Mulberry leaves were first recorded in "Shennong Ben Cao Jing", the ancients called it "immortal leaves".It is cold in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, and belongs to the liver and lung meridians, with the function of evacuating wind-heat, clearing the lungs and moistening dryness, calming the liver and brightening the eyes, cooling the blood and stopping bleeding.。

Mulberry leaves endowed with the nature of the four seasons, spring and summer of the mulberry leaf branches and leaves, with a cool dispersal of the nature of the flavor of the flat and soft. And after the frost picking of mulberry leaves, also known as frost mulberry leaves, its autumn gas astringent downward, so the frost mulberry leaves cool bitter cold, its gas sinking, more medicinal value.

Fresh mulberry leaves are fresh and tender in the mouth, more suitable for porridge and soup, with less bias, suitable for most people to eat; while frost mulberry leaves are often used as tea or clinical medicine after being picked and dried, with a wide range of efficacies-...

Mulberry leaves in water

1、Relieve wind-heat cold

Mulberry leaves asmedicine that disperses wind-heatIt is sweet and bitter in taste, cold in nature, and belongs to the lung and liver meridians, and its most notable effect is to evacuate wind-heat.Suffering from wind-heat cold, the first is to ease the wind, the second is to clear the heat, and the mulberry leaf has the effect of clearing the heat.It is also used to control the internal movement of liver wind and dispel wind evil, and is suitable for relieving wind-heat colds.

For relief of wind-heat colds, the most classic combination is the one created by Wu Jutong, a Chinese medicine thermologist.Sangju juice drinkIt is good for relieving wind-heat colds and the first signs of warm illnesses. The two together, nature are light and clear, have the power to promote the penetration, can evacuate the surface of the wind-heat, calm the liver and brighten the eyes, good at relieving wind-heat colds, the first signs of warm disease, can also relieve liver heat caused by the redness of the eyes, dizziness and other symptoms.

2、Relieve night sweating

Mulberry leaf removes cold and heat from sweating. --Shennong's Classic of the Materia Medica

Frosted mulberry leaves are very useful forRelief of night sweats in childrenThe effect is very obvious. Fu Qingzhu, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty, called it "a wonderful product to collect sweat".

On the frost mulberry leaves to slow down night sweats, the Southern Song Dynasty classic "Yijian Zhi" recorded a classic medical case: in Yanzhou mountain temple there is a traveler monk, the body is thin, weak, he sleeps every night with night sweats, and in the morning get up to find that the bedding and clothes are all wet, and this has been so for more than 20 years. Later, he traveled to a temple, was introduced to a good recipe, that is, the mulberry leaves after drying and grinding, every day to drink, the results of three days will stop the symptoms of night sweats.

The mechanism of frost mulberry leaves to stop sweating, because of its access to the autumn of the golden energy, so the nature of astringent; and it has a flat liver fire, dispersal of wind, so for the yin deficiency of internal heat, the liver meridian of wind effect of night sweating is particularly prominent.

Mulberry leaves are roasted and dried to be minced, and taken with rice drink in empty heart to stop night sweating. --Danxi Xinfa

Mulberry leaf infusion to stop sweating is effective when used alone or in combination with a drink.

• In the first method, mulberry leaves can be roasted and ground, and taken with rice soup every night before bedtime;
• The second method, you can shred mulberry leaves, add a little rock sugar, simmer and drink, cultivate the earth to generate gold, and the benefits of moistening the lungs.

3、Relieve gray hair loss

Mulberry leaves get the spring qi, so they have the nature of growth and development. And anger is on the gas, so the mulberry leaves are good atRegulating hair loss and graying caused by internal movement of liver wind. The cause of this type of condition is mostly due to hyperactivity of the liver yang caused by anger, whereby the yin does not control the yang.

Cure hair not long, mulberry leaves, hemp leaves, boiled slop bath, 7 times, can grow several feet. --Thousand Gold Formula

Mulberry leaf relieves hair loss and gray hair, can also be used with black sesame seeds and wolfberries, etc., which are beneficial to the kidneys to fill the essence and replenish the marrow.

