Cold in the morning and evening, hot at noon, large temperature difference, easy to catch a cold. Because of the dry weather, when you catch a cold in autumn, you are prone to headache, dry mouth and nose, dry throat, cough without phlegm or less phlegm and sticky, and in severe cases, there are symptoms such as blood in phlegm.
Therefore, everyone should be targeted when choosing drugs to treat autumn dryness and cold. Products that are too spicy and warm and dry, such as ephedra and ginger, cannot be used. The key to treatment lies in the combination of clearing and moistening. Clearing profit and dryness can dispel fire and cure dryness, and clearing profit and dryness can cure autumn dryness and cold. One of the commonly used drugs is mulberry leaves.
Mulberry leaves are the leaves of Mulberry, a Moraceae plant. They are bitter and sweet, belonging to lung meridian and liver meridian. They have the effects of dispelling wind and clearing heat, clearing lung and moistening dryness. A medicine has the effect of moistening.
Mulberry leaves are also called immortal leaves in ancient books. The world's earliest pharmaceutical monograph Shennong Herbal Classic records: "Mulberry leaves dispel cold and heat sweat." Compendium of Materia Medica: "Treating fatigue and cough, improving eyesight and growing hair."
Modern pharmacological studies have found that mulberry leaves have a strong inhibitory effect on staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic cocci B, diphtheria Bacillus and anthrax Bacillus. In addition, phytodefensins in mulberry leaves have antibacterial effects. Chinese medicine believes that mulberry leaves are better after frost, and they can be collected and dried for later use, or they can be purchased directly from pharmacies.
How to use mulberry leaves
You can choose 30 grams of dried mulberry leaves to soak in water once a day, or you can make soup and tea with pear skins and almonds, which can not only prevent dry colds in autumn, but also preserve your health.
For lung diseases such as sore throat, cough and expectoration caused by lung injury caused by dry heat, as well as patients with acute and chronic pharyngitis and bronchitis, mulberry leaves can be mixed with Ophiopogon japonicus (2: 1 ratio) and soaked with water instead of tea, with remarkable effect.
In addition to tea health care, mulberry leaves are delicious, have no side effects and are rich in chlorophyll. Even if it is cooked, it can remain green for a long time and emit fragrance. Such as light and moist mulberry leaf lotus leaf porridge and mulberry leaf sweet potato porridge can dispel wind and clear heat, strengthen spleen and promote diuresis, lower blood pressure and clear fat.
Mulberry leaves and chrysanthemums are used as tea to prevent and treat exogenous wind-heat colds, and the effect is excellent. Mulberry leaves and Eucommia ulmoides leaves are also used as tea to treat low back pain caused by ischemic angina pectoris and kidney deficiency for many years.
On the basis of studying the chemical composition of mulberry leaves and animal experiments, modern medicine found that mulberry leaves have the functions of lowering blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, antibacterial, antiallergic, antioxidant, anti-aging, beauty, laxative and diuretic. Here is a brief introduction:
Mulberry leaf gouqi tea
Take 30 grams of fresh Lycium barbarum seedlings, 30 grams of fresh plantain and 60 grams of fresh mulberry leaves, and add appropriate amount of water to decoct them. Has diuretic and heat-clearing effects.
Mulberry leaf chrysanthemum tea
20 grams of dried mulberry leaves and 20 grams of dried chrysanthemum are taken as tea clothes, which can reduce the temperature of fever caused by warm pathogens and heat pathogens.
Sangju mung bean tea
20g of winter mulberry leaves, 0/5g of chrysanthemum/kloc-0, 60g of soybean and 30g of sugar are taken. This prescription has the functions of clearing liver-fire, improving eyesight, diminishing inflammation and dispelling wind and heat, and has a good curative effect on acute conjunctivitis and eye swelling and pain.
Mulberry Leaf Chrysanthemum hawthorn tea
Flos Chrysanthemi and Flos Lonicerae each 30g, Folium Mori 12g and Fructus Crataegi 15g, brewed with boiling water for 4 times, each time 10 ~ 15min instead of tea. Suitable for hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and arteriosclerosis.
In addition, there are mulberry leaf noodles, mulberry leaf biscuits, mulberry leaf buckwheat noodles and other series of foods. Mulberry leaf extract can also be used as a safety pigment for cakes, which is really useful and beneficial. In short, we might as well know more about mulberry leaves this autumn. It is really a rare and affordable health care product around us.
