Mulberry (Morus alba L.) is a deciduous tree of the Moraceae family. It is cultivated throughout the country, especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and has a long history. Harvest after frost between October and November, remove impurities and dry in the sun. The leaves, fruits, wood, branches, etc. of the mulberry tree can be used to feed silkworms, eat, make wine, make baskets, make paper and make various utensils. At the same time, its leaves, roots, root bark, twigs, ears, wood, Chinese Taxillus Herb It is also a good medicine to prevent and treat diseases.

Winter Mulberry Leaf is also known as mulberry leaf, late Mulberry Leaf, and old Mulberry Leaf. Mulberry Leaf is harvested from late autumn to early winter after frost. The ones with large, fat leaves and yellow-orange color are the best. Fry Mulberry Leaf: Fry Mulberry Leaf over mild fire until dark brown, take it out and let it dry for medicinal use. Zhi Mulberry Leaf is also known as honey Mulberry Leaf. For those who burn Mulberry Leaf with honey and then use it as medicine.

bitter and sweet, cold.

• Rihuazi Bencao: "Warm, nontoxic."
• Gangmu: "Bitter and sweet, cold, slightly toxic."
• Yilin Zuanyao Tanyuan: "sweet, sour and acrid, cold. act on lung and liver channels."
• Gangmu: "act on hand/foot yangming i> channels. "
• Bencao Jing Jie: "act on foot taiyang bladder, hand shaoyin heart and foot taiyin spleen channels. "
• Bencao Zaixin: "act on liver and lung channels."

[Efficacy]

Mulberry leaf has a bitter-sweet and cold nature and taste. It enters the lung and liver meridian and has the functions of dispersing wind and clearing heat, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, clearing heat and improving vision, moistening lung and relieving cough.

1. It is used for common cold, headache and cough caused by wind-heat. This product is sweet and cold in texture, light and clear, and is good at cooling and dissipating wind-heat. It can also clear the lung and stop coughing. Therefore, it is often used for common cold, or for the initial onset of warm disease, when warm evil invades the lungs, such as fever, headache, and cough. For the same disease, it is often used with Chrysanthemum Flower, Forsythia, Bitter Apricot Seed, such as Mulberry Leaf and Chrysanthemum Decoction .
2. Used for lung heat and dry cough. This product is bitter and cold, clearing lung heat, sweet and cold, replenishing yin, cooling and moisturizing lung dryness, so it can be used for dryness-heat damaging lung, dry cough and less phlegm. For mild cases, it can be used with Bitter Apricot Seed and Coastal Glehnia Root and Fritillaria Bulb can be used, such as Mulberry Leaf and Apricot Kernel Decoction; in severe cases, Gypsum can be used , Ophiopogon Tuber, Donkey-hide Gelatin and the like, such as Dryness-Clearing Lung-Rescuing Decoction.
3. For liver yang vertigo, red eye dizziness. This product is bitter and cold, enters the liver meridian, and has the effect of reducing liver yang. Therefore, it can be used to treat ascendant hyperactivity of liver yang and headache vertigo. It is often used with Chrysanthemum Flower, Abalone Shell and Peony Root are equivalent; this product can not only release exterior with pungent-cool, but also clear liver fire, benefit yin, cool blood and improve vision. , so it is combined with Chrysanthemum Flower, Prunella, Plantain Seed and other clearing heat and improving vision products, which can be used to treat liver meridian wind-heat, liver fire attack causes excess syndrome/pattern such as red eye, aching pain, excessive tears, etc.; used together with black sesame which nourishes essence and blood, that is, Mulberry and Sesame Pill can also be used to treat liver and kidney deficiency, blurred vision and flower deficiency syndrome/pattern.
4. Pick the fresh Mulberry Leaf and extract the white juice that exudes from the leaf veins. It is called Mulberry Leaf juice. It tastes bitter and slightly cold. It is good at removing toxin, clearing heat and stopping bleeding. It is mainly used to treat carbuncles, galls, and traumatic bleeding. and centipede bites, etc. Mulberry Leaf distillate is also used to treat eye problems.
5. In addition, this product is sweet and cold, and can cool blood and stop bleeding. It can also be used to treat Blood-heat disorder, hematemesis, and epistaxis. It can be used alone or combined with other hemostatic medicinal Same use.
6. Modern times, it is also used to treat elephant hide swelling in the lower limbs.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "Removes sweating heat and sweats."
2. Bencao Shiyi: "Mulberry Leaf is the most famous chicken mulberry, the most suitable for use. "
3. Bencao Yanyi: "It clears the lungs and relieves the stomach, cools blood drying dampness, and removes wind and improves vision."
4. Bencao Tujing: "Mulberry Leaf can be taken regularly. Collect the leaves in April when the mulberry trees are in full bloom; and after the frost in October, when the third and second parts have fallen, one part is called the fairy leaf. Take it from the tear mouth and dry it in the same shade as the front leaves. Pound into powder, take it as pills, or decoct it. It can be used instead of tea to make people smart. It can also be used to boil the leaves to make them slightly dry, and to decoct them with mulberry clothes to treat dysentery. It is also used to treat incised wounds and stop bleeding. "
5. Bencao Gangmu: "Mulberry. There are several types, including white mulberry, with leaves as big as a palm and thick; chicken mulberry, with flowers and thin leaves; mulberry with sticks first and leaves later; and mountain mulberry, with long pointed leaves, rather than those grown in strips. "Yellow clothes are called golden mulberry, and the wood will be destroyed." "Cure fatigue and fever, improve vision and long hair."
6. "Baicao Mirror": "Mulberry Leaf, do not use if you have picked two mulberries. Stop picking." When the first leaf is passed through, the two leaves are still strong. After the Great Snow (21st solar term), they are still green on the campus, or yellow and orange on the campus. They can be used. They must be crushed by the Great Snow (21st solar term). Pick them in the snow the next day. The thread is hung in the shade to dry, its color is mostly green and black, and the wind makes the sound of iron, so it is called iron fan. The Winter Solstice (22nd solar term) is good for those who pick it later."

