What are the functions and effects of Bamboo Ru?

The application range of bamboo shavings is relatively wide. Because of its good efficacy and functions, if bamboo shavings are used together with coptis chinensis, pinellia tuber and tangerine peel, it can help treat vomiting caused by damp heat, and it can also help clear away heat and relieve restlessness.

1. Clearing phlegm and relieving depression: ① It is used for symptoms such as gallbladder deficiency, phlegm-heat stagnation, restlessness, and insomnia. It can be used together with Zhishi, Poria, Pinellia, Tangerine peel, Licorice, and ginger, such as Wen Dan Tang. ② It is used for stroke with phlegm obscuring the mind and tongue stiffness that makes it unable to speak. It can be used together with Bile Star, Acorus calamus, Poria, Pinellia, Tangerine peel, Citrus aurantium, Ginseng, Licorice, and ginger, such as Di Tan Decoction.

2. Clearing heat and stopping vomiting: ① Used for vomiting caused by damp-heat, it can be used together with coptis chinensis, pinellia tuber, and tangerine peel, such as coptis chinensis, tangerine peel, bamboo shavings and pinellia tuber soup. ② Used for vomiting or hiccups caused by stomach deficiency heat, it can be used together with tangerine peel, Codonopsis pilosula, licorice, ginger and jujube.

3. Clear away heat and relieve restlessness: It is used for residual heat after fever and restlessness. Bamboo leaves, gypsum, bamboo shavings and reed roots can be used.

4. To treat hiccups: 2 jin of tangerine peel, 2 liters of bamboo shavings, 30 jujubes, 0.5 jin of ginger, 5 liang of licorice, and 1 liang of ginseng. Take the above six ingredients, add one dou of water, boil and take three liters, take one liter while warm, three times a day. (Tangerine Peel and Bamboo Shavings Soup from "Golden Chamber")

5. To treat nausea, vomiting and indigestion during pregnancy : 18 zhu of green bamboo shavings and tangerine peel, 1 liang of poria and ginger, and 30 zhu of pinellia. Add six liters of water to the above five ingredients, boil and take out two and a half liters. Divide into three doses. If the condition does not improve, keep recurring. (Qianjin Fang)

6. To treat breast deficiency, restlessness, vomiting and retching in women , and to calm the stomach and invigorate qi: 2 fen of raw bamboo, 2 fen of gypsum, 1 fen of cinnamon twig, 7 fen of licorice, and 1 fen of white mulberry. Grind the above five ingredients into powder, and make into marble-sized balls with jujube flesh. Take one pill with water, three times a day and twice at night. For those with fever, double the amount of Baiwei; for those with asthma and restlessness, add one fen of Baishi. (Bamboo skin pills from "Jinkui Yaoxi")