500g, Sang Zhi, RAMULUS MORI, Tcm Herbal

"Chinese Pharmacopoeia": Mulberry Branch

Pinyin: Sānɡ Zhī

English name: RAMULUS MORI

Source This product is the dry shoots of Morus alba L. Harvest in late spring and early summer, remove leaves and sun-dried, or slice fresh and sun-dried.

Characters This product is long cylindrical, with few branches, different lengths, diameter 0.5 ~ 1.5cm. The surface is gray-yellow or yellow-brown, with many yellow-brown dotted lenticels and fine longitudinal stripes, and gray-white slightly semicircular leaf scars and yellow-brown axillary buds. The quality is tough, not easy to break, and the section is fibrous. The slice thickness is 0.2 to 0.5 cm, the skin is thin, the xylem is yellow-white, the rays are radial, and the pith is white or yellow-white. Gas micro, tasteless.

Store in a dry place.

Processed mulberry branches: those that are not sliced, washed, moistened thoroughly, cut into thick slices, and dried in the sun.

Stir-fried mulberry branches: Take slices of mulberry branches and fry them according to the method of stir-frying (Appendix II D) until light yellow.

Identification This product is grayish-yellow powder. There are many fibers, bundled or scattered, pale yellow or colorless, slightly curved, 10-30 μm in diameter, 5-15 μm in wall thickness, with folds at the bend, inconspicuous pores and grooves, and very thin lumens. The stone cells are pale yellow, in the shape of round or square, 15-40 μm in diameter, 5-20 μm in wall thickness, and small in cell cavity. The crystal-containing sclerenchyma cells are grouped or scattered, similar in shape and size to stone cells, and contain 1 or 2 square crystals of calcium oxalate in the cell cavity. Calcium oxalate cubic crystals exist in sclerenchyma cells or are scattered, and are polyhedral or square, wilted, biconical-like, with a diameter of 5-20 μm.

Return to the Liver Channel.

Taste slightly bitter, flat.

Function Indications Dispel rheumatism, benefit joints. For shoulder arm, joint pain and numbness.

Usage and dosage 9～15g.

Excerpt from "Chinese Pharmacopoeia"

Remark :

(1) For rheumatic arthralgia, it is often used in combination with Fangji, Weilingxian, Qianghuo, Duhuo, etc. This product is good for walking the upper limbs, especially for shoulder and back pain, and the meridians are not good. Compatible use of rheumatism medicine.

Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Sangzhi

Pinyin phonetic Sānɡ Zhī

Aliases Sang Tiao ("The Sketch Book").

Source "The Book of Sketches"

The source is the twigs of Morus mulberry. Harvest in late spring and early summer, remove leaves, dry slightly, cut into 30-60 cm long segments or oblique slices when fresh, and dry in the sun.

Habitat distribution It is produced in most parts of the country; it is mainly produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Hunan, Hebei, Sichuan and other places.

Characters Dry twigs are long cylindrical, of varying lengths, 0.5 to 1 cm in diameter. The exterior is gray-yellow or gray-brown, with many light brown dotted lenticels and fine longitudinal stripes, and gray-white half-moon-shaped leaf scars and brown-yellow leaf buds can be seen. Tough, elastic, difficult to break, yellow-white section, fibrous. The oblique piece is oval in shape and about 2 mm long. The cut surface has a thin skin, the xylem is yellowish-white, with fine lines, and there is a small and soft pith in the center. There is a grassy smell, and the taste is light and slightly sticky. Those with tender quality and yellow-white section are preferred.

Chemical composition Mulberry branches contain tannin, free sucrose, fructose, stachyose, glucose, maltose, raffinose, arabinose, and xylose. The stem contains flavonoids mulberry, mulberry, cyclosan, and cyclosan. The wood contains morin, zheshuning, mulberry, tetrahydroxystilbene, dihydromorin, and dihydrokaempferol.

Processed mulberry branches: pick out impurities, wash, soak in water, moisten thoroughly, cut into sections, and sun-dry. Stir-fried mulberry branches: Take the net mulberry branches, fry them in a pot with slow heat until light yellow, and let cool. In addition, add bran and stir-fry until dark yellow, sieve to remove bran, and let cool. (100 catties per mulberry branch, 20 catties bran) Wine mulberry branch: Take the mulberry branch and spray it with wine, fry it in a pot until it is slightly yellow, and let it cool. (100 jins per mulberry branch, 15 jins of wine)

Enter the liver meridian.

① "Depei Materia Medica": "Start with Taiyin Jing."

② "Material Renewal": "Enter the lung and kidney meridians."

③ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Start, Foot Taiyin Meridian."

Sexual taste Bitter, flat.

① "Book of Sketches": "Flat."

