Bamboo Shoot Nutrition and Function

Bamboo shoots are the stems of the bamboo perennial plant in the grass. Also known as Mao bamboo shoots, bamboo shoots and other bamboo shoots. Mainly produced in China's Yangtze River Valley and throughout the South, is an ordinary vegetable in southern China. There are many types of bamboo shoots that can be divided into winter bamboo shoots picked in the winter, spring bamboo shoots picked in the spring, and whipping bamboo shoots picked in the summer. Among them, the quality of bamboo shoots was the best, followed by spring bamboo shoots, and bamboo shoots were the worst.

Chinese medicine believes that bamboo shoots are sweet and cold; they enter the stomach and the large intestine. It has the functions of clearing away heat, removing water, reducing swelling, laxative, etc. There are many therapeutic parties. E.g:

(1) Cough with acute fever: 50 grams of bamboo shoots, 50 grams of pork, and 100 grams of rice. Add appropriate amount of salt, diced green onion, and sesame oil to eat.

(2) In children with measles and varicella, fever thirst and urination are unfavorable: 50 grams of fresh bamboo shoots, 250 grams of squid, a treat of soup, which can promote rashes and disease.

(3) long diarrhea, long time, rectal prolapse: fresh bamboo shoots 50 grams, 100 grams of rice, porridge eat.

(4) postpartum heat, upset, hand, foot and heart heat: 100 grams of fresh bamboo shoots, it is best to use fresh Zhuru, bamboo heart, Shuijianbi, soup.

(5) Constipation: fresh bamboo shoots 100 grams, cooking, cooking can be.

In addition, the use of fresh bamboo shoots root boiled water on behalf of the tea Changyin can lower blood cholesterol, play a role in weight loss, treatment of hyperlipidemia, hypertension.

Since bamboo shoots contain more oxalic acid, it will affect the body's absorption of calcium. Children are at a physical stage and should not eat too much; there are urinary tract stones that are unfit for human consumption. Some people who are allergic to bamboo shoots should avoid eating.