What are the uses of mulberry leaves

I believe everyone is very familiar with mulberry leaves. We often use mulberry leaves to feed spring silkworms. However, mulberry leaves are actually a kind of Chinese herbal medicine. We can use mulberry leaves to treat diseases, so you can learn about the effects of mulberry leaves. When we suffer from diseases, we can consider using mulberry leaves for treatment. Mulberry leaves have a good effect of clearing the liver and improving eyesight. Mulberry leaves have a very good effect in treating symptoms such as lung heat.

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.

1. Dispel wind-heat: used for wind-heat cold and red and swollen eyes, often with chrysanthemum.

2. Clear the liver and improve eyesight: used for eye diseases caused by wind and fire (such as acute conjunctivitis). It is made of Sang Ma Wan with black sesame seeds and is used to treat dizziness and blurred vision caused by liver-yin deficiency and liver-yang hyperactivity.

3. Clear the lungs and moisten dryness: Used for lung heat and dry cough: This product is bitter and cold, clears lung heat, sweet and cold, nourishes yin, cools and moistens dry lungs, so it can be used for dry heat damaging the lungs, dry cough with little sputum. In mild cases, it can be used together with almonds, adenophora, Fritillaria, etc., such as Sangxing Decoction; in severe cases, it can be used together with gypsum, Ophiopogon japonicus, donkey-hide gelatin, etc.

Functions of mulberry leaves:

1. Mulberry leaves are good at dispersing wind-heat and relieving lung heat. They are often used in combination with chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, mint, peucedanum, platycodon, etc. for exogenous wind-heat, headache, cough, etc. Mulberry leaves can not only be used to treat red eyes and photophobia caused by wind-heat, but also can clear liver fire. For red and swollen eyes caused by liver fire, it can be used in combination with chrysanthemum, cassia seed, plantain seed, etc. As for liver yin deficiency and blurred vision, mulberry leaves can also be used together with Ligustrum lucidum, wolfberry, black sesame, etc. which nourish the liver and kidneys.

2. Mulberry leaves are light and dispersing, and can disperse wind-heat, but the effect is weak. It is mainly used clinically to clear the lungs and liver, such as wind-heat attacking the lungs, cough with a lot of sputum, or dryness and heat damaging the lungs, dry cough without sputum; as well as wind-heat attacking the lungs or liver fire inflammation, red and swollen eyes, etc. It is a commonly used medicine. When combined with burdock seed and peucedanum, it can dispel wind and clear the lungs; when combined with gypsum and ophiopogon japonicus, it can clear dryness and moisten the lungs; when combined with chrysanthemum and cassia seed, it can clear the liver and improve eyesight.

3. Mulberry leaves have an antispasmodic effect.

4. Mulberry leaves have anti-pathogenic microorganism effects. In vitro tests showed that mulberry leaf decoction had a certain inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, beta-hemolytic Streptococcus, Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Escherichia coli. In addition, it can also kill Leptospira.

5. Mulberry leaves have anti-inflammatory effects.

6. Mulberry leaves have the effect of lowering blood sugar. The ecdysterone it contains has a hypoglycemic effect on increased blood sugar induced by various methods and can promote the conversion of glucose into glycogen, but does not change the blood sugar of normal animals.

7. Mulberry leaves can lower blood pressure. When mulberry leaf extract was injected into the femoral vein of anesthetized dogs, a temporary decrease in blood pressure occurred, but breathing was not affected.

8. Mulberry leaves have an effect on smooth muscles. They have an excitatory effect on the estrus uterus of animals and an inhibitory effect on the intestinal muscles of mice.

9. Mulberry leaves also have the effects of lowering blood lipids and promoting diuresis.

How to eat

In April when mulberry leaves are at their most luxuriant, pick some for later use. After the frost in October, when most of the leaves on the tree have fallen, some will remain on the branches. Those remaining leaves are called fairy leaves. Pick them, dry them in the shade together with the leaves picked before, and then cut them into thin strips. You can use them as a substitute for tea and soak them in water or boil them. It sounds simple and people may question its efficacy. Ge Yunmeng then used a specific case to prove the magic of the magic tea.

I have another recipe for women who love beauty, and this recipe also uses mulberry leaves. Put the mulberry leaves in a steamer and steam them to disinfect and remove impurities, then dry them and set aside. Then use 15 grams of this mulberry leaf as tea every day, brew it with boiling water and drink it. One month is a course of treatment. After one course of treatment, you can basically see that the chloasma on your face has faded. Continue to adhere to another course of treatment, and the degree of fading will be more significant.

