, and then cuts and dries. It is cold in nature and sweet in taste, and has the effects of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, cooling the heart and calming the mind. It is often used to treat fever, delirium, apoplexy with excessive phlegm, convulsion and epilepsy. "Herbal Yan Hui" contains: "Tianzhu Huang, a medicine for resolving phlegm and inducing resuscitation, is also a medicine for calming the nerves. Li (Shizhen) said that its odor function is similar to that of bamboo juice. First, the bamboo drain is fast, straight through the meridians, and it has the function of cold and slippery; Bamboo yellow is slow, virtual and antipyretic, and calming the nerves is even better. " Both "Baolong Pill" and "Lijing Pill" in "Guide to Pediatric Medical Syndrome" have bamboo yellow flavor.
bamboo shoots
It is a new bud of Gramineae bamboo, which can be divided into winter bamboo shoots, spring bamboo shoots and whip bamboo shoots (picked in summer) according to different harvest seasons. Bamboo shoots are nutritious, edible and have high medicinal value. Slightly cold and sweet, it has the effects of invigorating qi, appetizing, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, dredging channels and activating collaterals. It is often used to treat anorexia, cough due to lung heat and thirst. Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in Qian Jin Fang: "Bamboo shoots are sweet and non-toxic, which can quench thirst, benefit water and benefit qi, and can be eaten for a long time." Modern pharmacological research shows that dietary fiber contained in bamboo shoots can increase the storage of intestinal water, soften feces, facilitate excretion, promote intestinal peristalsis, help digestion and facilitate defecation. At the same time, its detoxification function can also reduce the occurrence of gastrointestinal cancer and breast cancer.
There are also bamboo coats (the inner membrane of the stem of Dendrocalamus latiflorus) and bamboo essence (the juice in the lumen of Hsinchu) which are also used as medicine. Bamboo clothing is used to treat hoarseness and cough, and bamboo essence is used to treat sweat spots. It can be said that "bamboo is a treasure all over the body and can be used as medicine to treat diseases."