What are the effects and functions of Bamboo Ru?

The efficacy and function of bamboo shavings actually need to be combined with other medicinal materials to play its efficacy and function. Only when bamboo shavings are combined with medicines such as loquat leaves and almonds can they effectively treat phlegm and lung heat while avoiding side effects.

1. Bamboo Rhizome is used to treat women's illness that has not been cured. Due to some movement, heat rises to the chest, and the hands and feet become stiff and convulsed, like a stroke: 2 liang of Trichosanthes root and half a liter of light bamboo shavings. Add 2.5 liters of water and boil until 1.2 liters remain. Remove the residue and divide into two or three doses. (Qingzhu Ru Tang from The Living Book)

2. Bamboo shavings are used to treat lung heat, phlegm and cough: 9g each of bamboo shavings, loquat leaves, and almonds, 4.5g of scutellaria baicalensis, and 12g of mulberry bark. Decoction. (Anhui Chinese Herbal Medicine)

3. Bamboo shavings are used to treat yellow blisters and fever: 2 liang of real sesame oil, 2 liang of green costusroot, a small ball of green bamboo shavings, and 20 almonds (peeled and pointed). Put the above medicines into sesame oil, simmer until it turns into almond yellow, remove the residue, add half a liang of pine resin (ground), boil it into a paste, and use a small amount to rub on the sores. (Bamboo Ru Paste from Jisheng Fang)

4. Bamboo shavings for treating whooping cough: 9g bamboo shavings and 100g honey. Boil bamboo shavings in water, add honey, and boil it for drinking. Take 1 dose daily for 3 consecutive doses. (Hubei Chinese Herbal Medicine)

5. Bamboo Rhizome is used to treat injuries caused by weapons, wood and stones, pain in the chest, back, abdomen and flanks, and difficulty breathing: Two pieces of green bamboo rubbings as big as chicken eggs (fry until charred), and two pieces of loose-hair chicken eggs (burn to ashes). Grind the above herbs into powder, boil them three times with one medium cup of wine, let it cool, and drink it with the residue, three times a day. (Sheng Hui Fang)

6. Bamboo Rhizome is used to treat restlessness caused by deficiency and cannot be treated with aggression: 2 liters of green bamboo rhizome. Take the above ingredient, add 4 liters of water, boil it until 2 liters remain, remove the residue, divide it into 5 portions and take it slowly while warm. (Quoted from Zhang Wenzhongfang in Waitai)

7. Bamboo peel is used to treat drunken headache: scrape 5 liang of raw bamboo skin. Boil eight liters of water and take out five liters, then discard the dregs. Then add five eggs, stir until thick, and boil again. Drink up two or three liters. (Behind the Elbow)

8. Bamboo Rhizome is used to treat postpartum headache, shortness of breath, and confusion in the heart: one liter of raw bamboo shavings, five he of Ophiopogon japonicus, one liang of licorice, five he of wheat, three liang of ginger, and fourteen jujubes. Chew the above six ingredients, boil bamboo shoots and wheat with one dou of water, take out eight liters and discard the dregs. Add all the herbs, boil and take out one liter, remove the residue and divide into two doses. For thin people, divide into three doses. (Danzhuru Decoction from Qianjin Yaofang)

9. Bamboo peel is used to treat sexual fatigue, scrotal swelling, abdominal cramps, and urge to die: scrape one liter of bamboo peel. Use three liters of water, boil it five times, squeeze out the residue, and drink it all at once. (Essentials of Treatise on Febrile Diseases)