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drug nameBamboo Shavings
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[Variety Source]

This product is a perennial evergreen tree or shrub of the Gramineae family: Bambusa tuldoides (Munro) and Sinocalamus beecheyanus (Munro) McClure var. pubescens P. F. Li) or the middle layer of the stem of Phyllostachys nigra (Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis Stapf). Mainly produced in the Yangtze River Basin and southern provinces. It can be harvested all year round. Take fresh stems, remove the outer skin, scrape the slightly green middle layer into silk strips, or cut into thin strips, tie them into bunches, and dry in the shade. Use raw or roasted with ginger juice.

[Property]

sweet, slightly cold. act on lung and stomach channels.

[Efficacy]

clearing heat and resolving phlegm, eliminating trouble and relieving vomiting.

[Indications]

  1. It is used for cough caused by phlegm-heat or upset and insomnia. Bamboo Shavings is sweet and cold, good at clearing away phlegm and heat. If phlegm and heat are removed, lung qi will be dissolved and suppressed to relieve cough; if phlegm and fire are cleared, and the mind will be at ease, irritability will be removed and sleep will be peaceful. For treating lung heat cough with yellow and thick phlegm, Trichosanthis Fruit and White Mulberry Root-Bark are often used; for treating phlegm-fire internal disturbance, upset and sleeplessness, White Mulberry Root-Bark is usually used. YAO L>Immature Orange Fruit, Pineilia, Poria, such as Gallbladder-Warming Decoction.
  2. For stomach heat vomiting. This product can clear the stomach and relieve vomiting. It is often used with Coptis Rhizome and Pineilia. If stomach deficiency causes heat and vomiting, tangerine peel can be used. , Fresh Ginger Rhizome, Ginseng and the like, such as "Golden Chamber" Tangerine Peel and Bamboo Shavings Decoction.
  3. In addition, this product also has cooling blood and stopping bleeding effects, and can be used for hematemesis, epistaxis, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, etc.

[Documentation]

  1. Bielu: "Cure vomiting, heat, Hanre hematemesis, metrorrhagia."
  2. Bencao Jingshu: "Bamboo Shavings Sweet and cold, it can relieve pathogenic qi and stop vomiting. Sweet and cold can also cool blood and clear heat, so it is responsible for hematemesis, metrorrhagia and relapse due to sexual intemperance. "
  3. Benjing Fengyuan : "It clears the heat of the stomach and is an important medicine for deficiency, polydipsia, stomach deficiency and vomiting."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 6~10g. It is used raw to eliminate resolving phlegm heat, and roasted with ginger juice is used to relieve vomiting.

[Modern Pharmacology]

Bamboo Shavings powder has a strong inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus albus, Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus large intestine, and Bacillus disease caused by cold.

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