Bamboo root

[ source ] from" folk medicinal herbs commonly used compilation"
[ ] C Pinyin name Zh G n cabinet Golf
English name [ ] rhizome of Omei Mountain Bamboo
[ source ]
Medicine source: for gramineous plants bamboo root.
Latin animal mineral name: Neosinocalamus affinis ( Rendli ) Keng f. [ Sinocalmus affinis ( Rendle ) McClure]
Harvest and storage: the year may dig, clean, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original form of a treelike plant. High 5-10m, tip elongated arched or sagging, the rod were about 30 knots; internodes cylindrical, long 15-30( - 60) cm, diameter 3-6cm, surface adnate gray or brown wart medium spinule hairs; culm sheaths ring ring flat; obvious; sheaths leathery, densely white pubescent and brown back black bristles, scabbard mouth wide and slightly concave, the mountain shape, culm ear without; sheaths tongue fringed edges, together with Mao Gao about1cm Xu; blades on both surfaces white thorn wool, with many veins. Rod each save with more than 20branches, a whorled pattern clustering, horizontal extension, at slightly significantly, its lower internodes length10cm, diameter of about 5mm. Ultimate branchlets and leaf number leaf; leaf sheath length4-8cm, glabrous, with longitudinal ribs; ligule truncate, brownish black, high 1-1.5mm, margin erose fine crack; narrow leaves lanceolate, glabrous above, the following are finely pilose, secondary veins5-10 on2-3mm; petiole is long. Squid Shu Sheng, often curved ptosis, long 20-60cm, length1.5-5.5cm; false spikelets up to1.5cm; Ying0-1, length 6-7mm; lemma broadly ovate, with many veined, margin students cilia, palea ridge with cilia; lodicules3-4; stamens 6; style with tiny hairs, to split the2-4stigmas. Fruit spindle-shaped, yellowish brown, with seed separation and saccate fruit. 6-9 month or shoot period from December to March the following year, florescence in7-9month, but can last for several months.
[ ] habitat distribution
The ecological environment is more common in Cultivation: farm house flat or low hilly.
Resource distribution: distribution in throughout the southwest.
[ ] milk functions. The main milk not
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,15-30g,60-120g or stewed fresh goods.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/