Mulberry tree

China has experienced farming society for thousands of years. Men and women are the traditional agricultural production methods in ancient China. Picking silk is an important agricultural activity in ancient times. "The house of five acres, the tree is made of mulberry, and the fifty can be clothed" ("Mengzi•Eight people in the country"). Mulberry trees not only provide rich material production materials, but also enrich people's spiritual life.

In ancient times, the society was basically male and female. Men farming and doing business, women picking mulberry at home to raise silkworms, so the image of mulberry is naturally closely linked with women. "Wei Feng • 氓 : 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 》 "The mulberry is lonely, its yellow and sturdy." With the yellow leaves of mulberry leaves, the female youth is no longer, the marriage is broken. Sang witnessed the whole process of women's beauty, sweet love and unmarried marriage. The women who are active in the sanglin are enchanting and bright, such as Cao Zhi's "Beauty": "Beauty demon and leisure, picking up the road between the sang." There is a strong and witty, such as "Mo Shang Sang": "Luo shang sericulture, Picking up the south of the city of Sang. "There is a naive and lively, such as Yu Shu" "breaking the time": "Qiao Xiaodong is next to the female companion, and the mulberry path is welcoming. The doubt is that the dream is good in the spring, the yuan is the current fighting grass win. Laugh from the double face Life." There is loneliness and loneliness, such as Zhang Zhongsu's "Spring Blossoms": "The city is surrounded by Liu, Qing Qing Mo Shang Sang. The cage is forgotten to pick the leaves, last night dreams of Yuyang." There is hardship and poverty, such as the "silkworm" : "Xiao Xi Cai Sang much bitter, good time is not idle." The reason for the sang women’s “hands-on tears” is the exploitation of the ruling class: “The official family received new silk in February.” (Tang Yanqian’s “Sang Sang”)

Mulberry trees have the irreplaceable role of other trees in the self-sufficient society of ancient peasants, and thus are the symbol of pastoral villages. This can be reflected clearly from the poems of ancient poets. Tao Yuanming, "Guanyuan Tianju": "Suiyuan people's village, Yiyi market smoke. In the deep lane of the shit, the chicken mulberry trees are upside down." Because they "return the arable land, the industry is in Tiansang" ("Poetry" "), and the farmer "see no words, but the road is long." Meng Haoran "Over the old man": "Open the porch face, swearing sangma." Smoking, chicken, shit, deep alley, mulberry tree, talk about Sang Dao, convey a unique local flavor. There are people in the place where there is mulberry, so Sanglin became the name of the home. "Book of Songs · Xiao Yan": "Wesang and 梓, will be respectful. Look at the father, and rely on the aunt." The mulberry and banyan trees in their hometown are parents, and they should pay tribute to it. Later generations used the "mulberry" as a metaphor for their hometown, and the feeling of mulberry is "homesickness." For example, Cai Wei’s "Hu Yu 18 Shots": "Life is still succumbing to sang sang, and death is buried in the bones." Lu Ji "Hundred Years Song": "Foreword goes back to no time. Resignation of official tribute to mulberry ."

At that time, people liked to plant mulberry trees. In addition to the need to raise silkworms, it is also related to the important role of mulberry trees. The leaves, fruits, wood, branches, etc. of mulberry can be used for feeding silkworms, edible, brewing, basketing, paper making and making various utensils, while its leaves, roots, skin, twigs, ears, wood, parasites, etc. Good medicine for the disease.

The most medicinal in Chinese medicine is mulberry leaves and mulberry. The leaves of the mulberry tree are preferably harvested after the frost, and are called frost mulberry leaves or winter mulberry leaves. Its sexual taste is bitter and cold, into the lung and liver, there are wind and heat, cooling blood to stop bleeding, clearing the liver and eyesight, lungs and cough. Commonly used for the treatment of wind-heat flu, lung heat cough, liver and yang headache, dizziness, red eyes, blood heat, bleeding and night sweats. Modern is also used to treat lower extremities like skin swelling. It can be taken internally or externally, and it has also been made into an injection. In addition, the fresh mulberry leaves are excised from the veins and the white liquid juice is exuded. The name of the medicine is called mulberry leaf juice. It is bitter and slightly cold. It is good at detoxification, clearing away heat and stopping bleeding, treating sputum, tumor, traumatic bleeding and bite. Wait. The distillate of mulberry leaves can also be used to treat eye diseases. Mulberry is the ear of the mulberry tree and harvested in summer. Sexually sweet and cold, returning to the heart of the liver and kidney, there are liver and kidney, nourishing yin and blood, Shengjin Runchang, quenching the wind. Commonly used for the treatment of yin deficiency, darkness, tinnitus, insomnia, early white and Tianjin wound thirst, intestinal dry constipation. Decoction, ointment, oysters, soaking, and external washing.

The roots of mulberry trees are generally peeled and can be used as medicine. Because it is white after peeling, it is also called mulberry white skin in traditional Chinese medicine. In the winter, mulberry roots are removed and their cork is removed for medicinal purposes. Sexually sweet and cold, into the lung and spleen, there is diarrhea and lung asthma, water swelling and swelling. Commonly used for the treatment of lung heat cough, phlegm, edema, athlete's foot, dysuria and other evidence. Add more decoction, powder, and simmer or fry water for external use. The mulberry root can also be used as a medicine. The book contains its bitter taste and can cure epileptic seizures, bone and muscle pain, high blood pressure, red eyes, thrush, and uterine bleeding. In addition, the white juice in the whole mulberry bark is called mulberry juice, which can cure mouth sores and traumatic bleeding in children. The wood of mulberry can also be used as medicine. There are usually three uses. One is the ash burned by wood, called mulberry ash, which can treat edema, bleeding from gold sores, and swelling and pain in the eyes. The second is the mulberry ash and water to make juice, filtered and evaporated to obtain the crystal, the name sang cream, can treat foraging blocks and scorpion venom. The third is the nodule on the old mulberry wood, the name mulberry, the ancients think that it can dehumidify the wind, treat rheumatism and pain, old cranes and knees. Mulberry branches can also be used for medicinal purposes, and mulberry branches are also the tender branches of mulberry trees, harvested in late spring and early summer. Its sexual taste is bitter, and it is partial to the liver. It is good at rheumatism, through meridians, and it is good for joints and water. Mostly used to treat rheumatism and pain, limbs, edema, itchiness and other evidence, especially for upper limb pain. Can be fried soup or ointment orally, or fry water to wash. In addition, after burning the branches of the mulberry tree, the juice can be drained, the name Sang Li, the book "Compendium of Materia Medica" and other books can be used to treat "Dafeng sore", tetanus, and children with rotten sores.

Unexpectedly, not only the mulberry trees can be used for medicine, but also some parasites that are parasitic on the mulberry trees are also good medicines for treating diseases in Chinese medicine. The fungus that is parasitic on the mulberry tree, the ancient medicine book called mulberry, the taste is sweet, can treat intestinal wind, hemorrhoids hemorrhage, blood stasis and woman uterine bleeding, belting, abdominal pain and so on. In addition, the current clinically common mulberry parasitic is the branches and leaves of many plants of the mulberry family, but the ancients think that it is better to parasitize the mulberry tree, its taste is bitter into the liver and kidney, it is good for rheumatism, liver and kidney, strong bones and bones, raising Blood and fetus. For the treatment of rheumatic pain, waist and knee pain and women with uterine bleeding, fetal movement and other symptoms.

Some people say that nature itself is a huge drugstore. As long as it is used properly, it is the kindness of human beings. We look at it from a small mulberry tree, and this statement is really worthwhile.