Mulberry leaves have many effects of preventing and treating diseases.
Mulberry leaf is the leaf of Mulberry, a Moraceae plant, which tastes bitter, sweet but cold, and enters the lung and liver meridians. Has that effect of expelling pathogenic wind, clear heat, cooling blood and improving eyesight. Treat wind-heat headache, red eyes and thirst, lung-heat cough, wind arthralgia, dermatitis, and elephantiasis of lower limbs.
Mulberry leaves are also called immortal leaves in ancient books. The earliest medical book in the world, Shennong Herbal Classic, records: "Mulberry leaves dispel cold and heat sweat." Compendium of Materia Medica: "Treating fatigue and cough, improving eyesight and growing hair." "Chongqing Tang Zawen" said, "Mulberry leaves can cure night sweats, but if they are taken with wind and heat, the lungs will be clear and the sweat will be relieved. Dispelling wind and removing headache, stopping gastrointestinal diarrhea, metrorrhagia due to liver heat, and diseases of prenatal education, especially due to liver heat. "
major constituent
According to modern research, dried mulberry leaves contain 25% ~ 45% of crude protein, 20% ~ 25% of carbohydrates and 5% of crude fat, and are rich in potassium, calcium, vitamin C, B 1, B2 and A, and various trace elements such as copper, zinc, boron and manganese. Mulberry leaves contain ecdysterone, lupinone, rutin, morin, vitamins, tapenic acid, folic acid, fumaric acid, racemic creatine, phytoestrogen and other substances needed by human body.
Each piece100g of dry mulberry leaves contains about 24.0g of crude protein, 5.0g of crude fat, 52.9g of dietary fiber and 2699mg of calcium. Mulberry leaves contain 18 kinds of amino acids needed by human body, including γ -aminobutyric acid 226mg, glutamic acid 2323mg and aspartic acid 2049mg, which shows that mulberry leaves are a treasure house of amino acids.
Efficacy of mulberry leaves
1. Hypoglycemia:
Mulberry leaves can inhibit the increase of blood sugar, and its mechanism is related to the rich amino acids, cellulose, vitamins, minerals and various physiologically active substances (alkaloids and polysaccharides) in mulberry leaves. The main functional substance is that the DNA in mulberry leaves can inhibit the activity of α-glucosidase, thus inhibiting and delaying the decomposition of starch and food into glucose and fructose, and obviously inhibiting the rise of blood sugar after eating.
2. Antibacterial activity: In vitro experiments showed that fresh mulberry leaves had strong inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic cocci B, diphtheria Bacillus and anthrax Bacillus. Phytodefensins in mulberry leaves have antibacterial effects.
3. Lowering blood pressure: The main effective component for lowering blood pressure is γ -aminobutyric acid.
4. Hypolipidemic: The main effective component is phytosterol.
5. Anti-oxidation and anti-aging:
The main functional components of these two effects are isoflavones. According to the four-year experiment conducted by the Institute of Clinical Pharmacology of Zhejiang University, it is confirmed that mulberry leaves have nourishing and anti-aging effects similar to ginseng. Ginseng is a hot tonic, and mulberry leaves are a clear tonic, which is suitable for all ages and all seasons.
6. Relieve menopausal syndrome: Mulberry leaves have the function of stabilizing the autonomic nervous system, which can alleviate the symptoms of emotional excitement and bad temper in the elderly during menopause.
7. Beauty
(1) treatment of chloasma:
Brown spots on the face often plague many women, and can be treated with mulberry leaves: take 500g of winter mulberry leaves, put them in water for cooking and disinfection, remove impurities, and dry them for later use. Take 15g daily, and brew with boiling water as tea. 1 month is a course of treatment. Generally, after taking it for 20 days, the curative effect is obvious, and the plaque fades or the pigment becomes lighter. During the treatment, you should eat more soy products, such as tofu and bean sprouts.
