- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Gramineae
- English Names
- Natural Habitat
- Brazil
- Southern Mexico
- India
- Ceylon
- Indonesia
- China
- Part(s) Used
- Folia
- shoot
- Semen (A substance named "Tabashir" is found in the joints of large female bamboos, residing in the interior of the stem. This substance is a kind of manna)
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- Constituent(s)
- Tabashir: silica
- alumina
- lime
- potash
- cholin
- betain
- Action
- leaf: emmenagogue
- anthelmintic
- nutritive (the tender shoots are eaten like asparagus). Tabashir: stimulant
- aphrodisiac
- pectoral
- cooling
- tonic; used for the treatment of paralysis and erysipelas; said to be a sovereign remedy for catarrh
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