<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<record type="herb" updated="2026-09-18T16:34:43.84944+00:00">
  <source>Bencao Index</source>
  <source-url>https://bencaoindex.com/</source-url>
  <canonical>https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/sang-bai-pi/</canonical>
  <licence>Free to use and republish with visible attribution and a link back to the source page. The catalogue is a reference work and is knowingly incomplete; nothing in it is medical advice.</licence>
  <attribution-html>&lt;a href=&quot;https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/sang-bai-pi/&quot;&gt;Bencao Index&lt;/a&gt;</attribution-html>
  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">sang bai pi</name>
    <name type="chinese">桑白皮</name>
    <name type="latin">Cortex Mori</name>
    <name type="english">Mulberry Root Bark</name>
    <name type="japanese">sohakuhi</name>
    <name type="korean">sangbaekpi</name>
  </names>
  <channels>
    <channel>Lung</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Drains Lung Heat, stops cough and calms wheezing</summary>
      <indication>Lung Heat with cough, wheezing, fullness of the chest or coughing of blood</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Promotes urination and reduces edema</summary>
      <indication>Lung Heat blocking the Lungs&apos; descending function, so that water stops moving and sweating ceases: puffy face and arms, edema of the floating type, fever, thirst, difficult urination and a floating pulse</indication>
      <indication>Edema of the whole body, or water collecting in the Lungs</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Lowers blood pressure</summary>
      <indication>Hypertension</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