② "Outline": "Bitter, flat."

③ "Medical Forest Compilation": "Gan Xin, Ping."

④ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Bitter taste, slightly cold, non-toxic." "Sangtou: bitter taste, cold in nature, non-toxic."

Functions and Indications: Dispel rheumatism, benefit joints, move water and qi. Treating wind-cold-damp arthralgia, limb spasm, beriberi, and body itching.

① "Book of Sketches": "Treats wind and dryness all over the body, athlete's foot, limb spasm, suffocation, dizziness, lung qi cough, digestion; facilitates urination, and also treats dry mouth."

② "Materia Medica Mengquan": "Relieving asthma and coughing adverse qi, eliminating swelling and poisonous carbuncle."

③ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Remove the pain caused by wind and qi."

④ "Ben Cao Bei Yao": "Benefits joints, nourishes body fluids, and expels wind by expelling water."

⑤ "Yuyu Medicinal Solution": "Treatment of stroke and skewness, cough."

⑥ "Materia Medica Renew": "Strengthen the lung qi, dry dampness, nourish the kidney water, clear the meridians, relieve cough and relieve vexation, reduce swelling and relieve pain."

⑦ "Lingnan Medicine Collecting Record": "Remove the joint wind disease and treat the elderly crane knee wind."

⑧ "Modern Practical Traditional Chinese Medicine": "Take the twigs and leaves as a paste to treat high blood pressure and numbness of the hands and feet."

Dosage Oral: decoction, 1-2 taels; or boiled paste. External use: Jianshui, fumigation and washing.

Compound:

 ①Treatment of arm pain: a small liter of mulberry branch. Finely chop, stir-fry until fragrant, take three liters of water, fry two liters, and consume it every day, no time. ("This Party")

② Treatment of water, gas and beriberi: two liang of mulberry strips. Stir-fry until fragrant, add one liter of water, fry for two, and serve it daily. ("Saint Masjid")

③ Treatment of high blood pressure: 5 money each for mulberry branches, mulberry leaves, and fenugreek seeds. Add 1000ml of water and fry to 600ml. Wash your feet 30 to 40 minutes before going to bed, and then go to bed. (Shuangsang Jiangya Decoction, Selected Materials of Liaoning "New Medical Law Exhibition of Chinese Herbal Medicine")

④Treatment of purpura: 10 catties of mulberry branches (file) and 3 catties of motherwort (file). For the medicine, use five buckets of water, simmer to five liters, filter out the residue, put it in a small pan, and boil it to make a paste. When lying down every night, use warm wine to mix and take half-heart. ("Sheng Hui Fang" mulberry branch fried)

Various discussion "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Sangzhi, gong is used to remove rheumatism and contracture, and cinnamon sticks can cure shoulder and arm pain;

Excerpt: "Chinese Medicine Dictionary"

"Chinese Materia Medica": Mulberry Branch

Pinyin: Sānɡ Zhī

Aliases: mulberry

The source is from "The Book of Sketches"

Source Medicinal material base source: the twigs of Morus mulberry.

Latin plant animal mineral name: Morus alba L.

Harvesting and storage: Harvest in early spring and early summer, remove leaves, dry slightly, cut into 30-60cm long segments or oblique slices when fresh, and dry in the sun.

Habitat distribution Ecological environment: Born in hills, hillsides, villages, fields, etc., mostly artificial cultivation.

Resource distribution: Distributed all over the country.

Original form Deciduous shrub or small tree, 3-15m high. The bark is grayish-white, with strips and lobes; the root bark is yellowish-brown or reddish-yellow, with strong fibers. Single leaf alternate; petiole length l-2.5cm; leaf blade ovate or broadly ovate, 5-20cm long, 4-10cm wide, apex acute or acuminate, base rounded or nearly heart-shaped, margins coarsely serrated or rounded Teeth, sometimes with irregular divisions, glabrous above, shiny, short hairs on lower veins, hairy between axilla, 3 basal veins interwoven with thin veins in a network, obvious on the back; stipules lanceolate , fall early. Flowers unisexual, dioecious; female and male inflorescences are arranged in spike-like catkins, axillary; female inflorescences are 1-2cm long, hairy, and total pedicel is 5-10mm long; male inflorescences are 1-2.5cm long, drooping, Slightly hairy; male flowers with tepals 4, stamens 4, central sterile pistil; female flowers with tepals 4, base connate, stigma 2-lobed. Achenes, most of which are densely formed into an oval or oblong aggregated fruit, l-2.5cm long, green at first, and become fleshy, black-purple or red when mature. Seeds are small. The flowering period is April-May, and the fruiting period is May-June.

