Mulberry Enhances Yang: Optimal Pairings
Apr 18, 2025
Source: Cainiu Health
Dr. Zhang Xiuhong
Introduction
Both ingredients enter the liver and kidney meridians. Mulberry fruit nourishes yin and supplements the blood, while Chinese wolfberry (Lycium barbarum) replenishes the kidney and benefits essence. When consumed together, they can nourish the yin of the liver and kidney, seeking yang within yin, thus helping to improve symptoms such as weakness and soreness in the lower back and knees, impotence, and premature ejaculation caused by yin deficiency of the liver and kidney. Long-term regular consumption can achieve certain yang-enhancing effects. Mulberry fruit nourishes yin, whereas epimedium (Yinyanghuo) is a traditional yang-enhancing herb that warms the kidney, strengthens yang, and fortifies the tendons and bones.
There is no such thing as the "best pairing for mulberry fruit to enhance yang," but common pairings for enhancing yang with mulberry fruit include wolfberry (Lycium barbarum), epimedium, cistanche, cuscuta, and psoralea.
1. Wolfberry: Both mulberry fruit and wolfberry enter the liver and kidney meridians. Mulberry fruit nourishes yin and enriches blood, while wolfberry benefits the kidneys and nourishes essence. When used together, they can nourish the yin of the liver and kidneys, seeking yang within yin, helping to improve symptoms such as soreness and weakness of the waist and knees and impotence and premature ejaculation caused by yin deficiency of the liver and kidneys. Long-term consumption can achieve a certain effect in enhancing yang.
2. Epimedium: Mulberry fruit nourishes yin, while epimedium is a traditional Chinese herb that warms and tonifies kidney yang, strengthening tendons and bones. When used together, they can replenish both yin and yang, nourishing kidney yin while warming kidney yang, effectively regulating sexual dysfunction and cold intolerance caused by kidney yang deficiency.
3. Cistanche: Cistanche has the functions of warming kidney yang, enriching essence and blood, moistening the intestines, and relieving constipation. Combined with mulberry fruit, it can warm kidney yang on the basis of nourishing kidney yin, enhancing kidney function, improving conditions such as impotence, premature ejaculation, and infertility caused by kidney yang deficiency, while also moistening the intestines to avoid excessive heat accumulation from over-nourishing.
4. Cynomorium: Cynomorium functions to warm kidney yang and enrich essence and blood. When used with mulberry fruit, it can balance yin and yang, nourishing kidney yin while warming kidney yang, helping to improve sexual function and symptoms such as weak waist and knees and sexual dysfunction caused by kidney yang deficiency, achieving the effect of strengthening yang and consolidating essence.
5. Cuscuta: Cuscuta can benefit the kidneys, enrich essence, nourish the liver, and improve vision. When used with mulberry fruit, it works synergistically on the liver and kidneys, nourishing liver and kidney yin while warming kidney yang, improving conditions such as seminal emission, premature ejaculation, and infertility caused by liver and kidney insufficiency and kidney yang deficiency, thereby achieving the purpose of enhancing yang.
Each person's constitution and health condition is different, so their responses to food or herbs may vary. Therefore, adjustments should be made according to individual constitution and health condition. Maintaining good living habits, regular sleep patterns, moderate exercise, balanced diet, etc., all help maintain kidney health and enhance yang.
