Bamboo shell

[ source ] from" folk medicinal herbs commonly used compilation"
[ ] B n Zh Pinyin name a cabinet K e
English name [ ] sheaths of Giant Timber Bamboo
[ source ]
Medicine source: for Gramineae gilly leaves the sheaths.
Latin animal mineral name: Phyllostachys bambusoides Sieb.et Zucc
Harvest and storage: 4-7 months of recovery, to the hair, use fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of several plants woody, a treelike. Underground stem ( rhizome ) Festival morning long 25-45mm, coarse diameter 16-20mm, solid or hollow, with bud side is a deep groove, micro was bilaterally compressed, each section in addition to bud, and tuberculate 14-16; bud single students, triangular ovate, glossy surface, ca. 1cm, central longitudinal. Culm height up to 20m, thick 15cm, young culm internodes glabrous; for 40cm, wall thickness of about 5mm; pole ring is slightly higher than the sheaths saddle ring; sheaths leathery, abaxially yellowish brown, sometimes with purple or green, with dense brown purple patch with small spots and veins, student shedding flow on the brown bristles; sheaths guide small or large shape and a sickle, purple-brown, brush hairs usually grow good; sheaths lingual arch, pale brown or greenish, edge having cilia; blades strip, both sides of middle green, purple, yellow straight edge, or even on top of wrinkling, hallux valgus. The final small technology with 2-4 leaf; leaf ear semicircular, developed their hair, often in a radially; ligule significantly extended, arching or sometimes truncate; leaf blade length 5.5-15cm, width 15-2.5cm. Flowers in spikes, long 5-8cm, base the Ministry has 3-5 gradually enlarged scale-like bract; spathe 6-8, leaves small ears shape or nearly so, brush hairs usually exist, short. Reduced Ye Yuan ovate to linear-lanceolate. Base contracted circular, upper acuminate with awnlike, each piece of Buddha stuffing bracts intraocular with 1 school or sometimes: gold, dilute to 3 false spikelets, push the base 1-3 bracts glue without false spikelets and bracts caducous; spikelets lanceolate, long 2.5-3cm, containing 1 or 2 ( - 3 ) flower; rachilla extension to the needle-like pregnant floret palea rear. The top often have different degrees of degraded floret, internodes are finely pubescent; glumes 1 or absent; and a long 2-2.5cm, puberulous, apex acuminate with awnlike; within the stop slightly shorter than lemma, in addition to the 2 ridge, apex usually have small hair; lodicules rhombic long elliptic, long 3.5-4mm, long 11-14mm: style longer anthers, stigmas 3, feather. Bamboo shoot period in late May
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: from the mountains to the west by Wuyishan veins are visible throughout the southwest wild plants.
Resource distribution: distribution in the Yellow River basin and its southern parts.
[ ] the taste of bitter cold;
[ ] cooling functions appear rash. The main body of typhus fever.
[ usage]: oral decoction, 6-9g; the burning ash deposit service.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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