Medicinal values for: indigestion, nausea, wounds, joint pains, weakness. 

Shoot: The young sprouts (karil) of bamboo are taken internally for relief of indigestion and nausea. A paste prepared from the shoots is applied externally as a poultice to help drain infected wounds.

Root: The roots (rehet) are used to treat joint pains and physical weakness, especially weakness resulting from illness.

Culinary uses
Shoots: Before cooking the young shoots are soaked in water (daʔ-re lohotekana) and the water (daʔ) is changed twice to remove (oʧoʔ) the bitterness (agam haɽhat). The young shoots (karil) are dried (tasi) in the sun. With the bamboo shoots (karil), they prepare hãɽua by soaking the dried shoots in mustard oil (sorso sunum) and mustard seeds (sorso dʒaŋ), chilies (marʧej) and garlic (rasun) are added. They mix this hãɽua into fish curry to add flavour to it.

Other uses: The Birhor use bamboo for their domestic purposes, e.g., they make stumps for the spade (koɽi). However, they do not make any items out of it for the generation of income.

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