In the past, mulberry leaves were only eaten by silkworms, and people could only eat mulberries. But now, mulberry leaves have really become a kind of food for people. More precisely, mulberry leaves have become a kind of food. 20 14 for the first time, someone cooked a dish with the tender buds of mulberry leaves, which was loved by many people because of its delicious taste. Mulberry bud was called mulberry bud, and mulberry bud began to walk slowly to the table.
The most common way to eat mulberry buds is to wash them, blanch them with hot water to remove bitterness, cut them into small pieces and mix them with flour, which can be steamed into vegetable cakes, steamed buns or fried.
Mulberry buds are common, but they really have many benefits. Mulberry leaf is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine with great medicinal value in ancient times, which has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials. But when it is used as a medicinal material, it is usually dried mulberry leaves, especially frosted mulberry leaves, which have the best efficacy, not fresh leaves.
So in general, mulberry leaves can be regarded as something with the same origin of medicine and food, but I believe that for many people, eating mulberry leaves is still a rare thing!
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Mulberry is an economic plant planted in ancient times, but it is not common. There are treasures everywhere, especially the frosted mulberry leaves.
Mulberry leaves are collected from mulberry trees, and the most common use is to feed silkworms. In ancient times, farmers were advised to teach mulberry and encourage farming. Nowadays, mulberry leaves are all collected and eaten, and thorns are really unheard of. The most common use is medicine. Mulberry is actually just a kind of medicinal material. Its roots, bark, branches and leaves, and mulberry seeds can all be used as medicine, and mulberry leaves are more common.
Mulberry leaves used as medicine are old leaves, which generally do not need tender leaves, but it is better to scrub the old mulberry leaves, and the old leaves should be dried and reused. The ancient books such as Ben Feng Jing Yuan, Ben Herbal Medicine, Ben Cao Meng, Ben Herbal Classic all recorded the use of mulberry leaves as medicine.
Many strange things are eaten by people as food, such as nettles, peppers, bedbugs and so on. In recent years, some people have picked the tender buds of mulberry trees as food, which is euphemistically called "medicated diet". In fact, this is not grandstanding. Mulberry buds are very nutritious and popular in some places. They are called mulberry bud or Mulberry Leaves. They can be mixed with flour pancakes or steamed bread like acacia flowers, and can also be used as cold dishes or hot pot.
With the development of economy, many behaviors began to "feed back". What was once "the most annoying thing" has now become the object of everyone's "pursuit". Everything used to be the first panic, but now I can't wait to avoid it. There are mulberry trees in every rural area. As people who grew up in the countryside, they have stories with mulberries, or raise silkworms to make money, or climb trees to eat mulberries. Mulberry is the "treasure tree" of rural families, which can not only maintain the livelihood of a family, but also bear rich fruits. Mulberry is famous for its delicacy. Mulberry, which I used to eat when I was a child, is now sold as fruit in the city, and the price is not cheap. I passed a fruit shop in the morning, and it was as high as 15 yuan/kg. I secretly praised: forget it, it is so expensive to sell.
People "feed back" because it was common to eat mulberries before. Have you seen mulberry leaves? Some people may be surprised that it is obviously something that silkworm babies eat. Are sperm-eating humans not even letting go of silkworm babies' food? As a rural person, sometimes I don't understand this kind of behavior in this world. Not only mulberry leaves, rural purslane, sweet potato vines, dandelion and so on are very common, but even weeds fed to pigs have become sought-after "game". However, since some people eat mulberry leaves, it is definitely valuable, and they will not stop eating mulberry leaves because they are hungry. Do you know the value of mulberry leaves?
In fact, the surprising behavior of eating mulberry leaves is not without reason. Mulberry leaf itself is also a kind of medicinal material, which can be used as medicine after drying, especially after frosting. Has the effects of dispelling pathogenic wind, clearing away heat, clearing lung-heat, moistening dryness, clearing liver-fire and improving eyesight. Many classical expositions in ancient times were recorded in detail, such as Wrong Materia Medica, New Materia Medica, Ying Materia Medica, etc., all of which gave high evaluation to mulberry leaves. Therefore, from a medical point of view, mulberry leaves have great value and can be used to treat corresponding diseases.
