The efficacy and function of Ma Sang fruit

The mulberry fruit is very common in rural areas. Sometimes we can see it growing on the side of country roads, on both sides of rivers, or even next to vegetable gardens. I believe many people have picked mulberry fruits when they were young, because mulberry fruits look like small beads grown together, with a black and purple appearance, like a smaller version of grapes, and your hands may be stained with color after you squeeze them open. What are the effects and functions of Masang fruit?

The mulberry tree is a shrub of the family Morinaceae, in the order Sapindales. It can reach a height of 2.5 meters. The twigs are quadrangular or four-narrow-winged. The old branches are purple-brown. The bud scales are membranous, ovate or ovate-triangular. The leaves are opposite, papery to thinly leathery, with acute apex, rounded base, glabrous on both sides or sparsely hairy along the veins, and protrusions on the back of the leaves; the leaves are short-petioled, purple, and have racemes. The male inflorescences open before the leaves, with many flowers densely packed. The bracts and bracteoles are ovate, membranous, translucent, and concave, and the pedicels are glabrous; the sepals are ovate, with translucent margins, the upper petals are extremely small, elongated when flowering, the anthers are oblong, the connectives are extended, the carpels are ear-shaped, the style has small warts, purple-red, and the fruit is spherical, turning from red to purple-black when the fruit is ripe. The seeds are ovate-oblong.

Distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Gansu and Tibet in China; grows in thickets at an altitude of 400-3200 meters. Distributed in India and Nepal.

Shrubs, 1.5-2.5 meters high, with horizontally spreading branches, twigs quadrangular or four narrowly winged, young branches sparsely pubescent, later becoming glabrous, often purple, old branches purple-brown, with prominent round protruding lenticels; bud scales membranous, ovate or ovate-triangular, 1-2 mm long, purple-red, glabrous.

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The fruit is spherical, and the petals become fleshy and enlarged during the fruiting period, wrapping around the fruit. When ripe, they turn from red to purple-black, with a diameter of 4-6 mm; the seeds are ovate-oblong.