Bamboo’s Medical Application

The ancient medical book Gleaning of Detailed Outlines says“bamboo have the functions like benefit the organs and the circulation of blood ,removing the spittle,and helping digest,etc.” The book Chinese Matrial Medica Origin records that bamboo cooked with meat benefits feminine blood.

Bamboo shoots soup or included in Chinese medicine are both good for people who comes down with small pox,warmblood and renal failure. Bamboo shoots for cooking soup can be used to clean away heat and toxic and diminishing inflammation,and ruducing pregnant woman’s headache and curing chilren’s fear. It can cure the long diarrhea,the rectocele and constipation when it is cooked with rice and other seanoning matters. It is cooked for soup,and  people drunk as tea,it will make one sober up.

Among the folk,people usually use the burnt bamboo shoots cover to treat the sore

The dried bamboo shoots eaten by the incects after  being washed and cooked with Chinese medicine can be use to cure ascites tumefaction and urinate problems. When it is cooked in the crucian soup,eating it can cure children measles,rheumatism,the first varicella and so on. The clinical reported that it can remove or at leat  reduce the  ascites in the schistosome people when3 grams worm bamboo shoots cooked with other Chinese medicine like 3gram bottle gourd, and taking it 20 times for a course of treatment.

During the treatment,salt is absteained. And a proper amount of vitermine B,C ,glucose and iron can be added. If used to treat kidey inflammation edema, 9 grams worm bamboo shoots and golden gourd respectively cooked together in water and take it 3 times a day for 3 days contiually;thus it can gradually reduce the detumescence. The percentage of recovery is as heigh as 90%.

Bamboo shoots are considered as a healthy food for losing weight and prevernting cancers. Because the fiber,and semi-fiber in the bamboo shoots can quicken the movement of the intestines,it can also promote to secrete the digestive grand.It is good for digesting and voidance to reduce the accumulation and absorbtion of the harzard substances;thus, it can reduce the chances of toxicosis and cancers.The resent years,people also found that the amylose subustance in the bamboo shoots are of the function to prevent cancers.

The combination of vitermins and the fatty acid can prevent the production of cholesterol in the blood.The cheese amino acid in the bamboo shoots can be used to treat hypothroid hyperfunction and keep down the spread of the cancer cells. Often eating bamboo shoots can prevent the produciton of the cancer leading subustance sodium nitrite and also it can reduce the cholesterol in the blood and glycerin level.It is a effective treatment for the intestine cancer and esophagus cancer and hypertension.