Harvest in late spring and early summer, pick leaves and dry them, or slice them when they are fresh.
Compendium of Materia Medica: "Treat systemic wind itching and dryness, beriberi, limb contracture, upper qi, dizziness, lung qi cough and digestion;" Facilitate urination and cure dry mouth. "
Compendium of Materia Medica: "Benefiting joints, nourishing body fluid, promoting blood circulation and expelling wind."
Materia Medica: "Eliminating wind and stopping spasm."
Compendium of Materia Medica: "relieving asthma, relieving cough and regulating qi, reducing swelling and toxic carbuncle."
Herbal rejuvenation: "tonifying lung qi, eliminating dampness, nourishing kidney water, dredging menstruation, relieving cough and vexation, reducing swelling and relieving pain."
(1) is long cylindrical, and the pieces are round or oval thick.
(2) The surface is grayish yellow, with many yellowish brown punctate lenticels and thin longitudinal stripes.
(3) Tough texture, fiber section, thin skin, radial wood with white or yellow-white spongy pith in the center.
(4) Slight breath and light taste.
According to traditional experience, the branches are tender and dry, and the cut surface is yellow and white.
Chinese medicine believes that mulberry branches are slightly bitter and flat; Liver meridian. It has the effects of expelling wind, dredging collaterals, inducing diuresis and reducing swelling, and has certain curative effect on rheumatism and numbness of shoulder-arm joint pain.
1. Braised chicken soup with old mulberry
The formula is 60 grams of old mulberry branches, hens 1 hen and 3 slices of ginger.
Wash the old mulberry branches with clear water; Hens are depilated and washed. Put the mulberry branches, hens and ginger together in a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, boil with strong fire, stew for about 2 hours with low fire, and add appropriate amount of salt.
Function of expelling wind and removing dampness, benefiting joints and essence.
2. Mulberry wine
Formula: Ramulus Mori, Cortex Acanthopanacis, Fructus Chaenomelis, Semen Sojae Atricolor (fried), Flos Lonicerae, Coicis Semen, Mahonia, Cortex Phellodendri, Bombyx Batryticatus, pine nuts10g, and Chinese liquor1000ml.
Preparation: Mash the above medicinal materials, put them into cloth bags, put them into containers, add Chinese liquor, seal and soak them for 15 days, and filter to remove residues.
Usage: Take 30ml each time, three times a day.
Function of expelling wind and removing dampness, clearing heat and dredging collaterals. Can be used for treating arthralgia due to damp-heat, thirst, vexation, and muscle and vein contracture.
3. Ophiopogon japonicus Mulberry Tea
Formula Ophiopogon japonicus, Ramulus Mori and salt.
Mulberry branches are split with a kitchen knife, divided into 7 uniform sections, and washed. Put a proper amount of water in the soup pot, put Mulberry Branch and Ophiopogon japonicus in the pot and boil until the water boils, then add a little salt.
Function: Nourish yin and moisten lung, clear heart and relieve annoyance.
4. Mulberry chrysanthemum and Gemini porridge
The formula is mulberry branch 15g, chrysanthemum 5g, lotus seed 5g, medlar 5g and glutinous rice 60g.
Method: add proper amount of water to mulberry branches and chrysanthemums, and cook for 20 minutes, then remove residues and leave juice. Wash the glutinous rice, add water into the casserole, add lotus seeds and medlar at the same time, pour the medicine juice, boil it with strong fire, and simmer for half an hour.
Function This porridge has the effects of expelling wind and removing dampness, dredging joints, clearing away heat and toxic materials, treating joint movement and joint swelling and pain caused by rheumatic arthritis or rheumatoid arthritis, and improving symptoms such as anorexia, dyspepsia, vomiting and diarrhea caused by damp evil in summer.
Pregnant women should not take it. Not suitable for people who drink cold and tie their lungs.
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Text/Xu Chuangeng
Source/WeChat WeChat official account "China Medical Science and Technology Publishing House"