Mulberry twig is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. Mulberry twig belongs to rheumatism-removing medicine. It is a tender branch of Mulberry belonging to Moraceae. It is harvested in late spring and early summer, defoliated and dried, or sliced and dried while fresh. It is produced all over China. Let me introduce the efficacy and function of mulberry branches to you, hoping to help you.

Efficacy and function of mulberry branches

1. Expelling pathogenic wind and dredging blood collaterals "Stroke" says: "The wind is also a light feeling, a heavy injury, and a heavy one." When common cold is in the meridians, the qi and blood are not well executed, the meridians are dystrophy, and the limbs are cramped; When common cold hits the skin, the qi and blood between the skin are blocked, the veins are not harmonious, and the panel is like a worm and itches. Mulberry branches dispel wind and dredge collaterals, promote qi and blood circulation, moisten limbs and stop itching, and are used for limb contracture and skin wind itching.

2. Dispelling wind and dampness and benefiting joints are used for wind, cold and dampness. The theory of treating arthralgia due to pulse says: "those who are arthralgia are closed." Meridian occlusion, numbness. Or attack for pain, or coagulate joints, or stress is difficult to move, so the name is closed. " The winner of the wind is arthralgia, and the number of wind changes, so the joint pain is always on the upper and lower limbs; The cold is arthralgia, cold stagnation, and qi and blood blockage, so the joint pain is severe and the pain is localized; Dampness is due to arthralgia, wet viscosity and heavy turbidity, and heavy numbness of joints. Mulberry branches are bitter and flat in taste, and they are good at walking around the joints, dispelling wind, drying dampness and dredging collaterals, dispersing the common cold of arthralgia, removing dampness stagnation of arthralgia, dredging blood collaterals of arthralgia, and treating wind, cold and dampness. Therefore, "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "To benefit joints, nourish body fluids, and drain water to dispel wind."

3. It can promote diuresis and eliminate edema, and is used for beriberi and edema. Spleen belongs to soil, likes dryness and hates dampness, and external dampness is due to spleen, or spleen deficiency and cold and dampness are endogenous, all of which can cause spleen to lose health and affect the delivery of body fluids, resulting in edema, and the water is descending, and the lower limbs are swollen, even festering into sores, which is called beriberi edema. Mulberry branches are bitter and flat into the spleen and lungs, and boiling water is the source, which is beneficial to water and swelling. Dry the dampness of spleen and soil, follow it like a branch, remove the dampness of both lower limbs, remove the dampness with water, and the beriberi will heal itself. In the recipe of Shengji Zonglu, mulberry branches are used as a single medicine. After frying, one liter of water is used to decoct the medicine, and it is taken in the air every day to control water and qi beriberi. Very effective.

Taboo of mulberry branches

It is not suitable for people who drink cold and bind their lungs.

Pharmacological effects of mulberry branches

1. Improve lymphocyte transformation rate. Mulberry branches have certain therapeutic effect on patients with low lymphocyte transformation rate. For example, patients with low lymphocyte transformation rate were divided into two groups on average. In addition to the corresponding treatment, each patient was treated with 30 grams of mulberry branches every day in the mulberry branch group, while the control group was not treated with mulberry branches. After one month's treatment, there was no difference between the control group and the control group. However, the mulberry branch group increased significantly.

2. It has certain anti-Brucella effect, and its mechanism is unknown. Treating chronic brucellosis with mulberry decoction, the control observation shows that the treatment group has a certain curative effect.

Processing and processing of mulberry branches

1. When slicing, wash, moisten thoroughly, cut into thick slices, dry in the sun, cut into sections, and then cut into oblique slices.

2. Stir-fry mulberry branches, put them in a pot, stir-fry them with slow fire until they are slightly yellow, take them out and let them cool.

3. Wine making: for every 5,000 grams of clean mulberry twigs, add 930 grams of wine, add a proper amount of water, spray evenly, and fry until the wine is completely absorbed.

4. Bran system First, stir-fry the wheat bran until it smokes, add the mulberry branches and stir-fry until it is light yellow, and sift off the wheat bran.

Compatibility and application of mulberry branches

1. With mulberry leaves, it has the functions of dredging, clearing away heat and expelling wind, relieving exterior syndrome, expelling wind, dredging collaterals and relieving pain. It is mostly used for arthralgia due to wind-cold, damp-heat and so on.

2. Matching with Taxilli, one supplement and one pass, mutually useful, nourishing liver and kidney, strengthening bones and muscles, expelling wind and dampness, dredging collaterals, stopping pain and lowering blood pressure.

3. With cassia twig, it has good effects of warming meridians and dispelling cold, dredging collaterals and relieving pain, and expelling wind and removing arthralgia. It is mostly used for arthralgia due to wind-cold-dampness, and soreness of shoulder and back joints. "Summary of Materia Medica" says: "Mulberry twig, which specializes in removing rheumatism and contracture, has cassia twig to treat shoulder and arm pain."

4. With Tamarix branches, it has strong wind-dispelling ability, good qi-moving and itching-relieving ability, more decoction and bathing, and cures rubella, itching and other symptoms. "Summary of Materia Medica" said: "Li Zhi, I have to wash the branches of Tamarix and itch all over."

Prescription preparation of mulberry branch

1. Prescription for treating arm pain * * * "Skill Prescription" * *: a small liter of mulberry branches, finely cut and sauté ed. Take three liters of water, fry two liters, and take it all in one day.

2. Treating hypertension * * * "Selected Works of Chinese Herbal Medicine New Medical Treatment Exhibition" * * *: Five yuan each for Mulberry Branch, Mulberry Leaf and Fructus Leonuri, add water 1000 ml, and decoct into 600 ml. Wash your feet for 30-40 minutes before going to bed, and then go to bed after washing.

3. Mulberry branch decoction * * * "Shenghui Fang" * * *: Mulberry leaf 10 kg * * * file * * *, motherwort 3 kg * * * file * * *. Apply the medicine, decoct with five buckets of water to five liters with slow fire, filter off the residue, put it in a small pan and boil it into a paste. When lying down every night, treat purpura with warm wine.

4. Water control and gas beriberi * * * "Shengji General Record" * * * Two pieces of mulberry, stir-fried, with one liter of water, fried twice, and served empty every day.