The little mulberry leaves are so magical, they can not only make you slim and healthy, prolong your life, but also make you beautiful!

As we all know, mulberry leaves are the leaves of the mulberry tree, a plant of the Moraceae family. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mulberry leaves are bitter, sweet and cold in nature, and have the effects of dispersing wind and heat, clearing the liver and improving eyesight. However, recent studies have shown that mulberry leaves also have good skin beauty effects, especially for acne and brown spots on the face. Acne, commonly known as pimples, is an inflammatory skin disease common in young people.

After young men and women enter puberty, the level of sex hormones in their bodies increases, which causes the sebaceous glands to proliferate and hypertrophy. The sebaceous glands secrete more, leading to sebum accumulation, which blocks the openings of hair follicles. The increased sebum cannot be discharged in time, resulting in acne. The occurrence of acne is mainly due to endocrine changes during puberty, which leads to a relative increase in the secretion of male hormones compared to female hormones. However, high-fat, high-sugar diet and long-term constipation are important causes of acne. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that overeating greasy and spicy food will cause heat accumulation in the spleen and stomach and dampness, and external pathogens invading the skin will cause acne. Because mulberry leaves have the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying, some people tried to use mulberry leaf decoction to treat 258 cases of acne, and the effectiveness reached more than 89%. The specific method is to take 50 grams of fresh mulberry leaves every day, decoct them in water and take them three times. It usually takes 15 days to take effect. Some people use an appropriate amount of fresh mulberry leaves, mash them, and apply them to the acne for 30 minutes a day, and have achieved satisfactory results. As for using mulberry leaves to treat brown spots on the face, the specific method is: use 500 grams of commercially available mulberry leaves, sterilize them by steaming them in water, remove impurities, and set them aside after drying. Take 15 grams per day, soak in boiling water and drink as tea. Take for 30 days as a course of treatment. The figs you eat are its flowers. This inflorescence is called a syringa. It's not that figs have no flowers, but because their flowers are small and grow on the inner wall of the urn-shaped syringa receptacle, the flowers cannot be seen from the outside, hence the name. Because its fruit has a high sugar content, it is also called honey fruit.

Fig leaves, roots and fruits can all be used as medicine. The root disperses blood stasis, reduces swelling and stops diarrhea. It can cure muscle and bone pain, enteritis, and diarrhea. Dosage: 25-50 grams. The fruit moistens the lungs and relieves cough, clears away heat and promotes salivation, strengthens the spleen and stops diarrhea. Treat cough, asthma, sore throat, carbuncle and hemorrhoids. Dosage: 50-100 or 5-7 pcs. Apply appropriate amount externally and wash with decoction. Apply milk externally to remove warts.

Additional recipe:

1. Treat rheumatism, numbness, and pain in muscles and bones. Fig roots or fruits can be stewed with meat or boiled with eggs.

2. To treat diarrhea, take 5-7 figs, decoct in water; or chop 100 grams of fresh fig leaves, add brown sugar, stir-fry and grind into powder, then take with boiled water.

3. To treat dry cough and chronic cough, take 15 grams of fig fruit, 25 grams of raisins and 10 grams of licorice, decocted in water and taken orally.

4. To treat weak spleen and stomach and indigestion, cut dried figs into small pieces, fry until half-burnt, add appropriate amount of white sugar, and brew with boiling water as a substitute for tea.

5. To treat itchy throat and sore throat, chop the fig root bark and soak it in boiling water; or decoct 7 figs and 25 grams of honeysuckle in water; or dry the figs, grind them into powder, and blow them into the throat.

6. To treat hemorrhoids, take 10-20 fig fruits, decoct them in water and drink; or take 100 grams of fresh fig leaves, decoct them in water and use for fumigation and washing.

7. To treat asthma, mash half a cup of fig juice and drink it with boiled water, once a day until the condition is cured.

8. To treat sores, carbuncles and swellings, take 15 grams of fig fruit, decocted in water or take it or use 60 grams of fresh fig roots and leaves, decocted in water and use it to fumigate and wash the affected area. Take an appropriate amount of fig root, mash it and apply it to the affected area.

Mulberry leaves have a wide range of uses. We must be good at using mulberry leaves to serve our health. The above article introduces in detail the various functions of mulberry leaves. I believe everyone should have mastered them. As long as we have mastered the functions of mulberry leaves, we can use mulberry leaves in many aspects.