Trunks, branches and barks

Name of Medicinal Material: Ramulus Mori

[Botanical name]: Mulberry.

English Name: Mulberry Branch

Source: shoots of Mulberry, a Moraceae plant.

Efficacy: expelling wind and removing dampness, benefiting joints and dampness.

Indications: Treating wind-cold-dampness arthralgia, limb contracture, beriberi edema and body wind itching.

Sexual taste and orientation: slightly bitter; Gender equality.

1 Materia Medica: Ping.

2 "Outline": bitter, flat.

③ Compendium of Medicinal Forests, and Ping.

4 "Materia Medica": bitter, slightly cold, non-toxic. Mulberry head: bitter in taste, cold in nature and non-toxic.

Sexual taste enters the meridian: enters the liver meridian.

① Deserved Materia Medica: Starting from Taiyin Classic. '

② "rejuvenation materia medica": entering the lungs and kidneys.

③ Compendium of Materia Medica: Starting from Foot Taiyin Meridian.

Efficacy and function: expelling wind and removing dampness; Activating menstruation; Steam. Treating rheumatism and arthralgia; Stroke hemiplegia; Edema beriberi; The body is itchy with the wind. Used for pain and numbness of shoulders, arms and joints.

① "Materia Medica Illustration": It can treat systemic wind itching, beriberi, limb contracture, upper qi, dizziness, lung qi cough and digestion; Promote urination and treat dry mouth.

② "Materia Medica": relieving asthma, relieving cough, regulating qi, reducing swelling and eliminating carbuncle.

3 "Herbal Yan Hui": expelling wind and cramping.

④ Compendium of Materia Medica: benefiting joints, nourishing body fluid, promoting diuresis and expelling wind.

⑤ "Sorbus sorbus liquid medicine": treating apoplexy and cough.

⑥ "Materia Medica is rejuvenated": strengthening the lung to eliminate dampness, nourishing kidney water, dredging channels and collaterals, relieving cough and vexation, reducing swelling and relieving pain.

⑦ "Lingnan Materia Medica Collection": removing joint wind disease and treating old crane knee wind.

⑧ Modern and practical Chinese medicine: Take tender branches and leaves with ointment to treat hypertension and numbness of hands and feet.

Administration and dosage: oral: decoction, 50 ~100g; Or boil ointment. External use: decocting in water, fumigating and washing.

Nickname: mulberry strips

Prescription name: mulberry branches, mulberry strips, tender mulberry branches, fried mulberry branches, fried mulberry branches, fried mulberry branches with wine, fried mulberry branches with wine, old mulberry branches, etc.

Mulberry branches, mulberry strips and tender mulberry branches written in the prescription all refer to raw mulberry branches. Remove impurities for the original medicinal materials, slice raw and use as medicine.

Stir-fry Ramulus Mori into Ramulus Mori slices, stir-fry with slow fire until light yellow, and air-cool for medicine.

Stir-fry Mulberry Branches into clean Mulberry Branches, mix with wheat bran, stir-fry with slow fire until dark yellow, sieve off wheat bran, and air-cool.

Wine mulberry branches are also called wine fried mulberry branches. Sprinkle the mulberry branches with wine and make them slightly stuffy. After being sucked dry, fry them with slow fire until they are slightly yellow. Enhance the function of expelling wind and dredging collaterals.

Trade name: mulberry branches, especially those with tender and dry branches and yellow and white cross sections.

Distribution of animal and plant resources: produced in most parts of the country; Location: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Hunan, Hebei, Sichuan and other places. Mulberry branches: remove impurities, wash, soak in water, fully moisten, cut into sections and dry in the sun.

Stir-fry mulberry branches: take clean mulberry branches, put them in a pot, stir-fry them with slow fire until they are light yellow, and let them cool. Another method, add bran, stir-fry until dark yellow, sieve off bran and let it cool. (Each mulberry branch100kg, bran 20kg)

Wine mulberry branches: evenly spray wine on mulberry branches, fry in a pot until slightly yellow, and let cool. Each mulberry branch 100 kg, wine 15 kg. 1. Treating scapulohumeral periarthritis

20g of Ramulus Mori, 30g of Caulis Spatholobi and Radix Clematidis, 20g of Radix Angelicae Sinensis, 5g of Notopterygii Rhizoma, Ramulus Cinnamomi, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Curcuma Rhizome, 5g of Radix Saposhnikoviae/kloc-0, 5g of Asari (below), decocted in water, daily 1 dose. Addition and subtraction: Radix Astragali 20g20g Radix Polygoni Multiflori for patients with right shoulder pain; For patients with severe pain, add frankincense 1.5g and myrrh1.5g; 5 grams of scorpion, Bombyx batryticatus 10 gram added to the number; Twenty grams of Radix Dipsaci is added for patients with low back pain and knee pain,15g; Is parasitic; Pangolin 10g, Zaocys 15g. Was added to those who have not recovered for a long time. Treatment 15 cases, cure 10 cases, obvious effect in 4 cases, ineffective/kloc-0 cases. The minimum dose is 6 and the maximum dose is 24. Individual patients receive acupuncture treatment. ( 1): 27〗

B. Mulberry branch 12g, Radix Paeoniae Alba 24g, Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata, Radix Clematidis, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae 10g, Radix Codonopsis 18g, Asari 3g (bottom), 5 red dates and 6 slices of ginger. After treatment, 36 cases were cured, 33 cases were cured and 3 cases were improved. 2 1(5): 24〗

