Taste

Slightly bitter in flavor and cold in nature.

Attributes to the liver meridian.

Effects

Clearing away heat and calming alarm, dispelling wind and clearing channels.

Addresses

It is used in treating epilepsy, redness of the eyes, toothache, and pain in the tendons and bones.

Related Compounds

1, the treatment of rheumatic pain, bruises, high blood pressure: mulberry tree root 15 ~ 30g, . The large dose can be up to 60g, water decoction. ("Shanghai commonly used Chinese herbs")

2, the treatment of red eyes:: fresh mulberry root 30g. Wash, water appropriate amount of decoction, or boiled pig's liver in the morning service. ("Minnan folk herbal medicine")

3, the treatment of blood dew is not extinct:: saw cut mulberry root crumbs five fingers pinch, take alcohol wine service, day three. ("After the elbow prescription therapy")

4, the treatment of Sichuan pepper, centipede poison:: boil mulberry root juice to solve. ("After elbow prescription therapy")

5, the treatment of epilepsy:: 500g of fresh mulberry root. chopped, with pig feet stewed, in 1 day to finish. (Shanghai Commonly Used Chinese Herbs)

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Morphological Characteristics

The mulberry is also known as mulberry, mulberry tree. Deciduous shrubs or small trees, 3-15 m high, the bark is gray-white, striped and lobed; the root bark is yellow-brown or reddish-yellow, fibrous. Simple leaves alternate; petiole l-2.5cm long; leaf blade ovate or broadly ovate, 5-20cm long, 4-10cm wide, apex acute or acuminate, base rounded or subcordate, margin coarsely serrate or crenate, sometimes irregularly divided, glabrous and glossy above, short hairs on veins below, hairs in the inter-axillary region, basal veins 3 intertwined with fine veins into a reticulated pattern, more conspicuous abaxially;

Thallophylls Lanceolate, caducous. Flowers unisexual, dioecious; female and male inflorescences both arranged in spikelike catkins, axillary; female inflorescences l-2cm long, hairy, total pedicel 5-10mm long; male inflorescences 1-2.5cm long, pendulous, slightly covered with fine hairs; male flowers with 4 tepals and 4 stamens, with sterile pistil in the center; female flowers with 4 tepals, united at the base, stigmas 2-lobed. Achenes, mostly crowded into an ovoid or oblong aggregate, l-2.5 cm long, green at first, becoming fleshy, black-purple or red at maturity. Seeds small. Flowering April-May, fruiting May-June.

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