Mullberry Fruit

Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Xinjiang.

Aggregate fruit made up of many small achenes clustered together, long spherical shape, 1~2cm long, 0.5~0.8cm diameter. Yellowish-brown, brownish-red to dark purple (relatively rarely, the color is milky-white when mature), with short fruit stem. Small achene is oval-round, slightly flat, about 2mm long, 1mm wide, exterior has 4 fleshy perianths. faint odor, slightly sour and sweet taste.

Superior medicinal material is large, thick, purplish-red, with a sugary nature.

Sweet, sour, cold

Supplements blood, nourishes yin, engenders fluid, moistens dryness. Apply to vertigo and tinnitus, palpitation and insomnia, early graying of beard and hair, hydrodipsia due to depletion of body fluids, feverish dysphoria and diabetes, hemopenia and constipation. Supplements liver, promotes kidney, extinguishes wind, and nourishes fluid. Apply to yin deficiency of liver and kidney, diabetes, constipation, dim vision, tinnitus, scrofula, difficulty of joint.