4. Relief of eye diseases

Mulberry leaves have tonic properties and canNourishing the liver and kidneys, dispelling wind and brightening the eyes, relieving symptoms such as astringency and swelling of the eyes caused by deficiency of the liver and kidneys, tearing in the wind, dizziness and blurred vision.。

Mulberry leaves can relieve eye diseases, because there are many fine veins on its leaves, so its medicinal properties can reach the body veins. The liver opens the orifices of the eyes, and mulberry leaves can clear the fire of the liver and lungs, so for all the symptoms of the eyes have a relieving effect.

Mulberry leaves can be used alone, both warm drink, can also be used to soak the water warm wash eyes. At the same time can be added to black sesame seeds, cassia seeds, chrysanthemum and other drinks, the effect is good.

5, Relieve dizziness headache tinnitus

Mulberry leaves have wind dispelling properties and are especially suitable forDizziness and headache due to internal movement of Liver WindEtc.

In addition, mulberry leaves in water, alsoRelief of tinnitus due to inflammation of liver fireSymptoms.

Such symptoms are most often caused by anger, impatience, anxiety, and insomnia, and can therefore beDrink mulberry leaves with mulberriesIt has the effect of nourishing yin and blood, and can relieve symptoms such as heartburn, insomnia and nightmares.

6, relieve sore throat acne

In addition to frosted mulberry leaves, fresh, unfrosted mulberry leaves are equally effective. Because of its slightly calming nature, it can relieve cold and heat of unknownSore throat, coughIt has the benefits of dispersing lung qi, moisturizing the lungs and relieving cough.

In addition, because the lungs are in charge of the skin and hair, fresh mulberry leaves can relieve symptoms caused by heat in the lung meridian.Nasal sores, pimples, facial sores and other soresSymptoms.

The skin and fur are the channels for heat dissipation, while mulberry leaves have the function of pungent and cool to relieve the epidermis, which can help to promote the dissipation of heat and evil.

Mulberry leaves in water can be added with appropriate amount of honey, loquat leaves, honeysuckle and licorice to evacuate wind-heat and relieve dry cough.

Precautions for drinking mulberry leaves in water

When drinking mulberry leaves in water, you need to pay attention to the following points -

• Mulberry leaves are slightly cold in nature, so people with cold spleen and stomach and diarrhea should not drink too much;
• Pregnant women and menstruating women should not drink it;
• Do not drink on an empty stomach, do not drink too much on a regular basis, and do not drink for a long period of time.

Chinese medicine believes that fresh mulberry leaves have the effect of dispelling wind and clearing heat, clearing the liver and brightening the eyes. When suffering from wind-heat cold, if there are symptoms of body fever and cough, you can use fresh mulberry leaves to decoct water to drink as tea, which can clear the heat. Moreover, mulberry leaves are flat in nature and can be used as a daily drink for people who are not sick.

Mulberry leaves also have some therapeutic benefits for the prevention and treatment of diabetes.

In addition to boiling water for tea, there are other ways to consume fresh mulberry leaves - boiled egg with mulberry leaves. Practice: frost mulberry leaves 10-20g, 1 egg. Remove the shell of the egg, and mulberry leaves to cook soup, take after meals. 2 times a day, 1 week for a course of treatment. For hypertension has a better therapeutic effect.

In addition to fresh mulberry leaves, there are also many processed mulberry leaf products on the market. For example, mulberry leaf tea, which has a hypoglycemic effect, and mulberry leaf powder, which is added to foods such as noodles and ice cream. But this kind of food is available in Japan, but because it is used in particularly small quantities, it actually has very little medicinal effect.

In modern medicine, it is found that mulberry leaves have strong inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic coccus type B, diphtheria bacillus, anthrax bacillus, so it is also developed more in these years.

However, in Chinese medical philosophy, mulberry leaves are sweet and bitter in flavor and cold in nature. It is not suitable for people with cold body.

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Mulberry leaves, itself is a relatively common plant leaves, general life is mainly used to feed it to silkworm babies; but in fact, for us, mulberry leaves can also have a good role, mulberry leaves in life can be completely soaked in water to drink, but also can be cooked and eaten, on the one hand, the flavor of the aroma, by many people's favorites; on the other hand, the mulberry leaves are also rich in nutrients for the body itself is also a good supplement. A good supplement.

