What are the similarities and differences between mulberry bark and lepidium seed in efficacy and clinical application?

Similarities: cold nature, belonging to lung meridian, can purge lung, relieve asthma, induce diuresis and reduce swelling. Both of them are products of clearing away lung heat and benefiting water. Both can be used to treat cough and asthma, edema and dysuria.

Differences: ① Mulberry bark: sweet in taste, cold in nature, focusing on purging lung fire, purging lung moisture to relieve asthma, mainly indicating lung heat, cough and asthma, and yellow and sticky phlegm. Moreover, it has a slow effect of promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, and is often used to treat positive water syndromes such as skin water and geomantic omen. In addition, this product has the functions of stopping bleeding, clearing away liver heat and lowering blood pressure, and can also be used to treat epistaxis, hemoptysis, hypertension with hyperactivity of liver yang and hyperactivity of liver fire.

② miliaria: hard and cold, which is specially used for relieving asthma and cough at the level of purging lung, and diarrhea, mainly referring to excessive phlegm and saliva, cough and asthma can not lie flat, and secondary defecation is unfavorable. Moreover, it has a strong diuretic and detumescence effect, and is often used to treat pleural effusion and abdominal edema.