Thursday 28 April 2022Bamboo is a type of plant that grows quite a lot in various countries, including in Indonesia. Bamboo is also found in many countries in the world, especially in tropical areas such as on the continents of Asia, Africa, America and even Australia. Bamboo itself is very familiar in the life of the Indonesian people, especially in rural areas or hamlets who are accustomed to using the necessities of life that are already available, such as bamboo which is used for building materials, poles, walls, roofs, kitchen utensils, musical instruments to be used as food ingredients.
In the world, bamboo trees have 75 genera (red-marga or classification groups) consisting of 1500 types of bamboo, and 125 species of which are found in Indonesia and grow with various types of climate, such as rainfall types A, B, C, D to E. classification or wet to dry climate, and usually the wetter the climate type, the more the number of types of bamboo, because bamboo is a type of plant that requires a lot of water.
Some of the benefits of bamboo trees
As a plant that has many benefits and is important for life, such as the roots of bamboo plants can function as a barrier to erosion to prevent the danger of flooding, to play a role in dealing with toxic waste due to mercury poisoning, this part of the roots filters water exposed to waste through root fibers, and is able to accommodate springs so that it is useful as a well water supply.
Bamboo stems, both old and young, are very useful for various purposes, whether they are used for traditional purposes such as building houses, ranging from roofs, walls, kitchen utensils to traditional musical instruments, as well as being used as modern raw materials for both construction and non-construction. we can see for ourselves the results of minimalist furniture products made of bamboo and sold in the market.
Bamboo leaves also have benefits such as being used as a food wrapping tool, and even used as traditional medicine to reduce fever in children, because bamboo has a cooling substance. Likewise, bamboo shoots or bamboo shoots or also known as trubus bamboo are young bamboo buds that grow from the ground, these shoots come from rhizontal roots or their books, usually bamboo shoots are consumed when the bamboo buds are 1-5 months old.
This means that bamboo trees have ecological and industrial benefits, ecologically bamboo plants have functions such as increasing the volume of underground water, land conservation, environmental improvement and the properties of bamboo as earthquake-resistant building materials, especially earthquake-prone areas, and industrially bamboo plants have widely used as raw materials, both traditional and modern, this raw material is a product or uniform source of industrial raw materials, considering the potential for wood to be increasingly scarce, and this requires a long time to rehabilitate, while bamboo in general only takes 4-5 years. can be reprocessed.
Bamboo shoots in a fermented state are a key ingredient in many Himalayan cuisines. In India it is called Khorisa. In Nepal, bamboo shoots are fermented with turmeric and vegetable oil, then cooked with potatoes into a dish that is eaten with rice. Whereas in Indonesia itself, bamboo shoots are cut into thin strips and boiled with coconut milk and spices to make bamboo shoot curry.
The inside of an old bamboo stalk is commonly used as a cooking utensil in many Asian cultures. Soup and rice cooked in bamboo sticks are dried over a fire until cooked. Cooking on bamboo sticks is believed to produce a different taste.
Bamboo Charcoal here is able to absorb odors and emit infrared rays, all of which are benefits that are not found in other types of charcoal. It may also seem to be extraordinary that apart from being used for decoration, Bamboo Charcoal can also be consumed. Where it is known that bamboo charcoal is very positive for human health directly, related to the far infrared rays emitted can help improve blood circulation, thereby reducing muscle pain, hemorrhoids, burns and wounds.
Those are some of the benefits of bamboo trees which turns out to be a lot of benefits of bamboo trees for human life. For those of you who have a fairly large yard, there is nothing wrong if you cultivate your own bamboo tree at home.
Besides being able to be used for consumption and craft materials, bamboo can also be used to beautify your front yard.
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growing up we are uses to seeing bomboo as something having no much of use although our grandparents used them as reinforcing materials for mod-house story building. It is amazing to see structure help up high not reinforced by still but by bamboo. Good to see it use more frequently now in modern construction. The benefits of bamboo are just enormous.