Today we would like to introduce you to the medicine related to bamboo. It belongs to the medicine of clearing heat and phlegm, and is the juice extracted from bamboo after processing. It is mainly used to treat phlegm-heat coughs, and is especially good for children’s convulsions, and is often used in combination with drugs to calm the wind and calm the fear, and is commonly used in pediatrics. Its discovery is said to be related to Han Xiangzi, one of the Eight Immortals. The legend of Han Xiangzi and the bamboo leech According to legend, a long time ago, there was a couple living under the Tianmu Mountain, they were kind and did a lot of good deeds. When they grew old, they lived a happy and quiet life under the mountain. One day, the old woman suddenly got phlegm and fire disease, coughing, stuffy, phlegm, and restless. Han Xiangzi, one of the Eight Immortals, happened to pass by the place and had a desire to relieve her illness, so he came to their house in the guise of a doctor. He put one end of the bamboo into the stove, and after a short time, some juice slowly dripped out of the bamboo. Han Xiangzi took half of the bowl of juice and brought it to the old woman. Soon after the old woman drank the juice, all her symptoms disappeared. Since this medicine has no name, and Han Xiangzi is to take local materials, fresh bamboo to make the medicine, so it is named “fresh bamboo leach”. Origin and function of bamboo leach Source: The light yellow clarified liquid juice flowing from the bamboo pole of green straw bamboo, big-headed bamboo or light bamboo, etc., which is roasted by fire. Taste: Sweet, cold; belongs to the heart, lung and liver meridians. Effects: Clears heat and expels phlegm, settles fright and relieves orifices. Note: “Compendium of Materia Medica”: “bamboo leech is cold and slippery, mostly due to wind and fire and dry heat and phlegm is appropriate; if cold and damp stomach deficiency intestinal slippery people take it, it is anti-injury gastrointestinal.” Usage and dosage: 1. 30-50g for internal use, to be taken in a flush. 2, this product can not be stored for a long time, can be boiled paste storage or sealed with a sealed jar. Bamboo leach of taking the “herbal diffusion”: “bamboo leach phlegm, through the upper and lower hundred bones hair orifices everywhere, such as phlegm in the top can be lowered, phlegm in the chest and diaphragm can be opened, the skin in the limbs can be dispersed, phlegm in the viscera and meridians can be beneficial. Phlegm in the skin and membrane outside the feasible. Another example is epilepsy and madness, wind-heat spasm can be fixed; phlegm syncope and loss of voice, personnel coma can be saved, for phlegm family of the holy agent.” Therefore, bamboo leech can treat: 1, phlegm-heat cough and asthma This product is cold and slippery, with strong expectorant power. It is most suitable for treating coughing and asthma with phlegm heat, thick phlegm that is difficult to be coughing, and stubborn phlegm that is stuck together. 2. Stroke and phlegm confusion, epilepsy and epilepsy This product enters the heart and liver meridian, is good at removing phlegm and draining heat to open the orifice and calm the panic, and is often used with Bile South Star and Niuhuang.