What is the difference between bamboo leaves and bamboo leaves?

In daily life, bamboo leaves are a common plant, and bamboo leaves are divided into many types. Each type of bamboo leaves has different effects and functions. Light bamboo leaves and bamboo leaves have high medicinal value. There is also a certain difference between light bamboo leaves and bamboo leaves. Light bamboo leaves are cold foods that can clear away heat and detoxify, while bamboo leaves can promote the production of body fluids, which is very good for the body.

The difference between light bamboo leaves and bamboo leaves

Bamboo Leaves

Medicinal properties: Heat-clearing medicine

Bamboo leaves are the leaves of the Poaceae plant Bamboo shoots. The young leaves that are rolled up but not yet released are called bamboo leaf curlers or bamboo leaf hearts. It is the dry stems and leaves of the Poaceae plant.

Light bamboo leaves

The medicinal properties and flavors are all sweet, mild and cold, and they all enter the heart, stomach and small intestine meridians. They are all heat-clearing drugs, which can clear away heat, purge fire and relieve restlessness, and promote urination. They are used for heat disease that damages body fluid, restlessness and thirst, hyperactivity of heart fire, mouth and tongue ulcers, and red and painful urine caused by the transfer of heat from the heart to the small intestine. Because the functions of the two are very similar, they are often used interchangeably in clinical practice.

1. Bamboo leaves are good at clearing the heart, purging fire and relieving restlessness, and can also produce body fluids. The bamboo leaf core is especially effective in clearing the heart and purging fire. It is a medicine that "clears the qi and cools the evil heat in the heart and stomach", so it is often used for symptoms of thirst caused by fever. The bamboo leaf core is also good at treating pericardial heat in febrile diseases, and high fever and coma.

Light bamboo leaves are good at clearing away heat and promoting diuresis. It is said that they can "relieve restlessness and heat, promote urination, and clear the heart." It is believed that they have the effect of "clearing heart fire and promoting urination." Therefore, they are often used for heat in the heart meridian that moves down to the small intestine, causing symptoms such as restlessness, mouth ulcers, short and red urine, and painful and astringent stranguria caused by heat.

2. Bamboo leaves are light and spicy, and can cool and disperse the wind-heat in the upper part of the body, remove phlegm and heat in the chest to stop coughing. "Dan Xi Shou Mirror" says that it "tastes bitter and very cold, and is used to treat cough, vomiting, and chest heat." It also says that it "is used to treat phlegm heat in the chest, cough, and shortness of breath."

Light bamboo leaves have a stronger ability to draw heat downward, so they are more suitable for treating epistaxis and swollen and painful gums, allowing the heat evil in the upper part to move downward and be excreted with urine.

There are many kinds of bamboo, perhaps hundreds of them. For example, there are many kinds of bamboo in Wangjiang Park in Chengdu, hundreds of them. There is one kind of bamboo called light bamboo. When the ancients used bamboo leaves, light bamboo was a very commonly used variety, so the leaves of light bamboo were called light bamboo leaves. So in this way, in the herbal medicine, there are homonyms, all called light bamboo leaves.

Because bamboo leaves can be found everywhere in the south, especially in the south, they can often be used as an inducer medicine. It puts forward a new concept when using bamboo leaves. For example, the bamboo we have all seen has many leaves, but it does not use other leaves but only one leaf that has not been unfolded. The leaves are rolled into a tube or needle shape. However, after the Warm Disease School, few people use unfolded bamboo leaves, and they all use bamboo leaf cores, which are actually also bamboo leaves. As a result, the real bamboo leaves are rarely used, and those that are used are all inducer medicines, and the patients add them themselves.

The taste of light bamboo leaves is sweet, light and cold in nature. It can clear away heat and promote diuresis. It has the effects of clearing the heart and relieving restlessness, promoting diuresis and relieving stranguria. It can be used for symptoms such as irritability, thirst, fatigue, red and astringent urine, and mouth and tongue ulcers caused by fever. There are many folk remedies. For example, to treat mouth sores, you can use fresh bamboo leaves to boil water and drink it as tea, which is very effective. In summer, you can also boil a proper amount of bamboo leaves in water and drink it as a cold tea. People also collect its roots and seedlings, mash them into juice, and make wine with rice, which has a strong aroma.