Harvesting and processing: Fresh products can be harvested and used as medicine at any time.
Medicinal parts: leaves
Origin: Shandong, Henan, and various regions south of the Yangtze River Basin
Family: Poaceae, Phyllostachys genus
Original plant: pale bamboo
Plant condition: Perennial woody plant
The plant is woody and takes on a tree like appearance. The height of the pole is 6-18m, with a diameter of 5-7cm. After growing, it remains green or gray green when old. The pole ring and sheath ring are both very raised. The back of the sheath is hairless or slightly hairy on the upper part, with grayish black spots and stripes ranging from yellow green to light yellow; The ear sheath and its hairs are easily shed;
Leaves long lanceolate, with folds and base contraction; 1-5 leaves of the small tool, with no hair on the sheath or opening of the leaf sheath; The leaves are dark green, hairless, narrow lanceolate, 1-2cm wide, with 6-8 pairs of secondary veins, and thin texture.
The spike shaped inflorescence is arranged in a conical shape with a tile covering; Spikelet containing 2-3 flowers, with degenerated apical flowers, glumes or 2 petals, lanceolate, with microvilli; The lemma is sharp and pointed, with slight hairs on the surface; The tip of the palea has 2 teeth and is covered with fine hairs, measuring 12-15mm in length; The number of scales varies, ranging from 3 to 1 or absent, in the shape of thorium and approximately 3mm in length; The anthers are 7-10mm long and hang outside the flowers with very long filaments when they bloom; The ovary is pointed ovate in shape, with a long style growing at the top. The two have a total length of about 7mm and three stigma, each about smm long, in the shape of a broom.
The bamboo shoot period is from April to May, and the flowering period is from October to May of the following year.
Characteristics of bamboo leaf medicinal herbs: It is narrow lanceolate, 7.5-16cm long, 1-2cm wide, with a gradually pointed tip and a blunt base. The petiole is about 5mm long, with one side of the edge being smooth and the other side having small serrations and roughness. It has parallel veins and 6-8 pairs of secondary veins. The small transverse veins are prominent. The leaf surface is dark green, hairless, and the color on the back is light. Weak breath, light taste.
High quality products are preferred if they are green in color, intact, and have no branches or stems.
Bamboo leaf medicinal properties:
The middle grade bamboo leaves in this sutra have a bitter and flat taste. They mainly cough against the upper qi, overflow tendons, urgency and evil ulcers, kill small insects. The root is used to make soup, nourish qi and quench thirst, supplement deficiency and lower qi. The juice is used to regulate wind and heat. It is solid, promotes the spirit, lightens the body and nourishes qi
Sweet taste, slightly cold, starting with the Taiyin Lung Meridian. Clear the lungs and relieve annoyance, cool the body and relieve heat.
Bamboo leaves are sweet, cold, and cool, reducing stress and eliminating annoyance. They are also a great product for relieving heat and clearing the upper level. Its various indications: reducing qi reflux, relieving headaches, removing vomiting blood, treating yellowing, moistening and quenching thirst, clearing heat and phlegm, rinsing teeth and bleeding, washing and removing anus.
Bamboo leaves are sweet, cold, and cool, reducing stress and eliminating annoyance. They are also a great product for relieving heat and clearing the upper level. Its various indications: reducing qi reflux, relieving headaches, removing vomiting blood, treating yellowing, moistening and quenching thirst, clearing heat and phlegm, rinsing teeth and bleeding, washing and removing anus.
[Preparation]
1. Purification: Remove impurities and wash thoroughly.
2. Cutting: Remove impurities, cut into sections or knead into small balls.
【 Taste 】 Sweet; Light; cold
[Returning to the Classic] Heart; Lung; Stomach meridian
【 Functions and Indications 】 Clearing heat and eliminating annoyance; Generating saliva and diuresis. Main fever, restlessness and thirst; Childhood epilepsy; Coughing, vomiting, and bleeding; Short and red urine; Tongue ulcer
[Usage and Dosage] Oral administration: decoct soup, 6-12g.
【 Attention 】 It is contraindicated for those with spleen and stomach deficiency cold and loose stools.
【 Discussions from Various Schools 】
1. "Bielu": The main symptom is phlegm heat in the chest and coughing with retrograde qi.
2. "Treatise on Medicinal Properties": The main function is to expel blood, heat, poison, and wind, and to quench thirst.
3. "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica": It is used to relieve cough and reflux, quench thirst, phlegm and drink, relieve throat obstruction, and relieve irritability and heat.
4. "Rihuazi Bencao": Relieve phlegm, treat fever, restlessness, speechlessness due to stroke, strengthen heat, headache, headache, and head wind. Also, when pregnant, the head should spin and fall to the ground, relieve shock and palpitations, alleviate fever and discomfort, and prevent children from experiencing sudden seizures.
5. Zhang Element: Cooling the Heart Meridian, nourishing vital energy, removing heat, and soothing the spleen.
6. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Boil concentrated juice, rinse teeth for bleeding, wash away the anus but do not retract.
7. "Bencao Zheng": Relieve deficiency, heat, restlessness, insomnia, relieve restlessness and thirst, produce saliva, promote small water flow, relieve throat obstruction, and relieve children's wind and heat seizures.
8. "Chongqing Tang Essays": It has the function of calming the mind and stopping spasms by calming the liver and gallbladder internally and clearing the heat of summer externally.
9. "Herbal Renewal": Cooling the heart and strengthening the spleen, treating vomiting and nosebleeds, and improving hearing and vision.
10. "Commentary on the Classic of Materia Medica": If Yangming's guest is hot, phlegm will be produced in the chest. If phlegm heat is stagnant, cough will be reversed and qi will flow upward. Bamboo leaves can relieve the heat stagnation of Yangming, causing phlegm to dissipate naturally, qi to flow down, and coughing to stop. Zhongjing treats typhoid fever, fever, and thirst with bamboo leaf gypsum soup, which is nothing but a false remedy for dispelling the evil heat of Yangming.
11. "The Meaning of Medicinal Products": Bamboo leaves have a refreshing fragrance that penetrates the heart, with a slight bitterness, coolness, and heat, and a clear odor. The Classic of Chinese Medicine states that the treatment of warmth is to clear the mind and qi, with a mild taste that benefits the senses, and to break down the hot blood in the heart meridian. It is used as a good medicine for treating symptoms such as quenching thirst during summer heat, phlegm in the chest, deficiency and annoyance caused by typhoid fever, cough and shortness of breath. It takes fresh air and clear it into the lungs, which is divided into heat by clean air, not by bamboo leaves, and heat by cold blood. It is ineffective in removing cypress leaves.
12. "Seeking Truth from Materia Medica": According to books, bamboo leaves are recorded to cool the heart and soothe the spleen, clear phlegm and quench thirst. They are used to treat symptoms such as excessive heat caused by excessive heat, coughing, wheezing, vomiting, and all types of stroke and epilepsy. They are mainly due to their mild ability to relieve upper body heat, pungent ability to dispel depression, sweet ability to soothe the spleen, cool ability to enter the heart, and cold ability to treat heat in the ears. However, it should always be a clear and beneficial product. When combined with gypsum for treatment, it can relieve stomach heat without causing excessive restlessness and thirst. Bamboo grows for one year, and those that are tender and strong are good. "