Mulberi (Morus alba)
Traditional uses
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used in eye problem
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to cool down the blood and stop bleeding (nosebleeds)
Leaves: can be used alone and other herbs
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to lubricate the lung which cause by wind-heat or dryness evils
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for long consumption, which nourishes the liver and kidney
Leaves: combined with glossy privet fruit, wolfberry fruit, black sesame and honey to make pills
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to soothe the liver and clear the fire when it accumulated in the liver
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for diet
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used to treat fever, protect liver damage, improve eyesight, strengthen joints, facilitate discharge of urine, and lower blood pressure
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to lower blood pressure
Preparation/ part of plants used
Leaves: decoction for eye washing
Leaves: can work with schizonepeta herb, coastal glehnia root, dwaft lily-tuber, unibract fritillary bulb and bitter apricot seed (Mulberry and Apricot decoction)
Leaves: work with herbs like cassia seed, selfheal fruit spike, chrysanthemum and plantain seed
Common names
-mulberi, bebesaran, kertau (Malaysia)
-mulberry, white mulberry (English)
-chinni, tut,tutri(Hindi)
-sang (China)
-belongs to Moraceae family
-can be propagated by seeds, cuttings, or​ graftings
- a monoecious shrub or a medium
sized tree with a cylindrical stem and rough, brown, vertically fissured bark
-leaves are deeply lobed, margins serrate or crenate-serrate, apex acute or shortly acuminate, base cordate
-flowers are inconspicuous and greenish
-fruit (syncarp) consists of many drupes enclosed in a fleshy perianth, ovoid or subglobose, white to pinkish white, purple or black when ripe
Descriptions
Chemical constituents
1-caffeoylquinnic acid, caffeic acid, 5-caffeoylquinnic acid, 4-caffeoylquinnic acid, quercetin-3-O-rhamnoside -7-O-glucoside, quercetin-3,7-D-O-β-D-glucopyranoside, kaempferol-7-O-glucoside, rutin, quercetin-3-O-glucoside, quercetin-3-O-(6-malonyl)- β -D-glucopyranoside, quercetin-3-O-glucoside-7-O-rhamnoside, kaempferol-3-oglucopyranosyl-(1,6)- β –Dglucopyranoside, kaempferol-3-O-(6-malonyl)glucoside, phenolic acid, flavonols.
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Leaves:
By ethanol extract: flavonol glycosides, quercetin 3-(6-malonylglucoside), rutin, and isoquercitrin, four new 2-arylbenzofuran derivatives (moracins V−Y), two known compounds (moracins N and P), morachalcones B and C
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By butanol extract: two novel prenylflavanes and a glycoside, along with six known compounds, isoquercitrin, astragalin, scopolin, skimmin, roseoside II, and benzyl D-glucopyranoside
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Fruits:
​2α, 3β-Dihydroxynortropane, 2β, 3β-Dihydroxynortropane, 3β, 6exo-Dihydroxynortropane, 2-[2-Formyl-5-(hydroxymethyl)-1-pyrrolyl-]3-methyl pentanoic acid lactone, 4-[Formyl-5-(hydroxymethyl)-1H-pyrrol-1-yl] butanoate, 4-[Formyl-5-(methoxymethyl)-1H-pyrrol-1-yl] butanoic acid, 2-(5-Hydroxymethyl-2′, 5′-dioxo-2′, 3′, 4′, 5′-tetrahydrobipyrrole) carbaldehyde, Methyl 2-[2-formyl-5-(methoxymethyl)-1H-pyrrol-1-yl]-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl) propanoate
Fruit: eaten raw
Leaves, fruits, and bark
Leaves: consumed as a tea