Bamboo shoots are not only rich in various nutrients, but also have high medicinal value. Chinese medicine believes that spring bamboo shoots are sweet, slightly bitter and cold in nature, which can resolve phlegm and reduce qi, clear away heat and relieve annoyance, and facilitate defecation. "A Record of Famous Doctors" states that it can "cure thirst, benefit waterways, benefit qi and eat for a long time"; Compendium of Materia Medica says "helping nine orifices, dredging blood vessels, removing phlegm and promoting fluid production, and helping digestion and abdominal distension", especially good at clearing heat and resolving phlegm.
Modern medicine has confirmed that eating bamboo shoots has the effects of nourishing yin and nourishing blood, resolving phlegm and promoting digestion, facilitating defecation and improving eyesight. When children suffer from measles, they can drink soup made of tender bamboo shoots to make measles come out completely and shorten the illness period; Cooking porridge with bamboo shoots also has a good effect on proctoptosis caused by chronic diarrhea. Modern medicine also believes that bamboo shoots can absorb fat, promote food fermentation, help digestion and excretion, and are one of the most ideal foods for dieters.
Fresh bamboo shoots should not be eaten more, and it is best not to exceed half a root per person per meal. Although spring bamboo shoots have high nutritional value, they are cold and sweet, and contain more crude cellulose. It is difficult to digest after eating in large quantities, which is easy to burden the gastrointestinal tract, especially for people who already have gastrointestinal diseases. Patients with urethral calculi, kidney calculi, severe gastric and duodenal ulcer, gastrorrhagia, liver cirrhosis, esophageal varices, chronic enteritis, spleen and stomach weakness and other diseases should not eat more bamboo shoots.