Can pregnant women drink water boiled with bamboo shoots?

Bamboo Root belongs to clearing heat and phlegm medicines, pregnant women with drug-related indications can drink Bamboo Root boiled water under the guidance of a doctor, but should not be taken too much. Bamboo Ru can be used as a traditional Chinese medicine, and its medicinal source is the dried middle layer of the stalks of the grass plant green culm bamboo, big-headed Dianzhu bamboo, or light bamboo. Bamboo Root is sweet in taste, slightly cold in nature, and belongs to the lung, stomach, heart and gallbladder meridians. It is used for coughing with phlegm-heat, phlegm-held by gallbladder fire, palpitations, insomnia, phlegm-confusion in stroke, strong tongue, vomiting with gastric fever, malignant obstruction of pregnancy (in early pregnancy, there is heavy nausea and vomiting, dizziness and anorexia, or even vomiting when food is ingested), and restlessness of fetus and other heat symptoms. Adverse reactions are not clear, but cold phlegm cough, stomach cold vomiting and diarrhea of spleen deficiency is prohibited. As the effects of bamboo rhizome boiled water and bamboo rhizome are the same, pregnant women can be instructed by their doctors to use the medicine if they have relevant indications for the drug. However, the nature of the bamboo shoots is slightly cold, pregnant women should not take too much, so as not to stimulate the stomach and intestines, resulting in abdominal pain, diarrhea and other discomforts.