Synonyms
Umbrella-stalked Bamboo (Supplement to the Taxonomy of Chinese Trees).
Basic Origin
The young leaves of Bitter Bamboo, family Gramineae.
Primary plants
Bitter bamboo leaves
Bitter bamboo pleiblasiusamarus (keng) kengl (arundinariaamarakeng)
The plants are small trees or shrubs. Rod erect, 3-5 m tall, 1.5-2 cm thick, wall ca. 6 mm thick; young rod light green, with white powder, green-yellow when old, covered with gray-white powdery spots; rods; saved or clustered, cylindrical, yu ring very raised; each section with 3-7 branches, Urs with 1 circle of brown culm sheath base residue, culm sheaths thickly papery and herbaceous, green, without or with tiny purple spots, with brown or white small prickly hairs, base connected with rods Culm sheaths thickly papery and herbaceous, green, without or with tiny purple spots, with brown or white small prickly hairs, base attached to rod, inner surface smooth and glossy, margins densely covered with golden yellow cilia; culm sheath auricles very small; culm sheath tongue truncate; culm sheath leaves finely oyster lanceolate; leaf sheaths glabrous, transverse; ligule rigid, truncate, 0.5-2 mm; blade lanceolate, tough, surface dark green, abaxial surface light green, with microhairs, especially at base; petiole 2-7 mm; floral branches bracteate, inflorescence branches and spikelet stipe slightly flat, often transverse flexuous, often with a twist, with a twist, and a twist, with a twist, and a twist. Spikelets green, spikelets with 8-12 florets, 4-6 cm long, green or aubergine-purple; duns 3-5, acute, margins ciliate; lemmas lanceolate, subleathery, transverse-veined, margins rent-hispid, palea dorsally 2-keeled with grooves between them, lodicules 3; stamens 3, with elongated and separated filaments, anthers yellow, connectives not protruding; styles l, stigmas 3, feathery. Caryopsis oblong. Fl. April to May.
Born on sunny slopes or plains, mostly cultivated. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan.
This plant's stalks by fire roasted out of the ferry juice (bitter bamboo leaching) and stalks after removing the outer skin scraped off the middle layer (bitter bamboo ru), withdrawing stems (bitter bamboo root), young seedlings (bitter bamboo shoots), dead young bamboo stalks (immortal branch) is also for medicinal purposes, another special article.
Harvesting and processing
Picked in June to October, fresh or dried.
Medicinal material
Bitter bamboo leaves foliumpleiobbst. amari produced in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places.
Traits dry leaves are mostly slender and curly. After unfolding the leaf blade is lanceolate, 6-12cm long, 10-15mm wide. the apex is sharp, the base is rounded, the petiole is 6-10mm long, gray-green and smooth on top, rough and hairy underneath, the main vein is thicker, and the two lateral veins are 8-16 in number. One side of the margin has bound serrations. The texture is brittle and elastic. Gas weak, taste slightly bitter.
Medicinal properties
Bitter, cold. Attributes to the heart and liver meridians.
1. Rihua Zi:Bitter, cold, non-toxic.
2. National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicine:Sweet, light, cold.
Functions and Indications
Cleansing the heart, diuretic, brightening the eyes and detoxifying. It is used in treating fever, thirst, insomnia, short and red urine, mouth sores, eye pain, loss of voice and burns.
1. "Bielu":Boils and mouth sores, and pain, brighten the eyes, and benefit the nine orifices.
2. Rihua Zi: cure sleeplessness, quench thirst, quench the poison of alcohol, remove the fever and sweating, cure stroke and loss of voice.
3. "Compendium":Killing insects.
4. "Classification of Herbs and Medicinal Properties": treating irritable heat, detoxification, reducing tidal fever in children, calcination (end of the compress) soup fire injuries.
5. National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicine: quenching thirst and diuretic. The main treatment for thirst, urine color yellow.
Use and dosage
Internally: decoction, 6 to 12 g. Externally: burnt powder and apply.
Selected prescription
1. The treatment of stroke loss of voice, sound choking out of the thick boiled bitter bamboo leaves to take. ("fill the gap after the elbow formula")
2. Treatment of pediatric head sores, ear sores on the bamboo leaves burned and pig fat coated with powder. And also to chicken in the white compress is also wonderful. (ZiMu Secret Record)