In addition, tender mulberry leaves are also a delicious source of tea and wild vegetables. My uncle, who is doing some small business in the city, goes home at this time every year, picks mulberry leaves at the door of my grandmother's hometown and takes them back to make tea or soup. It is said to be effective for virtual fire caused by dry weather. After a while, my uncle will come back to pick lotus leaves and go back to dry and make tea. Of course, in addition to making tea and soup, some people even eat it directly in cold salad or stir-fry, but mulberry leaves are bitter and not everyone can eat them. You can try if you don't believe me. Therefore, many seemingly insignificant things in rural areas actually have great functions and values.
When it comes to mulberry leaves, the first thing that comes to mind is nibbling. Then the silkworm baby is actually an insect of Bombycidae, the main source of silk raw materials. It is a very delicate animal, so it has extremely high requirements for food. Mulberry leaves, as the main food of silkworms, must not be sprayed with pesticides before picking, otherwise our silkworm babies will die.
Friends who have raised silkworm babies know that the life of silkworm babies is only 20 days, and every day in these 20 days is the same. Almost every time you go to see them, they are eating mulberry leaves with relish and eating fat, which shows that mulberry leaves are rich in nutrition.
According to China Pharmacopoeia, mulberry leaves are sweet, bitter and cold, and enter the lung and liver meridians. Dispelling wind and clearing heat, clearing lung and moistening dryness, clearing liver and improving eyesight. Therefore, frosted mulberry leaves are also blindly Chinese medicine.
With the development and progress, modern people pay more and more attention to health preservation. Of course, more people choose to eat mulberry leaf vegetables, use mulberry leaf powder to make cakes and steamed bread, and use mulberry leaf tea instead of green tea.
My family and I have personally experienced that drinking mulberry leaf tea for a long time has a certain effect on fading spots, lowering blood fat, lowering blood sugar and relaxing bowels, but it is not so immediate. In addition, mulberry leaves are cold, so it is best to consult a doctor when eating mulberry leaves.
The above is just a personal opinion. Welcome to the comments.
Mulberry leaves, the dry leaves of mulberry, are the main food of silkworms, also known as "silkworm leaves". It is shaped like a fan, with a slightly sharp top, serrated edges and a heart-shaped bottom.
As a traditional Chinese medicine, mulberry leaves picked after first frost in late autumn can only be used as medicine. If mulberry leaves are harvested in spring and summer, the curative effect will be greatly reduced or even no curative effect, so the prescription of traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes "frost mulberry leaves"
Mulberry leaves, bitter and cold in nature, have many effects. Chinese medicine says that it can "dispel wind and clear heat, clear lung and moisten dryness, calm liver yang, clear liver and improve eyesight" and can treat many diseases. But there is no mention of night sweats and metrorrhagia. When we study Chinese medicine, we will find a phenomenon that blind use of Chinese medicine can usually treat many diseases. There are many kinds of Chinese medicines for one disease, which brings us some difficulties in learning and memory, but we don't know which Chinese medicine to choose when treating diseases. However, if we can grasp the mystery behind the action of drugs, we can simplify the complex and use it freely.
Mulberry is as good as tea. In spring, walnuts, elms, elm leaves, elm bark and locust trees can be steamed to eat rice. Mulberry leaves can also be eaten as vegetables and leaves, and it is also a traditional Chinese medicine for resolving phlegm and reducing fire. I have been drinking mulberry leaves, nutmeg leaves, cypress leaves, pine needles and Ligustrum lucidum tea for many years.
There are large areas of mulberry trees in the backyard of Huayin base of the Fourth Medical University. I was almost fifty years old ten years ago. I climb mulberry trees all year round, and see Huashan Mountain in the south, which is connected with other Qinling Mountains, fluctuating, watching the shapes of birds and beasts on the top of the mountain, and watching the blue sky and white clouds floating by.
Watching trapezoidal courtyards crisscross the barren beach, and then watching the surging fairy jade water gush out and rush along the river wrapped in rocks. The stones left in a river are scattered in the river in white circles polished by the rolling water. Usually, they go swimming in the swimming pool in summer and pick up stones in winter.
