It is the daily food for silkworms, also known as mulberry, Jingsang, mulberry and yellow mulberry leaves. Mulberry is widely planted in the north and south of China, and the yield of mulberry leaves is rich.
It can also be used as medicine. The name of Chinese medicine is mulberry leaf. Mulberry leaves are dry leaves of mulberry trees. It is best to harvest after the first frost, remove impurities and dry in the sun. It is a medicine for dispelling wind and heat, which can be taken orally or applied externally. It is cold in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, and has the effects of dispelling wind and clearing heat, clearing lung and moistening dryness, clearing liver and improving eyesight. Can be used for treating wind-heat common cold, lung-heat dry cough, dizziness and headache, and blurred vision.
Modern Chinese and western medicine regards mulberry leaves and mulberry leaf biological agents as drugs to improve diabetes and other intractable diseases, and thinks that their curative effects are extremely extensive. Has the functions of clearing away lung heat, moistening dryness, relieving cough, clearing away heat, resolving phlegm and treating night sweats; Tonify and clear liver, improve eyesight, treat dizziness and insomnia, and eliminate eye fatigue; Reduce swelling and clear blood, treat dysentery, abdominal pain, lose weight, remove beriberi, diuresis and small intestine; Anti-stress, cooling blood, lowering blood pressure, reducing blood fat, preventing myocardial infarction and cerebral hemorrhage, and eliminating headache and long hair; Lowering blood sugar and resisting sugar diseases.
Mulberry buds can also be eaten. Mulberry bud is the name of a dish made of buds picked from mulberry branches as auxiliary materials or main materials.