Zhu ru – bamboo skin

Bamboo Shavings (Attached: Bamboo Juice)
[Medicinal Use] This product is the internode part of the stem of the Gramineae plant such as light bamboo or bitter bamboo. Use a knife to scrape off the first green surface layer and then scrape off the middle layer.
[Nature and flavor and meridians] Sweet, slightly cold. Enter the lung and stomach meridians.
[Effects] Clear heat, resolve phlegm, and stop vomiting.
[Clinical Application] 1. Used for lung heat cough, thick sputum.
Bamboo Shavings can clear heat and resolve phlegm, so it can be used for lung heat cough, often used with drugs such as Scutellaria baicalensis and Trichosanthes kirilowii.
2. Used for stomach heat vomiting and hiccups.
Bamboo Shavings have the effect of harmonizing the stomach and reducing adverse reactions. It is suitable for stomach heat vomiting, hiccups, etc., and is often used with drugs such as tangerine peel and Pinellia ternata; this product can also be used for pregnancy vomiting.
[Prescription name] Bamboo shavings, light bamboo shavings, bamboo shavings (raw), stir-fried bamboo shavings (scorched to reduce its coldness), ginger bamboo shavings, stir-fried bamboo shavings with ginger juice (adding an appropriate amount of ginger juice when stir-frying can reduce its coldness and enhance the antiemetic effect)
[Genel dozaj ve kullanım] Bir ila üç qian kaynatılıp içilir.
[Additional medicine] Bamboo juice: Cut fresh light bamboo, set it up, burn its central part, and light yellow juice will flow out from both ends. Put it in a container, which is bamboo juice. It is sweet and cold in nature, and has a stronger effect of clearing heat and resolving phlegm than bamboo shavings. It can be used for coughing with lung heat and phlegm, asthma and chest tightness, as well as coma due to stroke, phlegm congestion and other symptoms. It is often used with ginger juice. The general dosage is one to two liang, taken alone or with medicinal juice.
[Example of prescription] Tangerine peel and bamboo shavings soup “Golden Chamber Synopsis”: tangerine peel, bamboo shavings, ginseng, licorice, ginger, jujube. Treat hiccups.
This product is the dried middle layer of the stems of the grass plants Bambusa tuldoides Munro, Sinocalamusbeecheyanus (Munro) McClure var, pubescens RF.Li or Phvllostachys nigra (Lodd.) Munro var:henonis (Mit,) Stapf ex Rendle. It can be harvested throughout the year. Take fresh stems, remove the outer skin, scrape the slightly green middle layer into strips, or cut into thin slices, tie into bundles, and dry in the shade. The former is called “scattered bamboo ru”, and the latter is called “tied bamboo ru”.
[Özellikler]
This product is irregular silk strips curled into a ball or in the form of long thin slices. The width, thickness and thickness vary, and it is light green, yellow-green or yellow-white. It is fibrous, light, flexible and elastic. Slight odor, light taste.
[Denetleme]
Water content: not more than 7.0% (General Rule 0832 Method 2)
[Çıkarmak]
Determined by hot leaching method under water-soluble extract determination method (General Rule 2201), not less than 4.0%.
Kaynatma parçaları
[İşleme]
Bamboo shavings: remove impurities, cut into sections or knead into small balls.
[Özellikler]
[Denetleme]
Extract]
Same as medicinal materials.
Jingzhu shavings: Take clean bamboo shavings and stir-fry them according to the ginger juice roasting method (General Rule 0213) until yellow:
[Özellikler]
This product is shaped like bamboo shavings, with a yellow surface. Slightly smells of ginger.
[Denetleme]
Extract]
Same as medicinal materials.
[Doğa, lezzet ve meridyenler]
Sweet, slightly cold. Enters the lung, stomach, heart, and gallbladder meridians.
[Fonksiyonlar ve endikasyonlar]
Clears heat and resolves phlegm, relieves restlessness, and stops vomiting. Used for phlegm-heat cough, bile-fire with phlegm, palpitations, restlessness, insomnia, stroke with phlegm, tongue stiffness and inability to speak, stomach heat and vomiting, nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, and restless fetus
[Usage and Dosage]
5~10 gr.
[Depolamak]
Place in a dry place to prevent mold and moth.
What are the main medicinal parts of bamboo shavings?
Medicinal parts of bamboo shavings:
The dried middle layer of the stems of the grass plants Bambusa tuldoides Munro, Sinocalamus beecheyanus (Munro)McClure varPubescens P.F.Liz, and Phylostachys nigra (Lodd.)Munro var.henonis (Mitf.) Stapf ex Rendle.
It can be harvested throughout the year. Take fresh stems, remove the outer skin, scrape the slightly green middle layer into strips, or cut into thin slices, tie into bundles, and dry in the shade. The former is called “San Zhu Ru” and the latter is called “Qi Zhu Ru”.

Characteristics of the medicinal parts of Zhu Ru:
This product is an irregular silk strip curled into a ball or a long thin sheet. It varies in width, thickness, and light green, yellow-green or yellow-white. It is fibrous, light, flexible and elastic. It has a slight smell and a light taste.
