The Healing Powers of Bamboo Leaf Ginseng: A Guide to Usage and Benefits

April 14, 2024

Chinese medicine "Bamboo Leaf Ginseng" is the root and rhizome of the lily family plant Guangdong Wanshou Bamboo. It is harvested in summer and autumn and has the functions of promoting bone healing, stopping bleeding, reducing inflammation, relieving pain, and dispelling wind and dampness. It can also be used to make soup. Let's take a look at the specific usage with the editor!
 


 

Bamboo Leaf Ginseng clears heat and detoxifies, relaxes tendons and activates blood circulation. It is used to treat high fever that does not recede, weakness and bone steaming, damp and hot sensation, rheumatism and paralysis, joint, waist and leg pain, dysmenorrhea, excessive menstruation, carbuncle, furuncle, bruises, and fractures.

"Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine": "Nourishes Yin, replenishes deficiency, dispels wind and dampness, and relieves pain.

Treats weakness and bone steaming, pulmonary tuberculosis, palpitations and shortness of breath, rheumatic waist and leg pain, sciatica. "

"Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine": "Promotes bone healing, stops bleeding, reduces inflammation, and relieves pain."

"Jiangxi Herbal Medicine": "Dispels wind, disperses heat, relaxes tendons, and activates blood circulation."

Treatment for high fever in children: Take an appropriate amount of mountain bamboo flower roots, grind them into powder. Take one qian (Chinese unit of weight, equivalent to 3.75 grams) each time, twice a day, and take with cold water.

Treatment for paralysis of hands and feet: Take two liang (Chinese unit of weight, equivalent to 50 grams) of mountain bamboo flower roots and one chicken egg. Stew with water and consume the soup with the egg.

Treatment for rheumatic joint pain, dysmenorrhea, excessive menstruation, and pulmonary tuberculosis: Take three to five qian (Chinese unit of weight, equivalent to 11.25 grams to 18.75 grams) of white root medicine. Decoction or stew with chicken. (Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine)

Treatment for bruises, fractures, gunshot wounds, furuncles, and cellulitis: Mash the white root medicine (fresh) and apply it to the affected area. (Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine)

Take 9-15 grams of Bamboo Leaf Ginseng (Guangdong Wanshou Bamboo, also known as Mountain Bamboo Flower, white root medicine), one clean chicken, and an appropriate amount of five-spice seasoning.

Method: Wrap the Bamboo Leaf Ginseng in gauze, stuff it into the chicken's belly, and stew it in a sand pot until the chicken meat is tender and falls off the bones. Add the five-spice seasoning to taste. Eat the chicken and drink the soup.

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