Sang Ye
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Othe Names : White mulberry leaf, 桑叶, Folium Mori, Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing
See also : White Mulberry
Contents
Special Precautions of Sang Ye
Property
Sweet, bitter, cold; lung and liver meridians entered.
Actions
Disperse wind-heat, clear lung-heat and moisten the dryness, subdue liver-yang, clear liver-heat and improve vision.
Benefits and uses of Sang Ye are
- Wind-heat exterior syndrome and warm diseases at the defense system : For it has a mild action of dispersing the exterior pathogens, it is often used together with Bo He to dispel wind-heat for a strengthened action. Being able to clear lung-heat, it is used with Ju Hua for wind-heat externally and lung-heat internally leading to fever, itching throat, cough and also used in conjunction with sore-throat relieving and cough-stopping herbs such as Jie Geng and Xing Ren to achieve the effect of dispersing wind-heat to release exterior externally and clearing lung-heat and eliminating cough internally, just as Sang Ju Yin in Wen Bing Tiao Bian.
- Lung-heat or dryness-heat cough : Being bitter and cold to clear lung-heat, sweet and cold to cool and moisten the lung, it is indicated for lung-heat or dryness-heat hurting the lung, manifested as cough with little yellow and sticky phlegm, or dry cough with no sputum. For the less serious syndrome, it's often used together with herbs which can clear lung-heat, resolve phlegm and relieve cough such as Sha Shen, Zhe Bei Mu, Xing Ren, just as the Sang Xing Tang in Wen Bing Tiao Bian; for the serious syndrome, it is often used in conjunction with yin-nourishing and lung-moistening herbs such as Mai Dong, E Jiao, just as Qing Zao Jiu Fei Tang in Yi Men Fa Lu (Principals and Prohibitions of Medical Profession).
- Oculus diseases, headache, and dizziness due to liver-heat : Being able to remove liver-heat and moisten the yin to improve eyesight, it is often used together with Ju Hua, Xia Ku Cao which can remove liver heat and improve eyesight for liver-fire flaming up leading to blood-shot, painful eyes with profuse tears. It also can be used together with herbs that can tonify essence and blood such as Hei Zhi Ma, Gou Qi Zi for the essence and blood deficiency of liver and kidney to improve the eyesight. Also it's often used in conjunction with liver-heat-removing and liver-subduing herbs as Ju Hua, Shi Jue Ming to treat the dizziness and headache caused by liver-heat.
- Besides this, being able to cool blood and stop bleeding, it can be used for bleeding due to blood-heat such as hemoptysis, epistaxis and hematemesis.
- Diabetes mellitus : In the study to a literature review aimed to analyse various studies related to the use of phytotherapy in diabetes mellitus in Turkey in order to provide additional information for healthcare professionals, indicated that among the herbs most-commonly used along with modern medical therapies and also in folkloric medicine, we searched for bitter melon, cinnamon, fenugreek, olive leaf, black seed and white mulberry. Studies conducted in this field have produced conflicting results and, the necessity to conduct randomized, placebo-controlled clinical human studies to develop new drugs from herbs, as in the case of metformin, still remains important. Besides, further studies are required to address the issues of standardization and quality control of existing preparations. More importantly, healthcare professionals caring for diabetic patients need to be aware of phytotherapy to incorporate phytomedicine into their practices and should undertake more responsibility in relation to these kind of therapies that are commonly-used throughout the world.
- Oxidative stress : In the study to investigate the effects of ML in metabolic disorders and examined the mechanisms by which ML ameliorates metabolic disorders in db/db mice, found that ML ameliorates adipocytokine dysregulation at least in part through inhibiting oxidative stress in WAT of db/db mice, and that ML may be a basis for a pharmaceutical for the treatment of the metabolic syndrome as well as reducing adverse effects of pioglitazone.
- Obesity or diabetes : In the study to investigate the ability of an extract of black, green, and mulberry tea leaves to induce malabsorption of carbohydrate and triacylglycerol in healthy volunteers, found that with the carbohydrate-containing meal, the tea extract resulted in a highly significant increase in breath-hydrogen concentrations, which indicated appreciable carbohydrate malabsorption. A comparison of hydrogen excretion after the carbohydrate-containing meal with that after the nonabsorbable disaccharide lactulose suggested that the tea extract induced malabsorption of 25% of the carbohydrate. The tea extract did not cause triacylglycerol malabsorption or any significant increase in symptoms and concluded that this study provides the basis for additional experiments to determine whether the tea extract has clinical utility for the treatment of obesity or diabetes.