How are Zhu Ru recorded in historical books?
“Famous Doctors’ Records”: “It is used to treat vomiting, warming qi, cold and heat, vomiting blood, and metrorrhagia.
“Compendium of Materia Medica”: “It is sweet and cold and can cool blood and clear heat, so it is used to treat vomiting blood, metrorrhagia and female fatigue.
“Ben Jing Feng Yuan”: “Clearing the heat of the stomach, it is an important medicine for deficiency and restlessness, thirst, and vomiting due to stomach deficiency.
Etkileri
Bamboo Ru has the effects of clearing heat and resolving phlegm, eliminating restlessness and vomiting, and calming the fetus.
What are the main effects and clinical applications of bamboo ru?
Bamboo Ru is used for cough due to phlegm heat, phlegm with gallbladder fire, palpitations, restlessness and insomnia, phlegm confusion due to stroke, tongue stiffness and aphasia, stomach heat and vomiting, nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, and restless fetus.
Phlegm heat cough, restlessness and insomnia
It is used to treat cough caused by phlegm heat blocking the lungs, and the phlegm is yellow and sticky. It is often used with Morus alba, Fritillaria cirrhosa, and Scutellaria baicalensis.
It is used to treat gallbladder heat invading the stomach, timidity and easy to be frightened due to internal disturbance of phlegm and fire, and restlessness and insomnia. It is often used with Pinellia ternata, Tangerine peel, Citrus aurantium, etc.
If used with Arisaema consanguineum, Bezoar, and ginger juice, it can also be used for stroke and phlegm confusion, tongue stiffness and aphasia.
Stomach heat vomiting, nausea and vomiting during pregnancy
It is used to treat stomach heat and vomiting, and is often used with Coptis chinensis and ginger, etc. . .
Treat vomiting due to deficiency of the stomach and heat, often used with ginseng, tangerine peel, ginger, etc.
Treat heat accumulation during pregnancy, nausea and vomiting, often with scutellaria, loquat leaves, tangerine peel, etc.
In addition, this product is sweet and cold and enters the blood, and can clear heat, cool blood and stop bleeding. It can treat vomiting blood, blood, hematuria and metrorrhagia caused by blood heat.
What other effects does bamboo shavings have?
In my country’s traditional food culture, some Chinese medicinal materials are often widely consumed as food ingredients by the people, that is, substances that are both food and Chinese medicinal materials according to tradition (i.e. edible medicinal substances). According to the documents issued by the National Health Commission and the State Administration for Market Regulation, bamboo shavings can be used as both medicine and food within a limited range of use and dosage.
Commonly used medicinal diet recipes for bamboo shavings are as follows!
Clear the stomach and stop vomiting, promote fluid production and quench thirst.
· 30g bamboo shavings, 6g black plums, and 3g licorice.
· Separate bamboo shavings, black plums, and licorice into Do not wash it. Put the above three herbs into the pot together and add appropriate amount of water. Bring to a boil over high heat, then continue to simmer over low heat.
Remove the residue and take the juice, and drink it instead of tea.
Clears heat and benefits the stomach, reduces adverse reactions and stops hiccups
30g of bamboo shavings, 30g of reed root, and 3 slices of ginger. Boil the above three herbs in water and drink it instead of tea.
What are the compound preparations containing bamboo shavings?
Wen Dan Tang
Regulates qi and resolves phlegm, harmonizes the stomach and promotes bile secretion. Indications: gallbladder depression and phlegm disturbance syndrome. Timid and easily startled, dizzy and palpitations, restlessness and insomnia, and many strange dreams at night; or vomiting, hiccups, dizziness and epilepsy. White and greasy fur, stringy and slippery pulse.
Jupi Zhu Ru Tang
Reduces adverse reactions and stops hiccups, replenishes qi and clears heat. Indications: hiccups caused by deficiency of the stomach and heat. Hiccups or dry retching, weak restlessness and shortness of breath, dry mouth, red and tender tongue, and weak and rapid pulse.
Children’s Qingfei Huatan Oral Liquid
Clears heat and resolves phlegm, relieves cough and asthma. It is used for cough caused by wind-heat invading the lungs in children, with symptoms of shortness of breath and cough Phlegm, wheezing, and throat noise.
Children’s cough syrup
Moistens the lungs, clears heat, stops coughing and resolves phlegm. It is used for fever, cough, yellow phlegm, uncomfortable coughing and vomiting, dry mouth and tongue, abdominal distension and constipation, and long-term cough and phlegm caused by internal phlegm heat in children.
Modern research progress on bamboo shavings
This product has multiple pharmacological effects such as expectorant, cough suppressant, antibacterial, antiemetic, and antioxidant.
Usage method
Bamboo shavings have the effects of clearing heat and resolving phlegm, eliminating restlessness and vomiting, and calming the fetus. Generally, bamboo shavings are used for decoction. Please follow the doctor’s advice for specific medication.
How to use bamboo shavings correctly?
When bamboo shavings are decoctioned for oral administration, the usual dosage is 5~10g.
