What is the use of bamboo?

Bamboo is a perennial subfamily of Gramineae, which has been called a gentleman since ancient times. it usually grows in pieces through underground creeping rhizomes, and it can also reproduce through flowering and seeding. The seeds are called bamboo rice. Some kinds of bamboo shoots can be eaten, not only for ornamental purposes, but also for a wide range of uses. let's take a look at the use of bamboo.

The ornamental value of Bamboo

Bamboo is an excellent landscaping and tourist ornamental plant. The cultivation, utilization and aesthetic activities of bamboo by the Chinese nation have a long history. China is called "the country of bamboo civilization" in the West, while Yunnan is known as "the hometown of bamboo in the world". Because bamboo has high tourism aesthetic and garden ornamental value, Yunnan is rich in bamboo resources and wonderful national bamboo culture. Bamboo culture tourism will play a special and important role in the construction of Yunnan tourism industry.

The Industrial value of Bamboo

Bamboo is growing fast. In recent years, for the sake of environmental protection, a large number of furniture and paper have been converted to bamboo, and handicrafts and musical instruments can also be made. Bamboo fibers made from bamboo by engineering methods through physical and chemical reactions are used as textiles, towels and clothing. Bamboo is baked into bamboo charcoal, which is used in many occasions, including the removal of environmental odors and special flavor foods. Activated carbon made from crushed and activated bamboo charcoal has good adsorption and purification, and is used in automobiles and homes, as well as sewage treatment. Bamboo is also often used to build scaffolding, building materials and daily necessities such as brooms, tables and chairs. Bamboo can also be made into baskets, back baskets, vegetable baskets, mats and other common rural areas. Bamboo has been widely used in home textile, socks, underwear and other close-fitting textile fields.

Medicinal value of Bamboo

1. Bamboo leaves: bamboo leaves have a long history of edible and medicinal use in China. Bamboo leaves are natural plants recognized and approved by the state for both medicine and food, with the effects of clearing away heat and removing annoyance, promoting diuresis and diuresis. Used for the treatment of fever, eclampsia, cough, vomiting and bleeding, red face, short urine, mouth sores and other diseases, let's take a look at the efficacy and effect of bamboo leaves!

2. Bamboo Lek: bamboo Lek splits the bamboo pole and collects bamboo juice dripping from both ends after burning. The Compendium of Materia Medica records: "Bamboo Lek smells sweet, Greater Cold, non-toxic." Indications: wind and wind arthralgia in a storm, heat in the chest, relieving boredom, eliminating thirst, and recovering from fatigue. " Modern pharmaceutical chemical analysis shows that Zhu Li contains more than ten kinds of amino acids, glucose, fructose, sucrose and many kinds of chemical components such as guaiacol, cresol, formic acid, acetic acid, benzoic acid and so on. Pharmacological tests show that Zhu Li has antitussive and expectorant effects.

3. Bamboo fruit: after flowering, the bamboo is as solid as wheat, the skin is blue, contains bamboo rice, and tastes sweet. Guangzhi records: "you can actually take it." "Compendium of Materia Medica"Zhu Shitong Shenqin skill is excellent, light body and benefit qi". "Compendium of Materia Medica" and "accumulate like gods". Modern studies have proved that the nutritional composition of bamboo seed is similar to that of rice, wheat and corn, which is not only rich in starch, protein and fat, but also contains 18 kinds of amino acids.

4. Bamboo rushes: bamboo stems scrape off the green skin, and then scrape off the second layer of things, also known as "bamboo erqing", "Compendium of Materia Medica" and "light bamboo rushes". The smell is sweet, slightly cold and non-toxic. It mainly treats vomiting, warm qi, cold and heat, hematemesis, collapse, stopping lung impotence, treating five hemorrhoids, women's fetal movement, bitter bamboo ru mainly treating heat obstruction, urine and blood.

5. Bamboo fungi: bamboo fungi refer to fungi that grow in bamboo forests, such as Dictyophora, etc. Its function of medicinal diet has been recorded in medical works such as Dietotherapy Materia Medica, Collection of Materia Medica, Compendium of Materia Medica and so on. Dictyophora has a long history as an edible fungus. In the past, it can only be collected from the wild, and the quantity is very limited. It is usually only used as a tribute to emperors. Now it has been cultivated artificially, and its yield and quality have been significantly improved.

6. Bamboo root: bamboo root in medicine has the effect of clearing heat and eliminating annoyance. "Compendium of Materia Medica"light bamboo root boiled juice service, in addition to annoyance and heat, quench Danshi's thirst." Bitter bamboo root mainly treats heart, lung and five internal organs heat poison gas. Sweet bamboo root, calming the fetus, stopping the fever after delivery.

7. Bamboo shoots: bamboo shoots are the buds of bamboo, not only with delicate tissue, crisp and delicious taste, but also rich in nutrition. as a medicinal diet resource in China has a long history, "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Materia Medica", "Dietotherapy Materia Medica", "Food Classic", "Qi Min Yao Shu", "Tang Materia Medica" and other classical works have been recorded. Such as the Compendium of Materia Medica, bamboo shoots taste sweet, non-toxic, the main thirst, water and qi, can be eaten for a long time.