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What is the function of mulberry root?
Sexual taste

It tastes slightly bitter and cold.

Meridian tropism

Liver meridian.

efficacy

Clearing heat and relieving convulsion, expelling wind and dredging collaterals.

therapy

Used for epilepsy, conjunctival congestion, toothache, and muscle and bone pain.

Correlation compatibility

1, used for rheumatalgia, traumatic injury and hypertension: Mulberry root 15 ~ 30g, and the large dose can reach 60g. Decoct with water. (Common Chinese herbal medicines in Shanghai)

2, cure pink eye:: fresh mulberry root 30g. Wash, decoct in water, or cook pork liver in the morning. ("Minnan Folk Herbs")

3, the treatment of blood dew, endless:: saw mulberry roots, take five fingers crumbs, take alcohol, for three days. ("Elbow Back Therapy")

4, cure pepper, centipede poison:: boil mulberry root juice to solve it. ("Elbow Back Therapy")

5, treatment of epilepsy:: fresh mulberry root 500g. Chop, stew pig's trotters, and take orally 1 day. (Common Chinese Herbal Medicines in Shanghai)

Extended data:

morphological character

Mulberry is also a famous mulberry and mulberry. Deciduous shrubs or small trees, 3- 15 m high. Bark is grayish white with strip-shaped shallow cracks; The root bark is yellow-brown or red-yellow, with strong fiber. Simple leaves alternate; Petiole length l-2.5 cm; Leaf blade is ovoid or broadly ovoid, 5-20cm long and 4 4- 10/0cm wide, with acute or tapering apex, round or nearly heart-shaped base, rough serrations or rounded teeth on the edge, sometimes irregular division, hairless and shiny upper surface, short hairs on lower veins and hairs between leaf axils, with 3 basal veins interwoven with veinlets and obvious back;

Stipules lanceolate, caducous. Flowers are unisexual and dioecious; Female inflorescences and male inflorescences are arranged in spikes, axillary; The female inflorescence is 1-2cm long and hairy, and the total pedicel length is 5-10 mm; Male inflorescence is 1-2.5cm long, pendulous and slightly hairy; The male flower has 4 perianth, 4 stamens and a sterile pistil in the center; Female flowers have perianth segments 4, connate at base, and stigma 2-lobed. Achenes, mostly clustered into oval or rectangular aggregate fruit, are1-2.5cm long, which are green at first, and turn into fleshy, dark purple or red when they mature. The seeds are very small. The flowering period is April-May and the fruiting period is May-June.

References:

Sanggen _ Baidu encyclopedia