Same as Chinese prickly ash, but the peel has a stronger numbing smell and the aroma is slightly worse. Fruit (Bamboo Leaf Pepper): pungent, warm. Warm and relieve pain, kill insects and relieve itching. It is used for cold and painful abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal pain due to worm infestation, ascariasis, and eczema and itching.
It is cultivated in some areas of China. The whole plant has the smell of Chinese prickly ash, numbing the tongue, and the bitter and spicy taste is stronger than that of Chinese prickly ash. The peel has the strongest spicy taste. New shoots are purple-red. The root is strong, the outer skin is rough, with a muddy yellow soft cork layer, and the inner skin is sulfur yellow, very spicy.
The fruit is also used as a food seasoning and preservative. It is purchased as a pepper substitute in Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Hunan, and Guangxi.
The roots, stems, leaves, fruits and seeds are used as medicinal herbs. Dispelling wind and cold, promoting qi and relieving pain. Treat rheumatoid arthritis, toothache, swelling and pain from bruises. It is also used as an insect repellent and an anthelmintic.
Among the cultural relics unearthed from the ancient tomb of Ruanhou of the Western Han Dynasty (477 BC - 177 BC) at Mawangdui, a suburb of Changsha, Hunan Province, there are four embroidered sachets containing fruits, seeds, fruit stems and prick. The silk bag held in the hands of the deceased contained the bark (cassia bark) and underground stems (Shanghai Alpinia) of various aromatic plants, including the fruits of this plant.
In addition to being used as food seasoning and medicinal purposes, the fruit of this species is also an aromatic preservative. In ancient times, there are records of the use of Zanthoxylum bungeanum to prevent corrosion. The bamboo-leaf Zanthoxylum bungeanum unearthed from the ancient tombs of the Western Han Dynasty at Ma Tudui probably took advantage of this characteristic. There are also large amounts of Zanthoxylum bungeanum in some other ancient tombs that have been excavated as evidence (refer to the discussion of Zanthoxylum bungeanum), indicating that the Chinese people used bamboo leaf Zanthoxylum bungeanum at least 2100 years ago.
Lisu medicine thief: The fruit can cure stomach cold, acid swallowing, roundworm abdominal pain, wind-fire toothache, and eczema "Nujiang Medicine".
Dai medicine Gega (Western Dai): roots and fruits treat stomach and abdominal cold pain, intestinal dysfunction, ascariasis abdominal pain, colds and headaches, wind-cold asthma and cough, rheumatoid arthritis, and poisonous snake bites; leaves Treat cold pain and cough in confidants; externally used for eczema and itching "Annals of Yunnan Province". Ge Maga: The fruit is used to dispel cold, relieve pain, and remove roundworms "Dai Medicine". Gegan (Western Dai): roots and leaves treat cold and pain in the heart and stomach, relieve cough, and rash and itching. "Dian Medicine Record", "Banna Dai Medicine", "Dai Medicine Record".
Tibetan medicine Yerma: The peel can treat stomach diseases, insect diseases, alcoholism, and external treatment of skin diseases. "Chinese Tibetan Medicine". The functions of fruits and stem bark are the same as those of Zanthoxylum bungeanum. Yerma: The fruit is used to kill insects "Qinghai-Tibet Medicine Book".
Banna Hani Medicine: Roots and leaves treat stomach pain and rheumatoid arthritis "Banna Hani Medicine".
Yi medicine Wild Zanthoxylum bungeanum: The root function is the same as Zanthoxylum bungeanum "Ailao".
Tujia Medicine Wanhua Zhen (wau hua zhen): The whole plant is mainly used to treat abdominal cold pain, vomiting and diarrhea, cough with excessive phlegm, and Sha syndrome "Tujia Medicine".
Jinuo Medicine: Cure irregular menstruation, cold and painful stomach and abdominal pain, colds and headaches, rheumatism, waist and leg pain "Jinuo Medicine".
She medicinal fruit husks treat colds, indigestion and abdominal distension.