Chinese medicine believes that mulberry leaves taste bitter, sweet and cold. Enter lung meridian and liver meridian. Mulberry leaves have a wide range of uses, such as dispelling wind and clearing heat, clearing lung and moistening dryness, calming liver and suppressing yang, clearing liver and improving eyesight, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Used for wind-heat cold, lung-heat dry cough, dizziness and headache, and blurred vision.

In Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, mulberry leaves are called "Xiancao", which has the functions of enriching blood, expelling wind, dissipating heat, benefiting liver and ventilating, lowering blood pressure and diuresis. It can be seen that ancient doctors have realized that mulberry leaves are a good medicine for clearing away heat and stopping sweating.

1, evacuation of wind and heat

For wind-heat cold, red eyes and swelling and pain, it is often used with chrysanthemum.

2. Clearing liver and improving eyesight

For wind-fire diseases (such as acute conjunctivitis). Sangma Pills made from black sesame seeds are used to treat dizziness caused by deficiency of liver yin and hyperactivity of liver yang.

Step 3 clear lung and moisten dryness

This product can clear bitter cold and lung heat, nourish yin with sweet cold, and moisten lung dryness, so it is used for dry heat and lung injury, dry cough and less phlegm. "Compendium of Materia Medica" clearly records that "replacing tea with decoction can quench thirst".

Step 4 lower blood sugar

Mulberry leaves contain a unique substance ecdysterone, which can effectively promote the transformation of excess glucose into glycogen after entering the body, but it will not affect normal blood sugar, not only will it not endanger health, but also have a good inhibitory and therapeutic effect on some hyperglycemia diseases, so it is said that people with hyperglycemia are very suitable to take mulberry leaves.

5. Antioxidant activity

Mulberry leaves contain more isoflavone analogues, similar to ginsenoside, which have strong nourishing and anti-aging effects, can remove free radicals and oxidants in the body, and have a good effect on relieving skin aging and pigmentation.

1, eating too much mulberry leaves will lead to spleen and stomach deficiency and cold. Excessive drinking of mulberry leaves will aggravate the coldness and do great harm to the essence and blood, which is not conducive to the health of the elderly.

2. Drinking mulberry leaves on an empty stomach is good for kidney is not good. Because mulberry leaves are cold, too much will aggravate the coldness of the body, so it is not suitable for drinking in the morning. Many people like to have a drink after getting up while soaking mulberry leaves.

Pregnant women should be forbidden to drink mulberry leaves. When a woman is pregnant, it is the most vulnerable stage of her body, so she should avoid contact with irritating food.

Mulberry leaf and pig bone soup

Ingredients: 300 grams of fresh mulberry leaves, 500 grams of pig bones (pig moon exhibition is also acceptable), and 3 candied dates.

Practice: Wash and drain mulberry leaves and wash pig bones for later use; Water is poured into the casserole, pork bones and candied dates are put into the pot and boiled until boiling, then mulberry leaves are added for about 1 hour, and the soup can be seasoned when it is thick.

Features: the soup is sweet and moist.

Tip: You can add a proper amount of longan pulp and medlar, but before the soup is cooked 15 minutes. Adding round meat can invigorate qi and relieve anxiety.

God, adding Lycium barbarum can improve eyesight and tonify kidney.

Raw materials: 200 grams of fresh mulberry leaves and 300 grams of pig liver.

Practice: Wash mulberry leaves, slice pork liver, cook soup in clear water for about 60 minutes, and season with salt.

Features: Fresh soup.

Tip: Lycium barbarum 10g can be added to increase the therapeutic effect; If there are no fresh mulberry leaves, you can use dried mulberry leaves, 50 grams is enough.