Characters Character identification The shoots are long cylindrical, with few branches, different lengths, 0.5-1.5cm in diameter. The surface is gray-yellow or yellow-brown, with many yellow-brown dotted lenticels and fine longitudinal stripes, and gray-white slightly semicircular leaf scars and yellow-brown axillary buds. The quality is tough and not easy to break; the section is fibrous. The slice thickness is 0.2-0.5cm, the skin is thinner, the xylem is yellow-white, the rays are radial, and the pith is white or yellow-white. Gas micro, tasteless.

Those with tender quality and yellow-white section are preferred.

Microscopic identification Powder characteristics: grayish yellow.

① There are many fibers, scattered in bundles or single, more tangled, pale yellow or colorless. Very long, slightly curved, diameter 8-33μm, wall thickness 4-15μm, non-woody, very thin cell cavity.

②Stone cells are mostly in groups, pale yellow or yellow in the shape of round, oval or square, with a diameter of 13-39 μm, a few as long as 70 μm, and a wall thickness of 6-20 μm. Branches, cell cavity small. Another stone cell wall is thinner.

③ The crystalline thick-walled cells are mostly scattered in groups or singly. The shape and size are similar to those of stone cells, and the cell cavity contains 1-2 cubic crystals of calcium oxalate.

④Cubic crystals of calcium oxalate exist in sclerenchyma cells or scattered, with a diameter of 5-20μm.

⑤ Wood rays are atypical cell rays, with bead-like thickened walls and dense pits.

⑥ Wood fibers are mostly bundled, often connected with wood ray cells. It is long fusiform, with a tail tip at the end, a diameter of 12-20 μm, a wall thickness of about 2 μm, few pits, and inconspicuous grooves.

⑦ The ducts are mainly bordered pit ducts.

⑧ Occasionally, milk tubes are 10-25 (-30) μm in diameter and contain fine granular secretions. Quality Mark (Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China) 1995 edition stipulates: This product is determined by hot soaking method, and the ethanol extract shall not be less than 3.0%.

Chemical composition: mulberry branches contain tannin [1], sucrose, fructose, stachyose, glucose, maltose, raffinose, arabic Sugar (arabinose), xylose (xylose) [2]; stem contains flavonoids: mulberrin, mulbel-rochromene, cyclomulberrin, cyclomulbel-rochromene ) [3]. Wood contains morin, cudranin [4,5], 2,4,4',6-tetrahydroxybenzophenone (2,4,4',6-tetrahydroxybenzoph-none), 2,3',4,4',6-pentahydroxybenzophenone (2,3',4,4',6-pentahydrox-ybenzophenone, maclurin)[5]; rin), dihydro kaempferol, 2,4,3',5'-tetrahydroxystilbene (2,4,3',5'-tetrahydroxystilbene)[6], alboctalol [7].

Processed mulberry branches: pick out impurities, wash, soak in water, moisten thoroughly, cut into sections, and sun-dry. Stir-fried mulberry branches: Take the net mulberry branches, fry them in a pot with slow heat until light yellow, and let cool. In addition, add bran and stir-fry until dark yellow, sieve to remove bran, and let cool. (100 jins of mulberry branches, 20 jins of bran) wine mulberry branches: take the mulberry branches and spray them with wine, fry them in a pot until slightly yellow, and let cool. (100 jins per mulberry branch, 15 jins of wine)

Meridian: Liver Meridian

Flavor: Bitter; Flat

Functions and indications: Dispel rheumatism; clear meridians; move water and qi. Mainly rheumatic arthralgia; stroke hemiplegia; edema and beriberi; body itching

Usage and dosage Oral: decoction, 15～30g. External use: appropriate amount, simmer in water for fumigation and washing.

Compound:

 ①Treatment of arm pain: a small liter of mulberry branches. Finely chop, stir-fry until fragrant, take three liters of water, fry two liters, and consume it every day, no time. ("Party")

②Treatment of water, gas and beriberi: Two liang of mulberry. Stir-fry until fragrant, add one liter of water, fry for two, and serve it daily. ("Saint Masjid")

③Treatment of high blood pressure: 5 money each for mulberry branches, mulberry leaves, and Wuweizi. Add 1000ml of water and fry to 600ml. Wash your feet 30 to 40 minutes before going to bed and wash your eyelashes. (Shuangsang Jiangya Decoction)

④ Treatment of purple carbuncle: 10 catties of mulberry (frustration) and three catties of motherwort (frustration). For the medicine, use five buckets of water, simmer to five liters, filter out the residue, put it into a small block, and boil it to make a paste. When lying down every night, drink half of the table with warm wine. (Named Shenghui Fang" mulberry branch fried)

Various discussion: "Compendium of Materia Medica": mulberry branch, gong is used to remove rheumatism and contracture, obtain cinnamon branch to treat shoulder and arm pain;

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