Does drinking water soaked with frost mulberry leaves have the effect of lowering blood sugar?

Frosted mulberry leaves are actually mulberry leaves. After being frozen, mulberry leaves have a good conditioning and health-care effect on the body. You can usually use frosted mulberry leaves to make tea, which has a certain effect on lowering blood sugar. For diabetic patients, it can achieve good conditioning effects. It has the effect of lowering blood sugar, dispelling wind and cold, and is also very good for protecting the liver.

1. Lower blood sugar

Frost mulberry leaves have the effect of inhibiting the rise of blood sugar. Its mechanism of action is related to the rich amino acids, cellulose, vitamins, minerals and various physiologically active substances (biological bases and polysaccharides) in frost mulberry leaves. The main functional substance is the DNA in mulberry leaves, which can inhibit the activity of α-glucosidase, thereby inhibiting and delaying the decomposition of starch and food into glucose and fructose, and significantly inhibiting the rise of blood sugar after eating.

2. Evacuate wind-heat

Used for wind-heat colds: In summer and autumn, people often catch colds due to external wind-heat, and the effect of frost mulberry leaves in dispersing wind-heat is very effective for wind-heat colds. At the same time, frost mulberry leaves also have the effect of preventing wind-heat colds.

3. Clear the liver and improve eyesight

Used for red and swollen eyes: In acute conjunctivitis, pseudoconjunctivitis and epidemic keratitis, there are usually symptoms of red and swollen eyes. At this time, the effect of frosted mulberry leaves in dispersing wind and heat will also play a good role. However, if the symptoms are serious, you still need to follow the doctor's advice when taking the medicine.

4. Antiperspirant

Zhu Danxi, a famous medical scientist in the Yuan Dynasty of my country, said in "Danxi's Heart Method": "Grind frosted mulberry leaves into powder and take it with rice water to stop night sweats." Later, Chen Qirui of the Qing Dynasty said in "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Use it instead of tea and take it regularly to stop sweating." The "it" here refers to the frosted mulberry leaves. It can be seen that people have been using the antiperspirant effect of frosted mulberry leaves since ancient times, and modern medicine has also proved the correctness of this effect.

5. Clear the lungs and moisten dryness

Used for dry cough: Some people will develop dry cough due to lack of lung fluid, resulting in symptoms such as hoarseness of the throat, repeated coughing but little sputum, thirst and dry skin. At this time, the sweet, cold and yin-benefiting effects of frost mulberry leaves in clearing the lungs and moistening dryness come in handy. If the symptoms are mild, it can be used together with almonds, adenophora, and Fritillaria. If the symptoms are severe, it can be used together with gypsum, donkey-hide gelatin, and Ophiopogon japonicus, the effect is very good.