Pharmaceutical Name:

Cortex Mori

Botanical Name:

Morus alba L.

Common Name:

Mulberry bark
Morus bark

Source of Earliest Record:

Shennong Bencao Jing

Part Used & Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations:

The bark of the root is collected in winter. It is cleaned, cut into pieces and dried in the sun.

Properties and Taste:

Sweet and cold

Meridian:

Lung

Functions:

To reduce heat from the lungs and soothe asthma
To promote urination and reduce edema

Indications and Combinations:

1.     Heat in the lungs manifested as cough with excessive sputum and asthma.
*Use with Wolfberry bark (Digupi) and Licorice root (Gancao) in the formula Xiebai San.

2.     Dysuria or edema.
*Use with Areca nut shell (Dafupi) and Poria peel (Fulingpi) in the formula Wupi Yin.

Dosage:

10-15 g