Mulberry leaves, in traditional Chinese medicine used in traditional Chinese medicine is classified in the relief of epidemics, in the body can play a major role in driving away cold and wind, moistening dryness and remove dampness; in addition, in the "lowering of sugar" there is also a good role; mulberry leaves contain more alkaloids, alkaloids do have a role in lowering glucose, but of course, in the experiments are only for sucrose and other disaccharide substances Of course, in the experiment, only on sucrose and other disaccharide substances caused by elevated blood glucose has a role, in addition to direct oral glucose caused by elevated blood glucose does not exist in the hypoglycemic effect.

For mulberry leaves, modern medicine has also carried out a lot of research on it, fresh mulberry leaves decoction can be some of the Staphylococcus aureus and other pathogenic microorganisms there is a good inhibition, for the regulation of human blood lipids there are also benefits.

From the Chinese medicine point of view, the mulberry leaf itself can also "cool the blood to stop bleeding", it can be treated because of the fire caused by nosebleeds and bleeding gums and other problems; boiled water with mulberry leaves, on the one hand, you can directly wash the eyes, to help remove the fire; in addition, you can also drink to moisturize the lungs and stop coughing.

The substance mulberry leaf, which is wild or cultivated in many parts of the country, is a good delicacy and is recommended to be consumed, both for its medicinal and nutritional value.

Of course, there is one thing we should pay attention to, even if it is a kind of food, it is just a kind of food, and there is no miraculous therapeutic effect, because it is not a drug, please look at it scientifically. As for diet, it is recommended to have a variety of foods and a balanced intake.

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Mulberry leaves are the leaves of the mulberry tree, mulberry leaves, in addition to being the favorite food of silkworms, but also commonly used as medicine, now many people are weak and have poor immunity, you can use mulberry leaves to make water to drink, not only to improve immunity, but also to prevent disease. Can resist cancer, can resist bacteria and viruses, its role is very powerful.

lit. lowering of the three highs (e.g. blood pressure)

Mulberry leaves contain a variety of alkaloids, amino acids, polysaccharides and other components, has a significant role in lowering blood sugar, blood pressure, blood lipids, etc., is very suitable for people with "three highs" to drink, has a very good health care.

for dizziness

Mulberry leaf tea can relieve the symptoms of liver yang dizziness, red eyes and faintness. Mulberry leaf tea has the ability to calm the liver yang, clear the liver and brighten the eyes, and can treat headaches caused by hyperactivity of liver yang, which can be brewed together with chrysanthemum and other heat-clearing herbs.

Diuretic to remove foot fungus

People who have foot odor can get rid of it effectively by soaking their feet in mulberry leaf tea water. The reason why mulberry leaf tea is able to reduce swelling is because the mulberry leaves have a hydrophilic effect, causing excess water to be drained from the cells in the body.

Treatment of wind-heat colds

Mulberry leaf belongs to the lung and liver meridians and has the effect of dispersing wind-heat, which is used to treat external wind-heat. Mulberry leaf tea can effectively relieve fever, headache and sore throat.

祛斑

Mulberry leaf tea can also be used for spot removal, face with pigmentation of women if the face with mulberry leaf tea wash three times a day, can make the plaque melanin shallow, for the removal of spots have a certain effect.

dispel heat in the lungs (TCM)

If you have symptoms of lung heat or dryness that injures the lungs such as cough with little sputum and dryness of the nose and throat, drinking mulberry leaf tea can effectively remove lung heat.

Indications for Mulberry Leaf Infusion

This product is suitable for people with abnormal glucose tolerance, light diabetes, type 2 diabetes and diabetes risk groups, type 1 diabetes, diabetes combined with hyperlipidemia, diabetic neuropathy and complications, cardiovascular and cerebral vascular disease of people's adjuvant therapy, more normal people's health care function.

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Frost season, nature's gift of nourishing Yin cough wonderful good medicine, other seasons can not be found!

I. Mulberry leaf in the eyes of Chinese medicine practitioners

II. Frost Festival

Third, frost plus mulberry leaves, perfect match

In the Qing Palace records of "Cixi Guangxu medical prescription selection," there is a flavor of Cixi clear heat to stop coughing tea replacement drink. Composition has chamomile 2 money, frost mulberry leaves 2 money, broad bark 1 money, loquat leaves 2 money (roasted, packet fried). Efficacy clear lung heat, stop coughing. You see, the old Buddha are drinking the formula, I think the efficacy should be good Oh.

Mulberry leaves have another very effective medicinal use - to stop sweating.

