Wednesday 14 August 2013

Bambusa Arundinacea Vamsah, Venuh ,Thorny bamboo




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.



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.

Uses :The leaves are sweet, astringent, cooling, emmenagougue, opthalmic, vulnerary, constipating and febrifuge. Bamboo leaves contain the highest protein levels, stems have less.The bamboo resin (Tabasheer, Banshalochan) is the Siliceous secretion found in the internodes of the stems of various species of Bamboo. It occuors in fragments of masses, and is translucent or transparent and bluish white color. It is astringent, acrid, sweet, cooling, expectorent, constipating, cardiotonic, haemostatic, aphrodisiac, diuretic.

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    disease. 


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