Mulberry, what is it?

Mulberry (Mulberry) Pinyin name: Sangshen Mulberry - original plant

Spoken: Sangrener English name: FRUCTUS MORI This product is the dried fruit ear of the moraceae plant Morus alba L. Harvest when the fruits turn red from April to June and sun-dry them, or steam them briefly and then sun-dry them. Properties: This product is a flower-containing fruit, which is composed of many small drupes. It is oblong in shape, 1 to 2 cm long, and 0.5 to 0.8 cm in diameter. Yellow-brown, brown-red to dark purple, (rare colors turn milky white when mature), with short inflorescence stems. The small drupe is oval, slightly flat, about 2mm long and 1mm wide, with 4 fleshy tepals on the outside. The smell is slight and the taste is slightly sour and sweet. Original form of deciduous shrub or small tree, 3-15m high. The bark is gray-white, with strips and shallow cracks; the root bark is yellow-brown or red-yellow, and is highly fibrous. Single leaves are alternate; petioles are 1 to 2.5cm long; leaves are ovate or broadly ovate, 5 to 20cm long and 4 to 10cm wide, with sharp or acuminate apex, round or nearly heart-shaped base, and coarsely serrated or rounded edges. Teeth, sometimes with irregular divisions, glabrous and shiny above, short hairs on the veins below, hairs between the axillaries, 3 veins at the base intertwined with fine veins to form a network, more obvious on the back; stipules are lanceolate. , early fall. Flowers are unisexual, dioecious; both male and female inflorescences are arranged in spike-like catkins, axillary; female inflorescences are 1 to 2 cm long, hairy, and the total pedicel is 5 to 10 mm long; male inflorescences are 1 to 2.5 cm long, pendulous, Slightly hairy; male flowers have 4 tepals, 4 stamens, and a sterile pistil in the center; female flowers have 4 tepals, connate at the base, and 2-lobed stigma. Drupes, most of which are densely packed into an oval or oblong flower fruit, are 1 to 2.5cm long. They are green at first and become fleshy, black-purple or red when mature. The seeds are small. The flowering period is from April to May, and the fruiting period is from May to June. Habitat distribution Ecological environment: Grows in hills, hillsides, beside villages, fields, etc., mostly under artificial cultivation. Resource distribution: distributed throughout the country. The leachate shall be determined according to the hot soak method (Appendix Nature, flavor and meridians: sweet, sour, cold. Guixin, liver, kidney meridians. Functions and Indications: Nourish blood and nourish yin, produce body fluid and moisturize dryness. It is used for dizziness, tinnitus, palpitations, insomnia, premature graying of beard and hair, thirst for fluids and wounds, internal heat to quench thirst, and blood deficiency and constipation. Nourishes the liver, nourishes the kidneys, extinguishes wind and nourishes liquid. Treat liver and kidney yin deficiency, thirst, constipation, dark eyes, tinnitus, scrofula, and joint problems. ① "Tang Materia Medica": Eat alone, it mainly quenches thirst. ② "Supplements of Materia Medica": To benefit the five internal organs and joints, unblock blood and Qi, pound into powder, mix with honey and make pills. ③ "Compendium of Materia Medica": Treats heat, thirst, energy, and small intestinal heat. ④ "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": Benefits the kidneys and consolidates essence. Long-term use can blacken the eyes. ⑤ "Compendium": Make the juice and drink it to relieve hangover poisoning. Take it with wine to relieve water vapor and reduce swelling. ⑥ "Jade Catalpa Medicinal Solution": Treats stranguria, scrofula, and bald sores. ⑦ "Materia Medica Seeking Truth": Removes heat, nourishes yin, and stops diarrhea. ⑧ "Suixiju Diet Spectrum": Nourishes the liver and kidneys, replenishes blood, dispels rheumatism, strengthens walking, calms deficient wind, and clears deficient fire. ⑨ "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": cooling and relieving cough. ⑩ "Empirical Method for Identification of Forms and Properties of Traditional Chinese Medicine": Pregnancy relief. Usage and dosage: 9~15g. Rural mulberries

Storage Store in a ventilated and dry place to prevent moth. Note: People with spleen and stomach deficiency and loose stools should not take this product. 1． "Yang's Milk Production": Mortal children are not allowed to eat mulberry seeds, which makes children feel chilled. 2. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Do not take it if the spleen and stomach are deficient and cold and cause diarrhea. 3. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Eating too much can cause bleeding, so pregnant women should avoid it.

