The efficacy of bamboo shoots

Gaosun, also known as茭白, is a relatively common Chinese medicinal material. Its main therapeutic effect is to relieve heat and toxins. It also has the effect of promoting bowel movements and urination. It can treat jaundice and dysentery, and it can also relieve alcohol. When using Gaosun for treatment, you can take it internally by decocting it. If you want to achieve the effect of promoting lactation, you can add茭白, add tongcao, and put in pig's trotters to cook together.

Effects of high bamboo shoots

It can relieve heat and toxins, eliminate thirst, and promote bowel movements. Treats restlessness, thirst, jaundice, dysentery, red eyes, and wind sores.

① Meng Shen: It can benefit the five internal organs, wrinkles on the face caused by alcohol, leprosy, scabies, red eyes, hot and toxic wind, sudden heart pain. It can be cooked with salt and vinegar.

② "Bencao Shiyi" (Supplement to Materia Medica): It can relieve restlessness and heat, quench thirst, eliminate yellow eyes, promote urination and defecation, stop heat dysentery, and detoxify alcohol.

Dosage

For internal use, decoct in water, 1 to 2 liang.

Related Combinations

① To promote lactation: 50g to 15g of water chestnuts and 30g of tongcao. Cooking pig's feet. (Hunan Pharmacopoeia)

② To treat children’s wind sores that have not healed for a long time: burn the branches of Chinese cattail and ginger, grind them into powder and apply them on the affected area. (Secret Records of Mother and Child)

Toxicological effects

① Meng Shen: Slippery, don’t eat too much. It is slippery in nature, generates coldness, makes the lower part of the body cold, and damages the yang channel. It should not be eaten with honey as it will cause chronic diseases. People who are taking croton should not eat it.

② "Bencao Huiyan": People with weak spleen and stomach or diarrhea should not eat it.

③ "Sui Xi Ju Diet" says: People with loose stools and semen should not eat this food.

Chemical composition

1. Meng Shen: It can eliminate evil spirits from the five internal organs, red face caused by alcohol, white leprosy, scabies, red eyes, hot and toxic wind, sudden heart pain. It can be cooked with salt and vinegar.

2. "Bencao Shiyi" (Supplement to Materia Medica): It can relieve heat and restlessness, quench thirst, remove yellow eyes, promote urination and defecation, stop heat dysentery, and detoxify alcohol.

Morphological characteristics

Zizania latifolia (Bielu) is also known as Jiangcao (Shuowen), Zizania latifolia and Jiaocao (Tao Hongjing). Perennial herb. With rhizomes and thick fibrous roots; culms are erect, 90 to 180 cm high, with adventitious roots on the base nodes. The leaf sheaths are thick, longer than the internodes, and often have transverse veins at the base; the ligules are membranous, slightly triangular, and up to 15 mm long; the leaf blades are flat, linear-lanceolate, 30 to 100 cm long, 10 to 30 mm wide, smooth on the underside and rough on the upper side. The panicle is 30-60 cm long, with many branches in clusters, those at the ascending or basal part spreading; the male spikelets are usually born in the lower part of the inflorescence, with short petioles, often purple, 10-15 mm long, the lemma has 5 veins, the apex is gradually pointed or with short awns, the palea has 3 veins, 6 stamens, and the anthers are 6-9 mm long; the female spikelets are mostly located in the upper part of the inflorescence, 15-25 mm long, the lemma has 5 rough veins, the awn is 15-30 mm long, and the palea has 3 veins. The caryopsis is cylindrical, about 10 mm long. Flowering period is autumn.