毛笋，中药名。为禾本科刚竹属植物毛竹Phyllostachysedulis（Carrière）J.Houz.的嫩苗。植物毛竹，分布自秦岭、汉水流域至长江流域以南台湾省，黄河流域也有多处栽培。具有化痰，消胀，透疹之功效。主治食积腹胀，痘疹不出。
Mao-sun, name of Chinese Medicinal Material. efers to the tender shoots of Phyllostachys edulis (Carrière) J.Houz., a plant belonging to the Bambusoideae family. The plant is distributed from the Qinling Mountains and the Han River basin to the southern Yangtze River basin, including Taiwan Province, and is also cultivated in many areas in the Yellow River basin. Mao-sun is known for its efficacy in resolving phlegm, reducing swelling, and promoting rash eruption. It is mainly used to treat food stagnation and abdominal distension, as well as to promote the eruption of rashes.

功效作用 功能
Efficacy and Functions

化痰，消胀，透疹。主治
Resolve phlegm, reduce swelling, and clear rashes. Main treatment.

食积腹胀，痘疹不出。用法用量
Food stagnation causing abdominal distension and acne not erupting. Dosage and administration.

内服：煎汤，30-60g；或煮食。注意事项
Internal administration: decoction, 30-60g; or can be taken orally. Please pay attention to the following precautions.

脾胃虚弱者慎服。相关论述
Those with weak spleen and stomach should be cautious when taking this medication. Further discussion is needed.

《纲目拾遗》：“毛笋，即茅竹笋，笋之大者。《笋谱》：毛笋为诸笋之王，其箨有毛，故名。俗呼为猫笋者，非也。大者重几二十余斤，忧未出土，肉白如霜，堕地即碎，以指掐之，其软嫩如腐，嗅之作兰香。毛笋大者，清明后方有，其出于腊月及正月者，形短小，箨亦有毛，土人名猫儿头，食之多嘈心，然消痰之力，较胜他笋。”临床应用 相关配伍
"Compendium of Materia Medica": "Mao Sun, also known as Mao Zhu Sun, is the largest type of bamboo shoot. According to the "Bamboo Shoot Catalog", Mao Sun is considered the king of all bamboo shoots due to the hair-like fibers on its sheath. It is commonly mistaken as 'cat bamboo shoot', which is incorrect. The larger ones can weigh over twenty pounds. If not harvested in time, the flesh, as white as frost, will turn to mush upon falling to the ground. When pinched with fingers, it feels as soft and tender as decayed flesh, emitting a fragrance resembling orchids. The larger Mao Sun shoots are only available after the Qingming Festival. Those harvested in the twelfth lunar month and the first lunar month are shorter in size, with hairy sheaths, and are locally known as 'cat's head'. While they may cause some irritation in the heart when consumed, their phlegm-dispelling properties surpass other types of bamboo shoots." Clinical applications and relevant combinations.

1、治痰热咳嗽，毛笋同肉煮食。（《家庭常用食物食疗方》）2、治糖尿病（肺热型）。鲜竹笋1个，去皮切片，同粳米共煮成粥，每日分2次服。（《家庭常用食物食疗方》）3、治肾炎，心脏病，肝脏病等浮肿腹水。毛笋、陈蒲瓜各60克，或加冬瓜皮30克，水煎服。（《家庭常用食物食疗方》）4、治小儿泻痢脱肛，鲜嫩竹笋适量，加糯米煮粥食用。（《家庭常用食物食疗方》）加工炮制 采收加工

1. Treat phlegm-heat cough by cooking fresh bamboo shoots with meat. (From "Common Food Therapy Recipes for Families")2. Treat diabetes (lung-heat type) by slicing and cooking one fresh bamboo shoot with peeled glutinous rice to make porridge, taken twice daily. (From "Common Food Therapy Recipes for Families")3. Treat edema and ascites in conditions such as nephritis, heart disease, and liver disease. Take 60g each of fresh bamboo shoots and Chenpu melon, or add 30g of winter melon peel, decoct in water and consume. (From "Common Food Therapy Recipes for Families")4. Treat pediatric diarrhea and anal prolapse by cooking an appropriate amount of fresh tender bamboo shoots with glutinous rice to make porridge. (From "Common Food Therapy Recipes for Families")Processing and preparation: Harvest and process the bamboo shoots.

4月采挖，鲜用。植物学信息 植物种属
Harvest in April and use fresh. Botanical information: Genus of the plant.

禾本科刚竹属植物毛竹。形态特征
Moso bamboo, a plant belonging to the Poaceae family, is characterized by its morphology.

