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Does Mulberry really have many functions?
According to legend, Wang Mang chased Liu Shi. One day, Liu Xiu got lost in the forest to avoid her pursuers. He is thirsty and hungry. Suddenly, he saw a tree bearing many red and black fruits. After eating it, he felt particularly comfortable. After he ascended the throne, he issued an imperial decree and made mulberry trees king. However, the guards were particularly tired of looking for the tree, so they gave it to Toona sinensis in a hurry. There was a saying behind it that mulberry trees were uncrowned kings.

Since it is the king of mulberries, the efficacy of mulberries will certainly not be too little!

Mulberry (sāng shèn), also known as Mulberry, is the ear of mulberry, a mulberry plant of Moraceae, and a mature fruit of mulberry. Also known as Mulberry, Mulberry, Jujube, Mulberry Fruit, Mulberry Bubble, Black Ginseng, etc. Farmers like to eat their ripe fresh fruits, which are sweet and juicy and are one of the fruits that people often eat. Mulberries are harvested from April to June every year when the fruits are ripe, and impurities are removed. Sun-dried or slightly steamed for eating, or soaked in wine for eating. The specific maturity time varies from place to place, with the south being earlier and the north being later. Mature mulberries are oily, sweet and sour, especially large, thick, purple and full of sugar.

The medicinal value and usage of mulberries are expounded in Compendium of Materia Medica and many other medical classics. Mulberry tastes sweet and cold, and has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, promoting fluid production and moistening dryness, and nourishing the purpose of invention. Mulberry fruit is a kind of fresh fruit commonly used by the people for diuresis, health care and summer heat, and its special effect is recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica.

"Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" holds that "Mulberry is beneficial to kidney and solid essence, and it can improve eyesight after long-term service";

"Living Diet Spectrum" also says "Mulberry, nourishing liver and kidney, enriching blood, walking healthily, stopping deficiency wind and clearing deficiency fire";

In the Classic of Materia Medica, "Mulberry is a medicine for cooling blood, enriching blood and benefiting yin".

Now that mulberries are on the market, seasonal fruits are not only delicious, but also nourishing the body and mind.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Mulberry is sour, sweet, cold, nontoxic, enters the heart, liver and kidney meridians, and has the functions of tonifying kidney and nourishing liver, nourishing yin and blood, blackening beard and hair, promoting fluid production and moistening dryness, caring skin and resisting aging, nourishing heart and calming nerves. Mulberry is black and reddish. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that black enters the kidney and red enters the heart, so it has the functions of tonifying kidney, consolidating essence, blackening hair, nourishing blood and nourishing yin, moistening dryness and promoting fluid production, calming the heart and calming the nerves.