Chinese medicine believes that bamboo shoots are non-toxic, and have the effects of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, benefiting diaphragm, clearing stomach, dispelling temperature and benefiting qi. Modern research has found that bamboo shoots are the best vegetables to prevent constipation, colorectal cancer and breast cancer, because they are high in cellulose, good in protein and low in fat. Bamboo shoots are rich in magnesium and have a preventive effect on other cancers.

Cooking white rice porridge with fresh bamboo shoots can cure chronic diarrhea and proctoptosis. Boiling soup with bamboo shoots, dried tangerine peel and winter melon peel can obviously eliminate edema caused by nephritis, heart disease and liver disease. Roasting pork and chicken with bamboo shoots is a good tonic in spring and summer, and bamboo shoots also have a good effect on preventing and treating cough, asthma, diabetes, hypertension, polydipsia and insomnia.

Don't peel bamboo shoots when storing them, or they will lose their fragrance.

Bamboo shoots contain insoluble calcium oxalate, so people suffering from severe gastric ulcer, gastrorrhagia, liver cirrhosis, chronic enteritis and urinary calculi should be careful to eat them.