Looking at the north and outside the wall, the old farmers know that they are working hard in the fields, and the mountains in the south can't see anything, and they are also tired of aesthetics.
Mulberry leaves germinate and are picked and fed to silkworms in Weihe River, an endless plain beach in the north. When the silkworm grows up, it spins the silk into pupa, puts it in a square box, and spits out the silk pieces to make clothes, quilts and prayer flags.
In a few days, green mulberries will grow, and you will eat red, purple and black.
Sleeping on the fork in the middle of mulberry trees, it is not easy to think about the future and recall the past today and spend a leisurely time waiting for retirement.
Steamed rice with mulberry leaves is sticky, chewy, fragrant and memorable.
Why do people start eating mulberry leaves now? What's the use of eating this thing?
Mulberry is a kind of tree native to China. Since ancient times, mulberry leaves have been famous for raising silkworms, producing silk and eating mulberries. Good question. Why do people eat mulberry leaves now? What's the use? Let me talk about this problem.
In the past, people knew that mulberry leaves were used for sericulture and medicine, but in the process of studying the value of mulberry leaves in modern times, it was found through experiments that mulberry leaves contained a lot of nutrients needed by the human body, mainly ketones, amino acids, polysaccharides, vitamins, organic acids, fibers, phenols, steroids and other substances. These substances are beneficial to human health, so it is reasonable and not surprising that people pick the tender leaves and buds of mulberry trees to eat.
The eating method of mulberry leaves is mainly to clean the tender leaves and buds picked home and blanch them to make cold dishes, cakes, soups, cakes and mulberry leaf tea. What needs to be reminded here is that mulberry leaves contain some medicinal functional substances, so you should eat less when eating, and then you must blanch them before cooking, so that they are delicious and refreshing.
Of course, mulberry leaves have other uses, so I won't go into details here.
Mulberry leaves are cold, so don't eat more. Eat a little imitation occasionally! Frosted mulberry leaves are compatible with chrysanthemum, and Sangju drink is used to treat colds.
I really remember raising silkworms when I was a child. I remember when I was in primary school. At that time, many people kept silkworms on the table in spring. A piece of paper is made into a small box with several silkworms in it. At that time people often brought mulberry leaves to feed silkworms.
I never thought that people could eat mulberry leaves before. I ate mulberries when I was a child. After eating, my mouth is red and black. But mulberries are still delicious.
Not to mention mulberry leaves, I feel that all kinds of grass and leaves can be eaten. Now there are a lot of wild vegetables on the internet, and I feel there is nothing I can't eat.
However, mulberry leaves are really edible. Although we didn't eat mulberry leaves before, we did have mulberry leaf tea, which used to be drunk by the elderly in rural areas. At that time, some old people in the countryside used mulberry leaves to make tea. Of course, some people now use mulberry leaves to cook. I tried this myself, stir-fried and cold. Mulberry leaves are edible, but the taste may not be as good as many people say.
The advantages of mulberry leaves are there. Mulberry leaves can clear liver and improve eyesight, diminish inflammation and reduce swelling, clear lung heat, lower blood sugar and soothe the nerves, and so on. So eating mulberry leaves still has many benefits. For example, there are mulberry leaves in the traditional Chinese medicine treatment plan for influenza A (H7N9).
I have even seen restaurants, hot pots, mulberry health food restaurants, farmhouses and so on with the theme of mulberry leaves on the Internet before. It can be seen that mulberry leaves have indeed been gradually accepted by people.
However, the benefits of mulberry leaves are there, and you can't eat more. Eating too much still has some influence. Eating mulberry leaves will affect physical fitness, leading to physical weakness and listlessness. For some people with weak spleen and stomach, eat less.
Many things happen in the world: uniform periodicity. Since modern times, people have eaten flour and rice, so it is appropriate to mix miscellaneous grains. Modern life refers to the past and seeks the original elements, thus becoming a reality. People pick wild vegetables and eat more or less salt-free vegetables, forming a scientific concept. Rural people envy the life of urban people and are already overwhelmed. The extremely green mulberry leaves are the green food of human beings, whether they will fall like the sky.