What is the medicinal value of bamboo leaves

I believe everyone is familiar with bamboo leaves. People can see bamboo leaves in many places, and bamboo leaves are very common in our lives. In many places, bamboo leaves also play a decorative role, but do bamboo leaves have no other uses besides decoration? No, bamboo leaves have many medicinal values ​​and can treat some minor illnesses. There are also many diseases that require large amounts of bamboo leaves as medicinal materials to treat.

【Nature and flavor and meridians】Sweet, bland, and cold. Enters the heart, lung, gallbladder and stomach meridians.

【function】

(1) Heart-clearing and diuretic: It is used to treat mouth and tongue ulcers, scanty and red urine, or painful urination due to heat (such as acute urinary tract infection) caused by excessive heart fire. It is often combined with Radix Rehmanniae, Akebia, and Licorice root (such as Daochi Powder).

It can clear away heat and relieve restlessness, promote the production of body fluid and promote urination. It can treat fever, thirst, convulsions and hysteria in children, cough, vomiting and bleeding, red face, short and red urine, and oral erosions and tongue sores.

(2) Clearing away heat and relieving restlessness: It is used to relieve restlessness and dryness caused by residual heat after a fever, and is often combined with gypsum and ophiopogon.

[Usage and Dosage] 6 to 15 grams. For internal use: decoction.

[Medicinal material] The leaves are narrowly lanceolate, 7.5-16 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, gradually pointed at the apex, obtuse at the base, and the petiole is about 5 mm long. One side of the edge is smoother, and the other side is serrated and rough; parallel veins, 6-8 pairs of secondary veins, and very obvious small transverse veins; the leaf surface is dark green and glabrous, the back is lighter in color, and has fine hairs at the base; the texture is thin and brittle. Weak smell, bland taste. The best ones are green, complete and without branches and stems.

Speaking of bamboo leaves, many people may not know what the medicinal value of bamboo leaves is, and even few people associate bamboo leaves with medicine. But in fact, bamboo leaves have many medicinal values, and another thing you need to pay attention to is the selection of bamboo leaves. Generally speaking, choosing bamboo leaves with greener colors will have better effects. I hope this can help you.