Bamboo shoots are the newborn shoots of bamboo in the grass family, and according to the different harvesting seasons, they are divided into winter bamboo shoots, spring bamboo shoots, and whip bamboo shoots (picked in summer).

Bamboo shoots are very nutritious, both edible, but also has a high medicinal value. Its nature is slightly cold, sweet taste, with the benefit of stomach, clearing heat and phlegm, the effectiveness of the waterway, often used in the treatment of nausea and less food, lung heat and cough, thirst and other diseases. Tang Dynasty famous doctor Sun Simiao's "Thousand Gold Formula": "Bamboo shoots are sweet and non-toxic, the main thirst, the waterway, the benefit of qi, can be eaten for a long time." Modern pharmacological studies have shown that the dietary fiber contained in bamboo shoots can increase the amount of intestinal water storage, soften the feces is easy to discharge, and play a role in promoting intestinal peristalsis, help digestion, and facilitate the role of stool. At the same time its detoxification function can also reduce the occurrence of gastrointestinal cancer, breast cancer.

There are also bamboo coats (the inner membrane of golden bamboo poles), bamboo essence (the new bamboo tubular cavity of the liquid juice) is also used in medicine. Bamboo clothes for throat mute cough, bamboo essence for sweat spots. It can be said that "the whole body of bamboo is a treasure, into the medicine to cure the disease to cure".