After different processing methods, bamboo shavings and ginger bamboo shavings can be produced. Raw use tends to clear phlegm and heat, while ginger juice processing tends to soothe the stomach and stop vomiting. Different processing methods have different effects, but the medication method is the same. Please follow the doctor’s advice for specific medication.
Bamboo shavings are usually added to decoctions, boiled and taken, or made into powder or pills. However, the use of Chinese medicinal materials must be based on syndrome differentiation and treatment, and should be used under the guidance of professional Chinese medicine practitioners. Do not use them at will, and do not listen to Chinese medicine prescriptions and advertisements at will.
How to prepare bamboo shavings?
Bamboo shavings
Take the original medicinal materials, remove impurities and hard skin, cut into sections or knead into small balls.
Ginger bamboo shavings
Take bamboo shavings sections or balls, add ginger juice and mix well, moisten slightly, and after the ginger juice is absorbed, put them in a frying container, heat them over a low heat, and bake both sides until slightly yellow like a pancake method, then take them out and let them cool. For every 100kg of bamboo shavings, use 10kg of ginger.
Which drugs should be used with bamboo shavings at the same time with special attention?
The combined use of Chinese and Western medicines requires syndrome differentiation and treatment, and clinical individualized treatment.
Eğer başka ilaçlar kullanıyorsanız, lütfen ilacı almadan önce doktorunuza danışın ve doktorunuzu tüm teyit edilmiş hastalıklarınız ve aldığınız tedavi planları hakkında bilgilendirin.
Kullanım talimatları
Bamboo Ru is sweet and cool, so people with cold phlegm cough and asthma, cold stomach and vomiting should take it with caution.
What precautions should be taken when using bamboo Ru?
·People with cold phlegm cough, cold stomach and vomiting and spleen deficiency diarrhea should take it with caution.
During the medication period, you should pay attention to avoid eating cold, raw and cold food, spicy and greasy food, and avoid smoking and drinking.
Pregnant and breastfeeding women: If you are pregnant, planning to become pregnant or are breastfeeding, please inform your doctor in time and ask whether Chinese medicine can be used for treatment.
·Çocuklar: Çocuklar, ilaçlarını mutlaka doktor kontrolünde ve yetişkin gözetiminde almalıdır.
·Lütfen ilaçlarınızı uygun şekilde saklayınız ve kendi ilaçlarınızı başkalarıyla paylaşmayınız.
·İlaç kaynatmak için bakır veya demir kaplar kullanmaktan kaçının.
How to identify and use bamboo shavings?
Bamboo shavings are weak in medicinal power, and are mainly used to treat phlegm-heat cough and wheezing, irritability and insomnia, but they can also clear the stomach and stop vomiting, cool blood and stop bleeding, and can also be used for stomach heat vomiting and blood heat bleeding.
Bamboo shavings are strong and can calm the nerves. They can be used for phlegm-fire internal stagnation, wheezing, stroke, phlegm, epilepsy and mania. However, bamboo shavings are slippery and have strong expectorant power. They are not suitable for cold phlegm and loose stools.
Medication tips
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What are the effects of bamboo shavings and reed root tea?
[Composition] 30g bamboo shavings, 30g reed root, 3 slices of ginger.
[Preparation and use] Decoction of the above three flavors in water and drink instead of tea.
[Effects] Clear heat and benefit the stomach, reduce reverse flow and stop hiccups.
[Main indications and applications] Stomach qi upward reflux syndrome. Used for hiccups caused by stomach heat reverse qi upward rushing, and stomach qi failure to harmonize and descend due to deficiency in the middle. Clinically, this prescription can also be used to treat hot vomiting and hiccups in acute gastroenteritis, pyloric incomplete obstruction, and infectious and contagious diseases during the recovery period.
How to identify and use bamboo shavings?
Bamboo shavings are weak in medicinal power and are mainly used to treat phlegm-heat cough and wheezing, restlessness and insomnia, but they can also clear the stomach and stop vomiting, cool blood and stop bleeding, and can also be used for stomach heat vomiting and blood heat bleeding.
Bamboo shavings are strong and can calm the nerves. They can be used for phlegm-fire internal stagnation, wheezing, stroke, phlegm, epilepsy and mania. However, bamboo shavings are slippery and have strong expectorant power. They are not suitable for cold phlegm and loose stools.
Medication tips
Patients’ most frequently asked questions
What are the effects of bamboo shavings and reed root tea?
[Composition] 30g bamboo shavings, 30g reed root, 3 slices of ginger.
[Preparation and use] Decoction the above three flavors in water and drink instead of tea.
[Effects] Clear heat and benefit the stomach, reduce reflux and stop hiccups.
[Main indications and applications] Stomach qi upward reflux syndrome. It is used for hiccups caused by stomach heat and reverse qi rushing upward, and stomach qi failing to harmonize and descend due to deficiency in the middle part of the body. It can also be used to treat hot vomiting and hiccups caused by acute gastroenteritis, pyloric incomplete obstruction, and the recovery period of infectious and contagious diseases.