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Research Background
The Bamboo Juice, which is also called Fresh Bamboo Juice or Light Bamboo Juice or Bamboo Oil, is the juice of light bamboo or green bamboo that belong to the branch of standing grain root. It is a frequently used trad. Ch. Medicine that has antipyretic function and can reduce phlegm. The flavor is sweet. The character is cold and smooth. It belongs to the channels of heart, lung and stomach. It can facilitate every channel and internal organs, reduce phlegm, nourish body and brighten eyes. It can cure several diseases such as lungs fever, phlegm heat, asthma, phlegm blockage, internal heat, apoplexy, worriment, thirst, anemia and perspiration blockage, and etc. The bamboo juice could cure the consumption, asthma, phlegm, child pneumonia, asthmatic tracheitis and bronchus asthma and so on, which were recorded detailedly in several ancient pharmacopoeias such as the <Herbal Introduction>, the <Herbal Property>, the <Herbal Addition> and the <Herbal Annotations>. It has also entered into the list of the <Trad. Ch. Pharmacology> that is a modern pharmacopoeia, in which it is introduced as a medicine of antipyretic and reducing phlegm. The bamboo juice preparations in the past were all liquid, which is inconvenient and easy to be polluted. Capsule not only can conceal the unwell bitter taste and smell, but also can strengthen the activity and increase the utilization ratio of organism. It conforms to the developmental spirit of medical preparation that are Three Efficiencies(High Efficiency, Rapid Efficiency, Long Efficiency) and Three Smalls(Small Dosage, Small Toxicity, Small Side Effect).

Theory of Trad. Ch. Medicine
The trad. Ch. medicine believes that the lung is responsible for breath. If the lung is disordered, the internal heat will emerge. The heat damages the lung, and then forms phlegm that would block the arteries and veins of lung and cause several diseases such as the lungs heat, cough, polyphlegm, asthma and stuff chest. The phlegm is the product of visceral misadjustment and metabolic obstacle. If the phlegm forms, it will remain in the body and cause many kinds of diseases. It is also the cause of apoplexy. Worry, indignation, excess of sexual intercourse and work, etc. will make liver fire be high. Additionally, if the diet isnt controlled or drinking too much, the phlegm will be formed and produce heat. The internal wind carries phlegm to disturb arteries and veins, which will cause apoplexy that can lead to hemiplegia, paralysis and phlegm blockage. Bamboo juice can reduce phlegm and open up blocked arteries and reins. For example, the phlegm can be brought down if it is in head, can be open if it is in chest, can be scattered if it is in four limbs, can benefit if it is in viscus and can circulate if it is in thin. It also can cure epilepsy, convulsion, stupor and aphonia.
Functional Mechanism
Bamboo juice mainly includes many kinds of amino acid, phenol, organic acid and several ions such as potassium, natrium and calcium, among which the main active compositions are three amino acids that are mendong amino acid, guang amino acid and protein amino acid. The mendong amino acid can promote the lymph cell to develop into the mature lymph cell of T type. In addition, it can strengthen auxiliarily the immunity which is beneficial to lighten the extent of inflammation. The guang amino acids chemical structure is similar to the structure of several expectorants. The protein amino acid can turn to be the half-guang amino acid that can have an effect with the guang amino acid. The Yuchuang woodphenol is the main composition in bamboo juice to cure cough.
Technological Research Report
The bamboo juice is a frequently used trad. Ch. medicine having the functions of antipyretic and reducing phlegm. It is also applied extensively in clinical uses.
It can be used alone or with other trad. Ch. medicine. The traditional method of concocting bamboo juice is to collect the liquid flown out from the heated fresh bamboo pole firstly, and then to add the preservative to the boiled liquid. Finally, to install it partly into glass bottles, which are convenient to be taken along or transported. However, if the big package of 100ml cant be used up, it is easy to be polluted. In order to overcome the above disadvantages and according to the pill or medicinal extract recorded in the traditional methods of using medicine, we adopt the enriched method of low temperature and pressure to make it be dense and produce it to be capsule for clinical use. Capsule can conceal the unwell bitter taste and smell and make the medicine be neat, pleasing to the eye and easy to be taken. Furthermore, it has high utilization ratio of medical organism, powerful stability and convenient transportation. The weight of each bamboo juice capsule is 0.3g which equivalent to 7.5ml bamboo juice. Take 2 to 4 pellets