Bamboo root

Bamboo root

(Chongqing herbal medicine)

[synonym] - leaf root (classified herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root of the gramineous plant Phyllostachys pubescens.

[plant morphology] Phyllostachys pubescens, also known as Phyllostachys pubescens.

Small bamboos. The stem is 60 cm in height, 2-3 mm in diameter, with 8-9 nodes. The internodes are smooth and glabrous, cylindric or slightly grooved on one side of the base, about 5-10.5 cm long; sheath ring is obvious, culm ring slightly uplifted, sheath persistent, clinging to internodes, pale grass color, 4-8 cm long, thick paper, back densely covered with white villi, backward surface with dents or small black warts, upper part is thin, close to the edge densely ciliated, up to 1 mm long; sheath is smooth and glabrous, 4-8 cm long Ear undeveloped; sheath tongue glabrous, brown, membranous, 4-6 mm high, apex with 2 protuberances; sheath leaf persistent, small, triangular to apically ovate, 3-15 mm long, glabrous above, margin coarser, involute; culm only 1 branch per node, no longer branched, glabrous but with white wax powder. The branches and sheaths are orange red when they are dry. The leaf sheath is yellowish green, 5-8.5cm long, glabrous on the back, with cilia on the outer edge of the lowest leaf sheath, without auricles and glabrous hairs on the sheath mouth; the leaf blade is broadly lanceolate, 6-15.8cm long, 18-47mm wide, apex acuminate and slender tip, base rounded and contracted into a stalk, midrib protruding below, 5-8 pairs of secondary veins, small transverse veins very dense, margin narrow Small serrate, coarse. Petiole glabrous and whitish, ca. 5 mm. Inflorescence not seen.

Around the living house, there are some plants. It is distributed in Sichuan.

[pharmacological action] the same plant "wujiugu" (meaning "bone" in Japanese) is effective on ah39 ascites hepatoma in rats. The water extract of "Xionggu" (mangosteen from Kyushu, Japan) can excite the isolated frog heart in a small amount, inhibit it in a large amount, and has the effects of lowering blood pressure, diuresis and exciting the isolated intestine. The polyphenols in the wood of "bone" leaf may be the components that inhibit the proliferation of tumor cells.

[flavor] Chongqing herbal medicine: "sweet, cool, non-toxic. "

[functions and indications] ① classified herbal medicine: "it can cure all kinds of tuberculosis, vomiting, collapse and cough. Go to the wind. "

② Chongqing herbal medicine: "treating fire toothache. "

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