Phellinus mulberry, the name of Chinese medicine. It is the fruiting body of the Polyporaceae fungus Xylella oxysporum. Distributed in North China, Northwest China, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Taiwan, Guangdong, Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet and other places. It has the effects of activating blood circulation, stopping bleeding, transforming fluids, and stopping diarrhea. It is often used for bleeding metrorrhagia, bloody stranguria, prolapse and diarrhea, vaginal discharge, amenorrhea, mass accumulation, excessive drinking, and diarrhea due to spleen deficiency.

The cap is woody, flat hemispherical or horseshoe-shaped, (2-12)cm×(3-21)cm, 1.5-10cm thick, light liver brown to dark gray or black, often cracked when old. There is no skin shell, and there are fine hairs in the early stage, which later become hairless and have concentric rings; the edge is blunt, light brown, and there is no fruiting body on the lower side; the fungus flesh is dark brown.

Wood; the bacterial tubes are multi-layered and the layers are not obvious. The old bacterial tube layer is filled with white hyphae; the mouth of the tube is brown; the spores are nearly spherical, smooth, (5-6)cm×(4-5 )μm; hyphae are unbranched, have no transverse septa, and have a diameter of 3-5μm.

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Pharmacological effects

1. Inhibition of sweat gland secretion;

2. Digitalis-like effect; low concentration It can excite smooth muscles, but inhibits it in large doses;

3. Toxic doses can cause first excitement and then paralysis of the cerebrovascular motor center and respiratory center;

4. Anti-tumor effect, Anti-cancer effect, anti-fibrosis effect, antioxidant effect, analgesic effect;

5. Antibacterial effect;

6. Immunomodulatory effect.

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