Spring bamboo shoots can nourish yin(an essential concept in the traditional Chinese medicine, an opposite of yang), benefit blood, reduce phlegm, help digestion, promote urine excretion, and improve eyesight. Such foods are sweet, slightly cold, and non-toxic, which could clear away heat and disperse phlegm, benefit Qi and stomach, treat diabetes and are conducive to diaphragm and stomach and so on. And they can be applied to edema, ascites, beriberi, swollen feet, acute nephritis, wheezing, diabetes, thirst and fever, etc.