C 50 grams of Radix Astragali Preparata, 65,438 00 grams of Ramulus Cinnamomi, 65,438 00 grams of Semen Persicae and Oletum Trogopterori, 65,438 05 grams of Radix Angelicae Sinensis, 20 grams of Radix Paeoniae Alba, 20 grams of Ramulus Mori, 30 grams. 6 grams of Spatholobus suberectus, 6 grams of Asari and 65438 00 grams of aconite; Rhizoma Atractylodis10g is added for those with excessive dampness; Wind winner plus windproof10g; ; Astragalus membranaceus should be decocted. After treatment, 39 cases were cured, 33 cases were improved and 6 cases were effective. The maximum dose was 16 and the minimum dose was 4. [journal of traditional chinese medicine, Hunan1990; 6(5): 4 1〗

2. Prevention and treatment of postoperative adhesion of flexor tendon in zone II: Ramulus Mori, Radix Clematidis, Rhizoma Curcumae, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Rhizoma Corydalis, Rhizoma Cyperi preparata and Herba Lycopodii each 65438±02g, Cortex Erythrinae, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Fructus Chaenomelis and Olibanum preparata each 65438±00g .. One week after operation, the local swelling and pain gradually subsided, and were decocted conventionally. Two weeks after operation, according to the wound healing, the garden balsam stem was added. Myrrha and Zanthoxylum bungeanum 65438±00g each, decocted and fumigated twice, 65438 05 ~ 30min each time, 65438 0 doses per day. During the fixation of the plaster support, the plaster support can be temporarily removed during fumigation and washing. Oral cavity and external washing should last for 4 ~ 6 weeks. 30 cases were treated, 8 cases were markedly effective, and the effective rate was 18. 25( 1 1): 498〗

3. The treatment of mulberry twigs with low leaching rate (fresh and good curative effect), decoction, daily 1 dose, treatment 10 cases. After 2 months of medication, the lymphocyte transformation rate of the body was significantly improved. (10): 36 Clinical application

1. (record of promoting granulation) Treating water and qi beriberi: mulberry strips 60g. Stir-fry with 1000 ml of water until1000 ml is taken in the air every day. In the prescription, mulberry branches promote qi and reduce swelling, which is the monarch medicine.

2. Shuangsang Jiangya Decoction (selected from the exhibition of new medical methods of Chinese herbal medicine in Liaoning) is used to treat hypertension: mulberry twig 15g, water 1000ml, and decocted to 600ml. Wash your feet for 30-40 minutes before lying down. The mulberry branch in the prescription lowers blood pressure, which is a monarch drug.

3. Mulberry twig decoction (Taiping Shenghui Formula) is used to treat purpura: Mulberry twig 500g, motherwort150g. Add 5 barrels of water, decoct with slow fire to 1500ml, remove the residue, put it in a small pot and boil it into a paste. When lying flat every night, take warm wine 10g. In the prescription, mulberry branches dispel wind and dredge collaterals, which is the monarch medicine. 1. Treatment of arm pain: one liter of mulberry branches. Fine-cut, stir-fry. Take two liters with three liters of water every day. (skill prescription)

2, the treatment of wet beriberi: mulberry two two. Stir-fry with a liter of water twice a day. (Records of Sheng Jizong)

3. Treatment of purpura: ten kilograms of mulberry branches (file) and three kilograms of motherwort (file). Decoct that above medicines with five barrel of water to five liters, filtering to remove residue, and decocting in a small pot to obtain paste. Mix with warm wine every night. ("Taiping Shenghui Fang" Mulberry Branch Soup) This product is the tender branch of mulberry in Moraceae. Harvest in late spring and early summer, pick leaves and dry them, or slice them when they are fresh. Mulberry branches are long and cylindrical, with few branches, varying in length, with a diameter of 0.5 ~ 65438 0.5 cm, grayish yellow or yellowish brown surface, and most of them have yellowish brown punctate lenticels and fine wrinkles, or have leaf scars and axillary buds. Tough and not easy to break. The section is fibrous, with a thickness of 0.2 to 0.5 cm, thin skin, yellow-white wood, radial rays, white pulp or yellow-white, slight breath and light taste. Tenderness and yellow and white section are preferred.

The dietotherapy function of mulberry branches: bitter in taste, slightly pungent and flat in nature. Enter the liver meridian and lung meridian.

Clearing heat, eliminating dampness and dredging collaterals. Can be used for rheumatism and joint pain of limbs. The product can dispel pathogenic wind, dredge collaterals and facilitate joints. Can be used repeatedly alone (preferably with old mulberry branches) to treat joint diseases such as joint swelling and pain, heat pain, etc., and can also be combined with other drugs. The main function of this product is to dispel wind and dredge collaterals. Indications: Rheumatoid joint pain, especially upper limb joint pain.

Mulberry practice instruction: 1. For finger numbness due to rheumatism, it can be used with Clematis, Ji Fang and Angelica.

2. If a cold is accompanied by cassia twig, warm the meridians;

3, if the heat is partial, it should be matched with Trachelospermum and Lonicera japonica to increase the heat-clearing effect;

4. If both qi and blood are deficient, they should be matched with Radix Astragali and Caulis Spatholobi. , thus increasing the strength of qi and blood;

5. In addition, this product can disperse wind-heat in blood, and can be combined with drugs for cooling blood, nourishing blood and expelling wind, such as Psoralea corylifolia, Polygonum Multiflori Radix and Radix Rehmanniae, to treat pruritus, dry skin and purpura caused by wind-heat entering blood.

6, it also has the effect of promoting fluid production and benefiting water, which can quench thirst and can be decocted alone; For edema, it can be used with adzuki bean.