(2) skin care:
Taking a bath with mulberry leaves can make skin smooth. Take 50 ~ 100 g dry mulberry leaves with cream, put them in a pot, add water 10 ~ 15 minutes, then pour them into a bathtub to cool and take a bath. Non-degreasing is a good bodybuilding bath, and people with rough skin can make their skin tender as soon as possible. If you take a proper amount of winter mulberry leaves, add water and decoct them for 15 minutes, then remove the residue to get juice, then heat and concentrate, and store them in the refrigerator for later use. When washing your face every morning, add 30 ml of winter mulberry leaf decoction to the washing water, which can treat facial freckles and black spots and make your skin white, shiny and jade-like.
(3) Treatment of acne:
Acne is an inflammatory skin disease common in young people. After entering adolescence, the secretion of sex hormones in the body is strong, which promotes the secretion of sebaceous glands to increase, leading to sebum deposition, blocking the mouth of hair follicles and easily forming acne. Mulberry leaf decoction for acne. Take 50g of fresh mulberry leaves every day and decoct them in water for 3 times, generally.
15 days can be valid. If you take a proper amount of fresh mulberry leaves and mash them and apply them to acne for 30 minutes every day, you will also have satisfactory results.
(4) Hairdressing:
Make your hair black, shiny and soft. Mulberry leaves are rich in copper, which can prevent hair and skin from turning white. 500g of frosted mulberry leaves or fresh mulberry leaves are removed and ground into powder; Another 250 grams of black sesame seeds are fried and ground; Mixing with white sugar or making into honeyed pills. Take 20g each morning and evening with boiled water. Long-term persistence can make white hair black and rosy, and can prevent baldness.
(5) lose weight:
Long-term adherence to drinking mulberry leaf tea can obviously reduce weight. The diuretic effect of mulberry leaves can not only promote urination, but also discharge excess water accumulated in cells, so mulberry leaves can reduce swelling. Mulberry leaves can also remove excess neutral fat and cholesterol from the blood, which is the function of clearing blood. Obesity is that fat cells in the abdomen and back store too much fat. When the neutral fat in the blood decreases, the stored fat will be released and consumed in the form of heat. Repeatedly, body fat will be reduced. So losing weight and improving hyperlipidemia are interrelated. In addition, the blood viscosity of patients with hyperlipidemia is high, and the flow in capillaries is especially blocked. Capillary is only1100 as thick as our hair, so it is easy to block. Both myocardial infarction and cerebral hemorrhage are the results of capillary blockage. Mulberry leaves contain flavonoids that strengthen capillaries and reduce blood viscosity, so they can lose weight, improve hyperlipidemia and prevent myocardial infarction and cerebral hemorrhage.
8. Relaxation and swelling reduction:
Under the action of mulberry leaves, sugars that are not absorbed by the small intestine and transported to the large intestine are acted by intestinal flora to generate organic acids such as carbon dioxide, hydrogen, butyric acid, propionic acid, acetic acid and lactic acid. It can make the environment inside and outside the intestine acidic, inhibit the reproduction of harmful bacteria, regulate the intestine, and improve constipation and abdominal distension. Mulberry leaves can also excrete excess water in the body and improve edema.
Mulberry leaves have a special effect, which may not be familiar to everyone, and that is antiperspirant. Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica says: Mulberry leaves are "bitter, sweet, cold, slightly toxic, controlling cold, heat and sweating". Compendium of Materia Medica says: "Frosted mulberry leaves should be taken at the end, except for cold, heat and night sweats." Deserved Materia Medica: Mulberry leaves are sweet in taste and cold in nature. Let's start with Yangming Sutra. Clear the dryness of the west and cleanse the reality of the east. Eliminate wind and heat, benefit joints, soothe the liver and stop sweating. "It can be seen that grinding mulberry leaves alone can cure sweating." Compendium of Materia Medica not only has similar records, but also has vivid medical records: mulberry leaves "stop night sweats, Yanzhou has monks." Every time I lie on the pillow, my whole body is sweaty, my clothes and quilt are soaked, and I can't cure it for 20 years. Jiansi teaches picking mulberry leaves with dew, baking them into powder, drinking two yuan of hollow rice, and recovering in a few days. "
Physicians of past dynasties also have a lot of experience. Zhu Danxi, one of the four famous doctors in Jin and Yuan Dynasties, often used mulberry leaves to treat night sweats. He recorded in the book "Danxi Heart Method": "Frosted mulberry leaves are ground into powder, and rice is taken to stop night sweats." Fu Qingzhu, a famous doctor in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, was very good at using mulberry leaves to stop sweating, and also created many.