Mulberry branch value, efficacy and application

Mulberry branch is the tender branch of mulberry tree, which is a deciduous tree of mulberry family. It can be used to make soup, soak in water and be compatible with other important traditional Chinese medicine after slicing the tender branch of mulberry tree. Mulberry branches are mainly used to treat rheumatism, arthritis, edema, itching and other diseases.

Nutritional value of mulberry tcm

Mulberry branches contain tannin, free sucrose, fructose, stachyose, glucose, maltose, raffinose, arabinose and xylose. The stems contain flavonoids such as morin, morin, cyclomorin and cyclomorin. Wood contains morin, Zheshuning, mulberry ketone, tetrahydrostilbene, dihydromorin, dihydrokaempferol.

Functions and effects of sang zhi

1. Clearing away heat, removing dampness and dredging collaterals

Mulberry branches can be used for rheumatic heat arthralgia and limb joint pain.

2. Mulberry branches for the treatment of watery beriberi

3. Mulberry branch for treatment of arm pain

4. Mulberry branch for treatment of hypertension

5. Mulberry branch for treatment of purpura

6. Mulberry twigs can dispel wind heat in blood. For wind itching, dry skin and purpura caused by wind heat entering blood, they can be used with psoralen, polygonum multiflorum, rehmanniae and other blood cooling, blood nourishing and wind dispelling drugs.

7. Mulberry twigs have the effect of promoting fluid and water. They can be used to quench thirst.

8. Mulberry branch is used for edema and can be used together with adzuki bean.

9. Hyperthermia: mulberry branches are matched with stony vine and honeysuckle vine to increase heat clearing effect.

10. If it is used to cure rheumatism and numbness in the arm, mulberry branches can be used equally with Clematis, Radix Stephaniae, and Radix Angelicae Sinensis.

11. People with deficiency of qi and blood: mulberry branches are used together with astragalus and spatholobus to increase the power of qi and blood.

12. Cold: mulberry twigs with cinnamon twigs can warm the meridians.

Practice of sang zhi

Sangzhi Chicken

Formula: 60g old mulberry twigs, 30g green beans, 250g chicken.

Preparation method: wash the chicken, add some water, put in the washed and cut mulberry branches and green beans, stew until the meat is rotten, and season with salt, ginger, etc.

Usage: Drink soup and eat chicken at your own discretion.

Efficacy: It can clear away heat and arthralgia, replenish qi and blood.

Application of mulberry tcm

1. With cinnamon twigs

Cinnamon twigs are sweet and warm, dispel wind, cold and dampness, warm meridians and collaterals, warm blood vessels, dispel cold and remove blood stasis; Mulberry twigs are bitter and smooth, expelling wind and dampness. They are gentle in nature. They are good at unblocking the meridians and reaching the extremities. The combination of two medicines can warm the meridians and dissipate cold, unblock the collaterals and relieve pain, and have a good effect of dispelling wind and removing arthralgia.

2. With mulberry parasitic

Mulberry branches traverse the limbs, promote body fluid, benefit joints, clear away heat and wind, remove dampness and swelling, dredge collaterals and relieve pain; Mulberry parasitics can nourish liver and kidney, strengthen muscles and bones, dispel wind and expel dampness, replenish blood and dredge collaterals; Mulberry branches are mainly connected, while mulberry parasitism is mainly supplemented. The combination of the two drugs, one tonic and one unblocked, can be used for each other to replenish the liver and kidney, strengthen the muscles and bones, dispel wind and dampness, dredge the collaterals, relieve pain, and lower blood pressure.

3. With mulberry leaves

Mulberry leaves are light and cold, light and clear, good at relieving exterior evils, dispelling wind heat, cooling blood and nourishing dryness, clearing liver and brightening eyes; Mulberry branches are good at unblocking collaterals, promoting body fluid, benefiting joints, dispelling wind, removing arthralgia and relieving pain. Mulberry leaves are mainly scattered, and mulberry branches are mainly connected. It can be used together with two medicines to clear up both heat and wind, relieve exterior symptoms, dispel wind, dredge collaterals and relieve pain. It is mostly used for wind cold and damp heat arthralgia syndrome.