The efficacy and function of bamboo orchid

Bamboo orchid is a common Chinese medicinal material with great health benefits. It also has certain effects on some diseases. We need to choose according to our own needs. Many people in our daily life don’t know much about bamboo orchid grass. Let’s analyze bamboo orchid grass below.

【English name】 all-grass of Bulley Herminium

【Alias】 Xiaozong Township

[Source] Medicinal material source: the whole herb of the Orchidaceae plant Orchidaceae.

[Original form] Striped-leaved horn orchid, perennial herb, 15-35cm tall. The tuber is oblong, 1-1.5cm long. The stem is slightly slender, nearly erect, with 3-4 leaves at the bottom. The leaves are narrow, linear, or linear-lanceolate, 5-10cm long, 3-6mm wide, acute or acuminate at the apex, and gradually narrowed at the base to embrace the stem. The raceme is 6-15cm long, with many flowers; the bracts are ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, about the same length as the ovary or slightly longer; the flowers are small, yellow-green, and sparse; the sepals are ovate-oblong, obtuse at the apex, about 3mm long; the petals are ovate-oblong or narrowly ovate, nearly obtuse at the apex, the same length as the sepals, and slightly thickened fleshy; the lip is spurred, fleshy, thickened, 3-parted to nearly the base, the unlobed part is short, the lobes are linear, about 3mm long, and the lateral lobes are shorter than the middle lobe; the spur is oblong, obtuse at the apex, slightly incurved, 2.5-4.5mm long, half the length of the ovary or the same length; there are 2 staminodes, small; the stigma is 2-lobed and parallel; the ovary is glabrous.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Growing on hillside grasslands at an altitude of 2500-3300m.

【Nature and flavor】 sweet; warm

【Meridian】 Kidney meridian

【Functions and indications】Warms and nourishes kidney yang. Mainly used for soreness of waist and knees; impotence; spermatorrhea

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoction, 9-15g, large dose 15-30g.

[Discussions by various scholars] "Xinhua Compendium of Materia Medica": The whole plant: has the function of warming and tonifying kidney yang. Used for low back and knee pain, impotence and spermatorrhea.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

Above, we introduced what bamboo orchid is and understood the effects and functions of bamboo orchid. Bamboo orchid can improve our immunity. Bamboo orchid also has a therapeutic effect in health care and has many benefits to our body.