毛竹，别名猫头竹《新安志》，江南竹《汝南圃史》，猫竹，茅竹《群芳谱》，南竹《中国树木分类学》，孟宗竹、狸头竹《中药大辞典》。高大竹类，竿高达20m以上，粗者可达20cm以上。幼竿密被细柔毛及厚白粉，老竿无毛，并由绿色渐变为绿黄色；基都节间甚短而向上则逐渐较长，中部节间长达40cm；竿环不明显，低于箨环或在细竿中隆起。箨鞘背面黄褐色或紫褐色，具黑褐色斑点及密生棕色刺毛；箨耳小，耳缘有毛；箨舌宽短，强隆起乃至为尖拱形，边缘具粗长纤毛；箨片较短，长三角形至披针形，初时直立，以后外翻。末级小技具2-4叶；叶片被针形，长4-11cm，宽5-14mm，有小横脉，表面光滑，背面在治中脉基部具柔毛，次脉3-6对，再次脉9条。花枝穗状，长5-7cm，基部托以4-6片鳞片状苞片，有时花枝下方尚有l-3片近于正常发达的叶，此时花枝呈顶生状；佛焰苞通常在10片以上，常偏于一侧，覆瓦状排列，下部数片不孕而早落，致使花枝下部露出面类似花枝的柄，上部的边缘生纤毛及微毛，无叶耳，具易落的鞘口䍁毛，缩小叶小，披针形至锥状，每片孕性佛焰苞内具l-3枚假小穗；小穗仅有1朵小花，小穗轴延伸于最上方小花的内稃的背部，呈针状，节间具短柔毛；颖1片，长15-28mm，先端常具锥状缩小叶有如佛焰苞，下部、上部以及边缘常生毛茸；外稃长22-24mm，上部及边缘被毛，内稃稍短于外稃，中部以上生有毛茸；鳞被披针形，长约5mm；花丝长4cm，花药长约12mm；桂头3，羽毛状。颖果长椭圆形，先端有宿存的花柱基部。笋期4月，花期5-8月。生长环境
Mao bamboo, also known as Cat Head Bamboo in "Xin'an Zhi", Jiangnan Bamboo in "Runan Pushi", Cat Bamboo, Reed Bamboo in "Qunfang Pu", Southern Bamboo in "Chinese Tree Classification", Mengzong Bamboo, and Litu Bamboo in "Compendium of Chinese Medicine". This type of bamboo is tall, with stems reaching over 20 meters in height and thickness exceeding 20 centimeters. The young stems are densely covered with fine soft hairs and thick white powder, while the old stems are hairless and gradually change from green to greenish-yellow. The internodes at the base are very short and gradually become longer upwards, with the middle internodes reaching up to 40 cm in length. The stem nodes are not obvious, lower than the node rings or slightly raised in thinner stems. The back of the sheath is yellow-brown or purple-brown, with black-brown spots and densely covered with brown prickly hairs. The auricles of the sheath are small with hairy edges. The sheath tongue is wide and short, strongly arched to a pointed arch shape, with coarse long fibrous hairs on the edges. The sheath blades are relatively short, ranging from triangular to lanceolate, initially upright and later turning outward. The ultimate branches have 2-4 leaves; the leaf blades are needle-shaped, 4-11 cm long, 5-14 mm wide, with small transverse veins, smooth surface, and soft hairs at the base of the central vein on the back, 3-6 pairs of secondary veins, and 9 tertiary veins. The flower branches are spike-like, 5-7 cm long, with 4-6 scale-like bracts at the base, sometimes with 1-3 leaves below the flower branches that are nearly normally developed, making the flower branches appear terminal; the bracts usually number more than 10, often biased to one side, arranged in a tile-like pattern, with several infertile lower bracts that fall early, exposing a stem-like structure resembling the flower branch, with fibrous and micro hairs on the upper edges, no auricles, easily shed sheath mouth hairs, reduced small leaves, lanceolate to conical, each fertile bract containing 1-3 false spikelets; each spikelet has only 1 flower, the spikelet axis extending from the back of the inner glume of the uppermost flower, needle-shaped, with short soft hairs on the internodes; 1 glume, 15-28 mm long, often with a conical reduced leaf at the tip resembling a bract, hairy on the lower, upper, and edges; outer glume 22-24 mm long, hairy on the upper and edges, inner glume slightly shorter than the outer glume, hairy above the middle; scales lanceolate, about 5 mm long; stamens 4 cm long, anthers about 12 mm long; stigma with 3 feathery styles. The fruit is long elliptical, with the persistent base of the flower style at the tip. The shooting period is in April, and the flowering period is from May to August. Growth environment.

分布自秦岭、汉水流域至长江流域以南和台湾省，黄河流域也有多处栽培。
Distributed from the Qinling Mountains and the Han River basin to the south of the Yangtze River basin and Taiwan Province, it is also cultivated in many areas of the Yellow River basin.