My mom has been diabetic for decades, and once I heard an old Chinese doctor say that using mulberry leaves in water can help control blood sugar and lower blood sugar levels. It was just after the frost, so we went to pick a lot of fat and fresh mulberry leaves, processed and cleaned them to make water to drink, and it did have some effect.

Mulberry leaves itself is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, as if a certain health care products inside also specifically launched for diabetic patients Mulberry what drink, which is also extracted from the active ingredients of mulberry leaves. In Chinese medicine human nature, the mulberry leaf has anti-inflammatory sterilization, clear the liver and brighten the eyes.

The reason why mulberry leaves can help diabetics control their blood sugar is because it contains a variety of amino acids, alkaloidal components, these alkaloids can help stabilize blood sugar levels and help lower sugar better.

We use mulberry leaves, preferably picked after the frost, this is what Chinese medicine said frost mulberry leaves, choose the leaves fat, thick, not those thin, bitten by insects. After picking back, wash, put in a cool place to air dry, you can make water to drink.

However, it should be noted that, although the mulberry leaf can help lower sugar, but after all, is not specifically for the treatment of diabetes drugs, and when drinking mulberry leaf water, in addition to pay attention to good hygiene and the right amount, remember not to just blindly stop the drug.

Mulberry leaf is a good medicine, and it is easy to pick and store. I used to use a cold medicine called "Mulberry and Chrysanthemum Cold Tablet", which is very effective in treating colds and flu, the main ingredients of which are mulberry leaves and chrysanthemum flowers. Mulberry leaves can not only raise silkworms, frost mulberry leaves is the northern "tea". The National Day back home, students home hospitality tea is mulberry leaf tea.

Mulberry leaf tea is effective in clearing heat and removing toxins, removing liver fire and brightening the eyes. Mulberry leaves are mainly paired with chrysanthemums, rehmannia, lotus root, and mint, and we usually choose two of them to boil in a pot for everyone to drink together. Call it a big pot of tea. It is very effective in preventing colds.

Mulberry leaves are usually picked at the time of frost. At this time of the year, mulberry leaves are highly potent, easy to pick, and do not have a green leafy flavor.

Drinking herbal tea is a family habit, drinking tea to replenish water with medicinal effects, a twofold. Now it is early winter season, people are easy to catch cold and flu. Our family has been drinking Mulberry Leaf, Reed Root and Peppermint Tea for several days in a row, with less sugar to protect the liver and good taste. The picture below shows the mulberry leaves and the big pot of tea I picked on the mountainside a few days ago.

I've been planning to go back to my hometown one weekend after the frost, and pick some mulberry leaves to dry or roast them to make tea!

When I was a child, there was a big, well-remembered mulberry tree in front of the village. Every year before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, under the tree gathered our countless laughter: sweet and sour mulberry I often eat from the green fruit to the whole black.

Mulberry leaves are silkworm baby food, can be enjoyed throughout the year, known as the 'king of plants', 'fairy grass' and other elegant name; even the silkworms pull the feces are called "silkworm sand", is also a good Chinese medicine; by the way, the heart has always been on the "mulberry chrysanthemum pillows" love, and also have done one, even the mulberry bark is also used, really feel better than cotton, sponges and other raw materials. Have also done a, even the mulberry tree bark is also used, really think than cotton, sponge and other raw materials much better ...... All such, see the mulberry leaf nutrients, medicinal value of the high, it is worth recommending to everyone!

Recommended reason 1: delay aging

The Compendium of Materia Medica has a record that says: 'The spirit of Sang Minxing is also, people eat the old man as a child.' --Haha, exaggerated it, but also can return to the old man to return to the child? Don't believe it, in fact, mulberry leaves are rich in amino acids, cellulose, vitamins, minerals and flavonoids and other physiologically active substances, is a very good Chinese medicine and health food, and very antioxidant, anti-aging effect. Therefore, middle-aged and elderly people can take it as a tea, if you feel the taste is slightly bitter, can be appropriate to add some honey or sweet red dates, or directly add some brown sugar can also be.

Reason #2: Blood Sugar Control

Chinese medicine, often drink mulberry leaf tea, can improve the body's insulin secretion, and mulberry leaves almost no calories, for the diabetic population, really is a good dietary supplement, combined efforts to control blood sugar. The new favorite of the diabetic population

Reason for Recommendation 3: Increase Qi and replenish blood

If the fresh mulberry leaves are just picked in the spring, they can also be stir-fried as a vegetable on the dinner table. The most valuable thing is that the mulberry leaves are rich in chlorophyll, it has the efficacy of blood and gas, but also in the detoxification is also very powerful, that is, laxative - so, for people with gout, the appropriate drink of mulberry leaf water is beneficial.

