I believe that most people have raised silkworms when they were young, so everyone must be familiar with mulberry leaves. Mulberry leaves are not only food for silkworms, but also have many medicinal effects. Let's get to know the value and use of mulberry leaves together today.
Mulberry Leaf, which is a kind of mulberry leaf of Moraceae, is also called mulberry tree, yellow mulberry leaf, domestic mulberry leaf, Jing mulberry leaf, etc. It is the food of silkworm. Mulberry is widely planted in all parts of China, and the output of mulberry leaves is relatively high.
Mulberry leaves are broadly oval, with slightly pointed tips and serrated edges. The old leaves are thick and dark green, and the young leaves are thin and yellow-green. Mulberry leaves smell light and taste slightly bitter. Mulberry leaves have the effects of dispersing wind and heat, clearing liver and improving eyesight, clearing lung and moistening dryness.
First, the function of mulberry leaves:
(1) Anticoagulant effect.
Experts found that the extract from mulberry leaves can obviously prolong the coagulation time of whole blood in mice, and can also prolong the activated partial thromboplastin time, thrombin time and prothrombin time of rabbit plasma, indicating that mulberry leaves have anticoagulant effect.
(2) hypotensive effect.
Mulberry leaves contain rutin, quercetin, quercitrin and quercetin. -Aminobutyric acid. Rutin can constrict blood vessels, while quercetin can dilate coronary vessels and improve myocardial circulation. ? -Aminobutyric acid can not only promote the metabolism of body tissues and restore the cell function, but also improve the blood flow in the body and promote the blood pressure to drop.
(3) antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects.
Mulberry leaf juice has a good inhibitory effect on most Gram bacteria and some yeasts. Rutin in Mulberry leaf can effectively prevent the development of conjunctivitis, otitis externa and pulmonary edema, and has a strong anti-inflammatory effect.
(4) Anti-fatigue and anti-aging effects.
Quercetin, phenolic compounds and vitamin C contained in mulberry leaves can inhibit and scavenge free radicals to prevent oxidative damage of cells, thus achieving the effects of anti-aging and stabilizing nervous system function.
(5) Improve intestinal function, moisten intestines and relieve constipation.
Mulberry leaves can inhibit the growth of harmful bacteria, improve constipation, regulate intestinal tract, improve abdominal fullness, induce diarrhea, protect intestinal mucosa and reduce the occurrence of some acute abdomen.
II. Medicinal use of mulberry leaves:
(1) Treating wind-heat cold, headache and cough.
Mulberry leaves are sweet and cold, which is good for cooling wind and heat, and can also clear lung and relieve cough. Therefore, it is often used to treat wind-heat cold or incipient epidemic febrile disease, warm pathogen invading the lung, body fever, headache and cough, etc. It is often taken together with forsythia, chrysanthemum and almond, such as Sangxing decoction, with mulberry leaves, gardenia peel, fragrant black beans, oyster shell and pear peel each 3g and almond peel 4.5g
(2) Treating lung heat and dry cough.
Mulberry leaves are sweet and cold, benefit yin, cool and moisten lung dryness, so they can be used to treat lung injury caused by dry heat, dry cough and less phlegm. People with mild symptoms can use the above-mentioned Sangxing decoction, and patients with severe conditions can take it together with gypsum, Ophiopogon japonicus and Ejiao, such as Qingzao Jiufei decoction. Take 9g of Mulberry Leaves, 8g of Gypsum Fibrosum, 3g of Glycyrrhrizae Radix, Semen Sesami, Colla Corii Asini and Folium Eriobotryae, 4g of Ophiopogon japonicus, 2g of Ginseng Radix and 2g of Almond, decoct them in water, and take them hot frequently.
(3) Treating dizziness.
Mulberry leaves taste bitter and cold, and have the effect of calming liver yang, so they can be used to treat hyperactivity of liver yang, headache and dizziness. They are often used together with chrysanthemum, concha Haliotidis and Radix Paeoniae Alba. Mulberry leaves, taken together with black sesame seeds, which have the effect of nourishing essence and blood, also have the function of treating the symptoms of liver yin deficiency and blurred eyes, that is, Sangma Pill, a honey pill made by drying mulberry leaves and black sesame seeds in the sun and grinding them into fine powder, and then kneading them with refined honey.
(4) Treating hematemesis and epistaxis (all symptoms of external bleeding in some parts not caused by trauma).
Mulberry leaves have the effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and can be used alone or together with other hemostatic drugs.
3. Don't drink mulberry leaves after soaking in water?
The nutritional value and efficacy of mulberry leaves are very surprising, which is extremely beneficial to health. Mulberry leaves are pure natural plants with little side effects. However, when taking it, there are also some precautions to understand. Let's take a look at the circumstances under which mulberry leaves are best not to be taken.
1. Mulberry leaves are cool and not suitable for taking during menstruation, otherwise it will easily affect women's health.
2. Drink more mulberry leaf water, which is easy to damage the essence and blood and cold the spleen and stomach, so everyone should drink it moderately, not too much and too much.
3. Taking mulberry leaf tea in excess on an empty stomach will directly pass through our kidney meridian, which is very harmful to the kidneys.
generally speaking, mulberry leaves are a very good natural medicine for treating diseases.