1. Alias
Mulberry root bark, mulberry root bark, mulberry bark, white mulberry bark.2. Plant morphology
Deciduous trees. The bark is gray brown with light longitudinal cracks. Young branches are smooth or hairy. Single leaf, alternate, ovate or broadly ovate, 6-15 cm long, 5-13 cm wide, apex acute or blunt, base nearly heart-shaped, leaf margin serrated, sometimes irregularly divided, upper nearly smooth, lower veins sparsely hairy, vein axils clustered hairy, petiole 1.5-3.5 cm long, soft hairy, bracts lanceolate, early abscission. Both female and male flowers form tender inflorescences, with flowers being unisexual and dioecious. The male inflorescence is 1-2.5 centimeters long, and the female inflorescence is 0.5-1.2 centimeters long. Male flowers have 4 carpel segments, with the same number of stamens and opposite carpel segments, and a sterile pistil in the center. The pistil is covered with 4 petals, fleshy during fruiting, often without a style, with a 2-lobed stigma, and persistent. Jujube (mulberry), 1-2.5 cm long, black purple or white when ripe. The flowering period is in May and the fruiting period is in June.
3. Origin distribution
Mostly cultivated near villages and fields. Distributed in various provinces across the country.
4. Harvesting and processing
At the end of autumn, before the leaves fall and sprout in the following spring, dig out the roots, scrape off the yellow brown rough skin, longitudinally cut open, peel off the root skin, and dry it in the sun.
5. Characteristics of medicinal herbs
Twisted in the form of rolls, grooves, or plates, with varying lengths, widths, and thicknesses ranging from 1 to 4 millimeters. The outer surface is white or light yellow white, relatively flat, with some residual orange yellow or brownish yellow scaly rough skin; The inner surface is yellow white or grayish yellow with fine longitudinal lines. Lightweight, tough, strong fibrous, difficult to break, prone to longitudinal tearing, with dust flying during tearing. The air is faint and the taste is slightly sweet.
6. Sexual Taste Returning to the Classics
Cold in nature, sweet in taste. Return to the lung meridian.
7. Effect and Function
Purging the lungs and relieving asthma, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. Belonging to the subcategory of diuretics and diuretics, it is a diuretic and anti-inflammatory drug.
8. Clinical application
Dosage: 6-12 grams, decoct in water and take orally, or add into pill powder. Used to treat lung heat, wheezing, cough, edema, fullness, and oliguria, as well as facial and skin swelling.
9. Pharmacological research
Has diuretic effect; Lowering blood pressure can inhibit the contraction force and frequency of isolated frog heart muscles. Exciting smooth muscles has an inhibitory effect on the nervous system and has a certain antibacterial effect.
10. Chemical composition
It mainly contains flavonoids, mulberry furan, umbelliferone, scopolamine, cyclosporine, cyclosporine, sesquiterpene, sesquiterpene, mulberry flavonoids, sesquiterpene, sesquiterpene, mulberry extract and other components.
11. Usage taboos
Do not take medication for lung cold without fire and wind cold cough.
12. Compatibility prescription
① For those who treat stone abscesses that are as hard as stones and do not produce pus: mulberry roots with white skin, dry in the shade, grind to powder, apply glue, and apply alcohol and compress the swelling. (From "Qian Jin Yao Fang")
② Treating centipede and spider venom: apply mulberry white skin pounded juice for immediate effect. (Hygiene Easy Recipe)
③ For those with severe cough or vomiting blood, add 1 pound of mulberry root white skin (soaked in rice swill for three nights, scraped with yellow skin, filed fine) and 120 grams of glutinous rice (roasted). One place is crushed to the end. Mix 30 grams per serving of rice drink. (Experience Formula)
④ To treat extreme deficiency of blood vessels and prevent hair from being moisturized: 1 pound of mulberry roots and white skin (file), and an appropriate amount of cypress leaves. Soak in three buckets of water and boil for five or six times. Rub your head, count it, and your hair will become moist. (Holy Blessing Formula)
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