Recommendation reason 4: Scooping out the wind to dissipate heat

Mulberry leaves are cold and sweet in nature, containing the efficacy of dispersing wind and heat, clearing the lungs and removing dryness, making it a good choice for certain people who are prone to fire in the fall and winter and who have a lot of lung heat. If the symptoms are more serious, you can also join hands with honeysuckle, chrysanthemum or peppermint, as well as Chinese bellflower, and so on, and drink the water together. However, if the cold body, often drink mulberry leaves in water, may aggravate their own conditions, and even gastrointestinal discomfort, diarrhea, vomiting and so on - so, certain people consume the best to take it easy.

Li Shangyin wrote a poem: "The silk worm is not exhausted until it dies, and the wax torch turns into ashes and the tears begin to dry up." This poem has been passed down for thousands of years, and even in modern times, people still recite it with that mournful and poignant tone. When we sing the praises of the silkworm, we sometimes neglect the person who spits out silk for it - the mulberry leaf. Ancient words of the mulberry language, such as "a sea of mulberry fields", "the mulberry has not fallen, its leaves Wor as" and so on, has always been the image of the expression of the ancients. In agriculture, the mulberry leaf is a facilitator, they can be used as the silkworm's food, to help the silkworm spit out beautiful silk thread, so that people in ancient times to have a shelter. Of course. The value of mulberry leaves goes beyond that. Mulberry leaves are rich in dietary fiber, flavonoids, minerals, and other substances, and cooked with good taste, is a must-have on many people's tables.

In addition to this, mulberry leaves also have medicinal value and play a lot of usefulness to the human body, now we will see about the benefits of mulberry leaves.

Benefits of Mulberry Leaves

1. Clearing heat

The medicinal value of mulberry leaves was discovered by healers as early as ancient times and used to regulate health conditions. The first benefit of mulberry leaves is the effect of clearing wind-heat. When the body has a cold, cough, headache, eyes become red due to wind-heat, then drink a cup of tea made of mulberry leaves, can relieve the symptoms of physical discomfort. It can even relieve the redness of the eyes caused by liver fire.

2. Prevention of constipation

Mulberry leaves are rich in dietary fiber, can promote intestinal peristalsis, with laxative effect, can help the body to improve constipation, can also help prevent constipation.

3. Anti-inflammatory

According to modern hospital research, substances contained in mulberry leaves can carry out anti-inflammatory and treat inflammation.

4. Cleansing the liver and improving eyesight

Mulberry leaves in can nourish yin and brighten the eyes, and can treat red eyes and blurred vision.

5. Clearing the lungs and moistening dryness

The medicinal value of mulberry leaves is also shown in clearing lungs and moisturizing dryness. When someone in your family has a lung-heat and dry cough, you may want to try mulberry leaves.

In short, the small mulberry leaves are not simply edible in our eyes, it contains the value of more attention.

When it comes to mulberry leaves, everyone's reaction is that it is food for silkworms. At the same time, mulberry leaves are an herb that is so effective that people who are raw can use it to soak in water.

Benefits of Mulberry Leaf Infusion:

1. Mulberry leaves soaked in water has the effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Blood heat and vomiting blood, with mulberry leaves 30 grams of water decoction, or other cold blood to stop bleeding medicine.

2. Evacuation of wind-heat, mulberry leaves in water for wind-heat colds and eye redness and swelling, often with chrysanthemum.

3. Clear the lungs and moisten the dryness, mulberry leaf infusion is suitable for lung heat and cough, bitter and cold to clear lung heat, sweet and cold yin, cool lung dryness, used for dry and hot lung injury, dry cough with little phlegm, light can be equipped with almonds, salvia, shellfish, etc., mulberry soup, etc.; Heavy, can be used with gypsum, maitake, gelatin, and other effects.

4. Clearing the liver and improving eyesight, leaf infusion is used for wind-fire eye diseases. Use black sesame name sangma pill for dizziness and blurred vision caused by liver yin deficiency and liver yang phlegm.

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