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Botanical Name :
Bambusa
Arundinacea
Sanskrit name
:
Vamsah, Venuh
English Name :
Thorny
bamboo
Family:
Gramineae
Part Used:
Bamboo
leaves, Bamboo Exudate, Banshalochan, Tabasheer
Description of
Bambusa Arundinacea :
A tall
thorny bamboo upto 30 m in height with many sterns, tufted on stout
root stock, nodes prominent, the lowest rooting, internodes upto 45 cm
long, stem sheath coriaceous, orange-yellow, streaked, glabrous or
puberulous beneath, base rounded, ciliate, tip stiff, midrib narrow,
leaf sheaths with a short bristly auricle, ligule short; spikelets
glabrous, yellow or yellowish green, in very long panicles, often
occupying the whole stem, floral glumes, 3-7 in number, the uppermost
1-3 male or neuter, lodicules 3, hyaline, 1-3 nerved, ciliate; fruits
oblong grains, beaked by the style base, grooved on one side.
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Chemical Constituent:
Analysis
of tender shoots gave protein, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron,
magnesium, sodium, copper, chlorine, thiamine, vitamin-C etc.
Medicinal Uses:
1. It is used in diarrhoea, dyspepsia, flatulence and worm problems.
2. It is used in fever, inflammations, ulcers and wounds.
3. It is also used in vomiting, hyperdipsia and burning sensation.
4. It helps to cure cough, bronchitis, asthma, asthmatic bronchitis and
emphysema.
5. It is used in strangury, syphilis, ophthalmia and haemorrhages.
Toxicology:
No
toxic effect was seen on human body with its consumption.
Herbal Extract packing:
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