mulberry leaf
Family and genus: Moraceae
mulberry leaf
mulberry leaf
The source is the leaves of Mulberry, a Moraceae plant.
Plants are small trees or shrubs, up to 15m. Bark is grayish yellow or yellowish brown; Young branches are hairy. Leaves alternate, ovoid to broadly ovoid, 6 ~ 15 cm long and 4 ~ 12 cm wide. The apex is sharp or blunt, the base is round or nearly heart-shaped, the edge has coarse teeth, the top is hairless and shiny, the bottom is green, the veins are sparse, and there are hairs between the veins; Petiole length 1 ~ 2.5 cm. Dioecious, the inflorescence of the bone flower is axillary; Male inflorescence caducous; The female inflorescence is 1 ~ 2 cm long, the style is inconspicuous or absent, and there are 2 stigmas. Chrysanthemum fruit is purple-black or white when it matures. The flowering period is April-May and the fruiting period is June-July.
Born in the mountains, born on the roadside. It is cultivated all over the country.
Collect the first frost, remove impurities and dry in the sun.
Most of the characters are shriveled and broken. Complete peduncle, leaves yellow-green or light yellow-brown, and some have small verrucous processes; The following table has light skin color, prominent veins, reticulation, sparse hairs on veins and tufts of hairs at the base of veins. Crispy. Slight breath, light taste, slightly bitter and slightly astringent.
Chemical constituents include inokosterone, ecdysterone, β-sterol, rutin, morocetin, isoquercitrin, umbelliferone, scopoletin, α-,β-hexenal (α-,β-
mulberry leaf
Bitter, slightly cold.
Function (1): Dispelling wind and clearing heat: used for wind-heat cold and red eyes, often used with chrysanthemum.
(2) Clearing liver and improving eyesight: used for wind-fire eye diseases (such as acute conjunctivitis). Sangma Pills made from black sesame seeds are used to treat dizziness caused by deficiency of liver yin and hyperactivity of liver yang.
(3) For lung heat and dry cough: this product can clear lung heat due to bitter cold, nourish yin due to sweet cold, and moisten lung dryness, so it can be used for lung injury due to dry heat and dry cough with little phlegm. Almond, Radix Adenophorae and Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae can be used in mild cases, such as Sangxing Decoction. In severe cases, it can be used with gypsum, Ophiopogon japonicus and Ejiao.
Modern pharmacological research
1. Mulberry leaves have spasmolytic effect.
2. Mulberry leaves have the function of resisting pathogenic microorganisms. Mulberry leaf decoction has certain inhibitory effect on staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic streptococcus B, diphtheria and Escherichia coli in vitro. In addition, it can kill leptospira.
3. Mulberry leaves have anti-inflammatory effect.
4. Mulberry leaves have hypoglycemic effect. Ecdysterone contained in it has hypoglycemic effect on the increase of blood sugar induced by many methods, and can promote the conversion of glucose into glycogen, but it does not change the blood sugar of normal animals.
5. Mulberry leaves can lower blood pressure. After anesthesia, the blood pressure of dogs was temporarily decreased by injecting mulberry leaf extract into femoral vein, but it did not affect breathing.
6. Mulberry leaves have an effect on smooth muscle, which can excite the estrous uterus of animals and inhibit the intestinal muscles of rats.
7. Mulberry leaves also have the functions of lowering blood fat and diuresis.
Party selection
① For people who cough but are not very hot and slightly thirsty: almond, forsythia, mint, mulberry leaf, chrysanthemum, bitter stem, licorice and reed rhizome. Two cups of boiled water, one cup, two servings a day. ("Treatise on Febrile Diseases" Sang Juyin)
2 Cure the wind and tears instantly: mulberry leaves don't fall in the twelfth lunar month, soup is washed every day, or mirabilite. ("lakeside collection simplified formula")
(3) When washing the sun, the wind and heat cause swelling and pain, and the eyes are dull: two iron fans, half of which are washed with boiling water, are covered, and when the soup is warm, its color is yellow-green like strong tea. Then wash your eyes and dry them; Warm the medicine juice bowl with water every hour or two, and then wash it three or five times a day. ("Su Yangyuan Fang Chuanxin")
④ Treating deficiency of liver yin, red eyes, chronic cough, wrong nails and numbness: one catty of tender mulberry leaves (pedicled, washed and dried in the end) and four ounces of black flax seeds (washed). Crush flax, boil thick juice and a catty of white honey, and refine until dripping into beads, and mulberry leaves are as big as wutong pills. San Qian should drink salt soup on an empty stomach and warm wine on his back. ("medical grade" Sangma pill)
⑤ Treatment of hematemesis: late mulberry leaves, slightly baked, no matter how much, smashed into fine powder. Every time I take San Qian Bibi, the herbal tea is mixed with cream, which makes people feel a little fragrant, and when I lie down at night, I feel like swallowing body fluid. Take it only once, and then use lung tonic. (the only holy powder in the "Total Records of the Holy Relics")
⑥ After curing cholera, I feel restless: hold mulberry leaves, cut them into pieces, fry them in a big glass of water for five minutes, and take them warm regardless of time. (Sheng Huifang)
⑦ Curing children's thirst: No matter how many mulberry leaves, apply them one by one with raw honey, stretch the thread on the leaf pedicle, dry them in the shade, finely cut them, and decoct them with water. ("Winning the Gold Party")
⑧ Treatment of large intestine proctoptosis: Three liters of mulberry leaves, decocted in water, with a warm handkerchief. (Ren Zhai Zhi Fang)
⑨ Treating palm swelling: New mulberry leaves crush children. ("Xuan Tong Theory")
Attending to treat carbuncle without healing: Frosted mulberry leaves are the last compress. (Ren Zhai Zhi Fang)
1 1. Treatment of fire and soup sore: frosted mulberry leaves, baked, burnt, fine powder, mixed with sesame oil or dried. (The True Story of Medicine)
12. treatment of sore throat and toothache: mulberry leaves are three to five yuan, decocted. (Common Chinese herbal medicines in Shanghai)
13. Treatment of vertigo: Mulberry leaf San Qian, Chrysanthemum San Qian, Lycium barbarum San Qian, Cassia seed. Decocting with water instead of drinking tea o (Handbook of Chinese Herbal Medicine in Shandong Province)
14. Cure the wind of shaking head (tongue spitting, clear water flowing, shaking head constantly): one to two yuan of mulberry leaves, decocted with water (Jiangxi Materia Medica Manual).