Green bamboo shoots

Green bamboo shoots

(collection of compendium)

[synonym] green bamboo shoots (detailed record of bamboo manual), jade bamboo shoots (compendium), straw sandal soles and butterfly tips (compendium notes).

[source] it is the product of the seedlings (new shoots) of gramineous plant Dendrocalamus oldhami.

[plant morphology] Dendrocalamus oldhami (detailed bamboo spectrum), also known as neobambusa, Dianthus caryophyllus, Phyllostachys pubescens, Dendrocalamus latiflorus, Dendrocalamus latiflorus and Dendrocalamus latiflorus.

When young, the culms are covered with white wax powder, then green or dark green, 6-9 m high and 5-8 cm in diameter. Culm sheath is yellow, hard and brittle, with short brown hairs on the back when young; sheath tongue is small, truncated, entire; sheath ears ciliate; sheath leaves triangular and lanceolate. Each node has 3 thick and several smaller branches; branchlets have 7-15 leaves; leaf sheaths are 7-15 cm long, with small spines when young, and sometimes with sparse cilia at the edge; ligule truncated: auricles are small, hairy; leaves are rectangular and lanceolate, 12-30 cm long, 2.5-6.2 cm wide, base slightly round, apex acute, 9-14 pairs of secondary veins, and margin serrate. Spikelets solitary, sparsely tufted, ovate lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, 2-3.5 cm long, 7-10 mm wide, lower green, upper reddish purple, sometimes green purple with grass yellow, with 5-12 flowers, except for 2 or 3 florets at the top, the rest are bisexual, glumes usually 2, broadly ovate; lemma 10-18 mm long; palea rectangular lanceolate, similar to lemma, beautiful and narrow, with 2 ridges on the back There are tassels in the upper part, 2-3 scales: anthers yellow white, ovary ovate, style very short, upper part divided into 2-3 stigmas with white short hairs. The shoot period is from May to November. The flowering period is summer and autumn.

Born on hillside and roadside. Distributed in Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

[collection] fresh bamboo shoots were collected in spring and summer. The leaves were removed, cooked, dried or dried.

[chemical constituents] green shoots contain auxin, eicosanol-1 and unsaturated fatty acids.

[Xing Wei] "Gan Wei, Ping Xing". "

[function indications] "Gangmu Shiyi": "treat excess asthma, eliminate phlegm. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-2 Liang.

Chinese PinYin : Lv Sun Pian