Can you drink mulberry leaves and dandelions together?

I believe many people are familiar with the plant called mulberry leaves. It is a food for feeding silkworms, but it is not just for feeding silkworms. After some processing, it can be eaten and has many benefits to the human body. It also has therapeutic effects on some diseases. Many people want to know whether this plant can be drunk with dandelions. So, can mulberry leaves and dandelions be drunk together?

First, can mulberry leaves and dandelions be drunk together? "Yi Lin Can Yao" points out: "Dandelion can transform heat and poison, resolve food poison, reduce swelling and nodules, and treat toxic breast abscesses. It has the effect of purging fire and stabilizing the earth. It can promote lactation and take shape. It strengthens teeth and removes Yangming heat." "Ben Cao Zheng Yi" also says: "Dandelion is cool in nature and can cure all sores, carbuncles, redness, swelling, heat and poison. It can be taken orally or applied, and it is quite effective. It is especially effective in treating breast abscesses, breast furuncle, redness, swelling and hard lumps. The fresh one can be mashed into juice and taken warm, and the dried one can be decocted and taken. It can also be cured by itself, and it is indispensable in the decoction prescription." Dandelion is sweet, cold, flat in nature, non-toxic, and has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, diuresis and dispersing nodules. It can treat acute lymphadenitis, acute bronchitis, hepatitis, etc. It has been proven in history that dandelion is a traditional heat-clearing and detoxifying medicine. According to clinical reports, there are about 40 kinds of infectious diseases that can be treated with dandelion injections. It is praised by the traditional Chinese medicine community as one of the "Eight Great Kings" of herbs with the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, and resisting infection. Modern pharmacological research shows that it has good antibacterial effects, especially can effectively inhibit Staphylococcus aureus and skin fungi, and has laxative and stomachic effects.

Second, the "Chinese Pharmacopoeia" states that mulberry leaves are sweet, bitter and cold. It enters the lung and liver meridians. Dispel wind-heat, clear the lungs and moisten dryness, clear the liver and improve eyesight. Used for wind-heat cold, lung heat and dry cough, dizziness, headache, red and blurred eyes. "Dictionary of Chinese Medicine" bitter, sweet, cold. Enters the lung and liver meridians. Dispel wind and clear heat, cool blood and improve eyesight. It is used to treat fever caused by wind-heat, headache, red eyes, thirst, lung heat cough, rheumatism, urticaria, and elephantiasis of the lower limbs. "Bencao Beiyao" says it can be used as a substitute for tea to relieve thirst. "Tang Materia Medica" says that the juice can be boiled in water to eliminate athlete's foot, edema, and benefit the large and small intestines. If you mix dandelion and mulberry leaves together and soak them in water to drink, what kind of "sparks" will be created?

Can you drink mulberry leaves and dandelions together? Dandelion roots can protect the liver, clear liver toxins, prevent liver damage, and enhance the liver's regeneration ability. It is the most important natural nutrient in many preventions of hepatitis C. Mulberry leaves have the effect of clearing away liver fire, and are very effective in treating redness and swelling of the eyes caused by liver fire. Numerous studies have shown that insulin resistance is closely related to inflammation. Dandelion contains broad-spectrum anti-inflammatory ingredients and is widely used in multi-system inflammatory-related diseases. Dandelion polysaccharides also have a certain blood sugar-lowering effect. Traditional Chinese medicine uses mulberry leaves as a traditional Chinese medicine to treat diabetes mellitus (diabetes in modern medicine) in clinical practice. The ancient Japanese book "Tea Drinking and Health Preservation" also records that mulberry leaves have the effect of improving "drinking water disease" (diabetes in modern medicine). Domestic and foreign research data confirm that biotin and polysaccharides are the main blood sugar-lowering components in mulberry leaves.