Alias: Sang Tiao
Harvesting and processing: Harvesting in late spring and early summer, removing leaves, slightly sun drying, cutting into 30-60cm long segments or oblique slices while fresh, and sun drying.
Medicinal parts: tender branches
Origin: National
Subject: Sangke
Original plant: Mulberry
Characteristics of Mulberry Branch Medicinal Materials: The tender branches are cylindrical in shape with few branches, varying in length and diameter from 0.5 to 1.5 cm. The surface is gray yellow or yellow brown, with many yellow brown dotted pores and fine longitudinal lines, and there are slightly semi-circular leaf scars and yellow brown axillary buds in gray white color. Durable and not easily broken; Sectional fibrosis. The slice thickness is 0.2-0.5cm, the skin is relatively thin, the wood is yellow white, radiating, and the pulp is white or yellow white. The air is faint and the taste is light.
High quality products with tender texture and yellow white cross-section are preferred.
Mulberry branch medicinal properties:
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① Treating arm pain: A small increase in mulberry branches. Cut finely, stir fry until fragrant, add three liters of water, fry for two liters, take all in one day, no time. (From 'The Skill')
② Treating water vapor and athlete's foot: Two liang of mulberry strips. Stir fry until fragrant, add one liter of water, fry twice, and take it hollow daily. (St. Francis of Assisi)
③ Treatment of hypertension: Five cents each for mulberry branches, mulberry leaves, and wuweizi. Add 1000 milliliters of water and fry to 600 milliliters. Wash your feet for 30-40 minutes before bedtime, and feel refreshed after washing your eyelashes. (Selected Materials from Liaoning Jianzhong Herbal New Medical Therapy Exhibition "Shuangsang Jiangya Tang")
④ Treating purple carbuncle wind: Ten pounds of mulberry grass and three pounds of motherwort. Apply medicine, stir fry with five dou of water over low heat until it reaches five liters, filter out the residue, put it in a small bowl, and simmer until it becomes a paste. Every night when sleeping, mix half a table with warm wine. (Ming Sheng Hui Fang "Sang Zhi Jian)
【 Discussions from Various Schools 】 "Compendium of Materia Medica": Mulberry branches are specialized in removing rheumatism and spasms, while cassia branches are used to treat shoulder and arm pain; Wash the locust branches, willow branches, and peach branches all over your body and feel itchy. "
【 Processing 】 Mulberry branches: For those that have not been sliced, wash them thoroughly, moisten them thoroughly, cut them into thick slices, and dry them in the sun.
Stir fry mulberry branches: Take slices of mulberry branches and stir fry them according to the clear frying method (Appendix II D) until they turn slightly yellow.
[Taste] Slightly bitter, flat.
Return to the liver meridian.
【 Indications and Functions 】 Dispelling wind and dampness, promoting joint health. Used for shoulder, arm, and joint pain and numbness.
【 Usage and Dosage 】 9-15g.
[Storage] Store in a dry place.
[Note]
Used for rheumatoid arthritis and pain, often used in combination with Fangji, Weilingxian, Qianghuo, Duhuo, etc; This product is good for walking the upper limbs, especially for treating shoulder and back pain
Pain and unfavorable meridians are commonly used, and can be taken by boiling ointment in units or in combination with wind and dampness dispelling drugs. "