Bamboo Leaf (Zhuye)

Bamboo Leaf (Zhuye)

Pharmaceutical Name: Folium bambusae
Botanical Name: Phyllostachy nigra (Lodd.) Munro var. henonis (Mitf.) Stapf ex Rendle
Common Name:Bamboo leaf
Bambusa
Source of Earliest Record: Mingyi Bielu
art Used & Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations: The leaves are picked at any time. It is best to prepare fresh leaves for use.
Properties and Taste: Sweet and cold
Meridian: Heart, lung, and stomach
Functions: To clear heat and relieve irritability
To promote urination
Indications and Combinations: 1.     Thirst in febrile disease
*Use with Gypsum (Shigao) and Ophiopogon root (Maidong) in the formula Zhuye Shigao Tang.

2.  Flaring up of heat fire manifested as ulceration in the mouth or on the tongue; or heart fire shifting to the small intestine manifested as dribbling urination.
*Use with Clematis stem (Mutong) and Fresh rehmannia root (Shengdihuang) in the formula Daochi San.
Dosage: 6-15 g