[Usage and Dosage]

5~10 grams. Decoction or take as a pill. Use decoction to wash eyes externally. Mulberry Leaf honey can enhance the effect of moistening lung and relieving cough, so honey is often used for dryness and cough.

[Processing and Storage]

1. Mulberry Leaf: Remove impurities, grind into pieces, remove stems, and sift away debris.
2. Honey Mulberry Leaf: Take the pureed Mulberry Leaf honey and a little boiling water, mix well, let it simmer for a while, put it in a pot and fry it over mild fire until it is no longer sticky to your hands, take it out and let it cool. For each 100 kilograms of Mulberry Leaf, use 20 to 25 kilograms of cooked honey.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains cortisol, beautiful steetgum resin glycosides, morusin, rhesin, isoresin, scopolanoside, etc. Fresh Mulberry Leaf decoction has been shown to inhibit Staphylococcus aureus, beta-hemolytic Streptococcus and other pathogenic bacteria in in vitro tests, and decoction has the effect of inhibiting Leptospira.

[Supplementary Medication]

Mulberry twig: The twigs of the mulberry tree, harvested in late spring and early summer. Its nature and taste are bitter and flat, and it enters the liver meridian. It is good at dispelling wind and dampness, dredging the meridians, sharpening the joints, and moving water and qi. It is mostly used to treat wind-dampness numbness, limb spasm, edema, generalized itching and other syndromes, and is especially good at treating upper limb impediment pain. It can be decoctioned or ointment taken internally, or decoctioned in water and washed externally. In addition, after burning the branches of the mulberry tree, the sap can be drained, which is called mulberry juice. Books such as Bencao Gangmu record that it can treat "wind sores", tetanus, and children's body and face ulcers.

Mulberry wood: The wood of the mulberry tree has three medicinal uses. One is the ash produced by burning the wood, called mulberry wood ash, which can treat edema, incised wound bleeding, red eye swelling and pain, etc. The second is to add water to mulberry firewood ash to make juice. After filtering and evaporating, the crystalline substance obtained is called mulberry cream, which can treat food accumulation, boil and sore poisoning. The third is the nodules on the wood of old mulberry trees, which are called mulberry galls. The ancients believed that they can dispelling wind, dehumidifying, and curing wind-dampness, crane knee phlegm, etc. Nowadays, mulberry wood has been used clinically.

White Mulberry Root-Bark: Dig mulberry roots in winter and remove the cork for medicinal purposes. Sweet and cold in nature, it enters the lung and spleen meridian and has the effect of purging the lung and relieving panting, promoting water and reducing swelling. It is often used to treat lung heat, cough, phlegm, edema, athlete's foot, difficulty urinating and other symptoms. Add more decoction and powder, or make juice or decoct for external use. The mulberry root can also be used as medicine when used with the skin. Books state that it has a slightly bitter taste and is mild in nature, and can treat fright epilepsy, muscle pain, high blood pressure, red eye, thrush, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis.

Mulberry fruit: The fruit of the mulberry tree, harvested in summer. Sweet and cold in nature, it returns to the heart, liver and kidney meridian, and has the functions of nourishing the liver and kidneys, enriching yin and replenishing blood, producing body fluids and moistening the intestines, and extinguishing wind. It is often used to treat yin deficiency, blood deficiency, vertigo, dark eyes, tinnitus, insomnia, premature hair and hair, common bletilla tuber, body injury, thirst, intestinal dryness, constipation, etc. It can be used for decoction, paste, raw food, soaking in wine, and external washing.

jew's ear on mulberry tree: Chinese Taxillus Herb Chinese Taxillus Herb Chinese Taxillus Herb The edible tree fungus on the mulberry tree. Ancient medicine books call it jew's ear on mulberry tree. It has a sweet and mild taste and can treat bloody defecation, hemorrhoids, and epistaxis. And women's metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, leukorrhea, cardiac abdominal pain, etc. In addition, the Chinese Taxillus Herb commonly used in clinical practice is the branches and leaves of various plants of the Chinese Taxillus Herb family. However, the ancients believed that the Chinese Taxillus Herb is better from the mulberry tree. Its nature and taste are bitter and flat, and enters the liver and kidney meridian. It is good at dispelling wind and dampness and nourishing the liver and kidneys. , strengthen muscles and bones, nourishing blood to calm fetus. It is used to treat wind-dampness paralysis, waist and knee pain, women's metrorrhagia and metrostasis leukorrhea, and threatened abortion.