Excerpt from the 2005 edition of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia "Chinese Pharmacopoeia" Chemical composition The fruit contains sugar, tannic acid, malic acid, vitamin B1.B2 and carotene; the fatty acids of its lipids are mainly Linoleic acid, oleic acid, palmitic acid, stearic acid, and a small amount of caprylic acid, pelargonic acid, capric acid ( capric acid), myristic acid (myris-tic acid), linolenic acid (linolenic acid), etc. Essential oils contain cineole, geraniol, linalyl acetat, linalool, camphor, α-pinene and Limonene, etc.; total phospholipid content is 0.41, including phosphatidyl choline 32.15, lysophosphatidy choline 19.30, phosphatidyl ethanolamine 15.91, phosphatidic acid 12.40, Phosphatidyl inositol (phosphatidyl inosi-tol) 10.53, diphosphatidyl glycerol (diphosphatidyl glycerol) 6.59. Also contains cyanidin and chrysanthemin.

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Chemical composition 1. Add 3g of coarse powder of this product to 20ml of ethanol, heat it on a water bath for 10 minutes, filter, and do the following test on the filtrate: ① Take 10ml of the above filtrate, add a little magnesium powder and mix well, add a few drops of hydrochloric acid, heat it slightly, and the test solution will appear cherry. red. (Check flavonoids) ② Take the above filtrate, point it on the filter paper, observe it under an ultraviolet lamp (254nm), and it will show blue fluorescence. After adding aluminum tricyanide test solution dropwise, it will show bright yellow-green fluorescence. (Check flavonoids) 2. Thin layer chromatography: Take 2g of the coarse powder of this product, add 10ml of petroleum ether, reflux for 10min, filter, concentrate the filtrate to 1ml, and spot mulberry

3μl, use linoleic acid as a control, and spot respectively. On the same silica gel thin layer plate, spread it with benzene-ethyl acetate (80:20), spray 0.1α-nitroso-β-tetraphenol sulfuric acid test solution, and heat to develop color. The corresponding positions of the chromatogram of the sample solution and the chromatogram of the reference solution show spots of the same color. Pharmacological effects 1. Enhance immune function. α-Naphthyl acetate esterase (ANAE)-positive T lymphocytes and spleen B lymphocytes (the number of hemolytic plaque-forming cells) in mice gradually decrease with age. Giving LACA mice 12.5g (crude drug)/kg of mulberry decoction daily for 10 consecutive days can significantly increase the T lymphocytes of mice in different age groups; however, the same dose of mulberry decoction can only increase the number of T lymphocytes in young children. The number of mouse B lymphocytes has no significant effect on mice aged more than 1 year. ． The application of 3H-TdR incorporation into lymphocyte transformation test showed that mulberry decoction can moderately stimulate lymphocyte transformation. 2． Effect on Na and K-ATPase activity: BALb/c and LAC pure strain mice aged 3 to 24 months were given mulberry decoction 12.5g/kg daily for 2 weeks. Except for 24-month-old mice, compared with the control group of the same age, the Na and K-ATPase activities of red blood cell membranes were significantly reduced. Na and K-ATPase are related to the release of energy by the body and the active transport of Na and K. The reduction of the activity of this enzyme by mulberry may be one of its mechanisms of nourishing yin.

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1. Medical theory: Mulberry seed is a medicine that cools and nourishes blood and nourishes yin.

There is also a valuable memory in this. Teacher Lu once treated a patient with nosebleeds that lasted for a hundred days and all methods were ineffective. Later, I asked Mr. Kong Lao for a diagnosis and he was cured by just using mulberry white bark alone. Later, in clinical practice, for patients with epistaxis due to lung heat and qi reversal, 20 grams of mulberry bark bark alone was often used, and achieved good results. Mulberry white bark can also cure hair loss. "Sheng Hui Fang" records: To treat hair loss on the temples, file three liters of mulberry white bark, soak it in water, boil it for five or six times, remove the residue, wash and bathe frequently, and it will not fall off. If your hair is dry, use one pound each of mulberry bark and cypress leaves and boil water to wash your hair to make your hair moist. Modern pharmacological research also shows that mulberries entering the stomach can supplement the lack of gastric juice and promote the digestion of gastric juice. Entering the intestines can stimulate the gastric mucosa, promote the secretion of intestinal juice, and enhance gastrointestinal motility, so it has the effect of tonic and strengthening.