Bamboo leaf grass reduces fever and acts as a diuretic.

- Bamboo leaf grass, also known as bamboo grass, bamboo grass, water bamboo, or water bamboo. The medicinal part is the entire plant, with the rootlets removed, dried in the sun or in a dryer, bundled into small bunches, and cut into short pieces of about 2-3 cm when used.

Bamboo leaf grass, also known as water bamboo, is the entire plant used as medicine. The roots are removed, the plant is dried in the sun or in a dryer, and bundled into small bunches. When used, it is cut into short pieces of about 2-3 cm. It can be used fresh, sun-dried, or oven-dried. Bamboo leaf grass has a sweet taste, is slightly cool in nature, and acts on the heart, small intestine, and bladder meridians. Its effects include clearing heart fire, relieving restlessness, reducing inflammation, detoxifying, and promoting diuresis. It is used in cases of high fever, thirst, restlessness, mouth and tongue sores, urinary tract infections, etc. The daily dose is 6-10g in the form of a decoction or in combination with other herbs.

Bamboo grass

Bamboo grass.

To treat urethritis with scanty urination, painful urination, and frequent urination: 20g of bamboo leaf, 10g of *Tetrapanax papyriferus*, 10g of *Trichosanthes kirilowii*, 6g of licorice root, and 10g of *Phellodendron amurense*. Decoction for oral administration.

To treat persistent low-grade fever, blurred vision, flushed face, and headache: take 12g of bamboo leaf and 9g of Artemisia annua. Decoction for oral administration.

To treat symptoms of heat, fever, dry mouth, restlessness, and general weakness: 12g of bamboo leaves, 24g of gypsum, 16g of Pinellia ternata, 12g of ginseng, 6g of licorice, 16g of Ophiopogon japonicus, and 32g of Oryza sativa. Decoction for oral administration.

To treat symptoms of excessive heat, reddish urine, high fever, and oral mucosal ulcers: Coptis chinensis 5g, Phellodendron amurense 10g, Phellodendron amurense 10g, Scutellaria baicalensis 10g, Gardenia jasminoides 10g, Glycyrrhiza glabra 5g.

To treat wind-heat syndrome (headache, fever with chills, lack of sweating, body heat, sore throat, thirst): honeysuckle flower 12g, fermented soybean 36g, mint 12g, burdock seed 12g, peppermint 16g, forsythia 8g, licorice 8g, bamboo leaf 16g, burdock seed 12g. Decoction for oral administration.

To treat damp-heat syndrome (fever, body aches, sweating, epigastric discomfort, nausea...): Coix seeds 24g, fresh bamboo leaves 12g, talc 24g, cardamom 8g, forsythia 8g, poria cocos 12g, and tectorum aestivum 6g. Decoction for oral administration.

To treat fluid and qi deficiency (fever with sweating, weakness in the limbs, yellow urine, weak and powerless pulse): Codonopsis pilosula 8g, Dendrobium nobile 10g, Ophiopogon japonicus 10g, Coptis chinensis 4g, fresh Phyllostachys nigra 12g, Anemarrhena asphodeloides 12g, Perilla frutescens 8g, Glycyrrhiza glabra 4g, Oryza sativa 32g, Trichosanthes kirilowii 12g. Decoction for oral administration.

Taboos:People who do not have low body temperature and pregnant women should not use it.

According to Health and Life