In fact, health care is a luxury, such as bird's nest, ginseng and sea cucumber, but there are also many common health care products in daily life, such as red dates and medlar, and some common mulberry trees, whose leaves are soaked in water also have the function of health care and calming the nerves.

For wild mulberries growing in country roads and ravines, perhaps the first thing we think of is sweet and sour mulberries covered with branches.

When I was a child, who didn't climb trees to pick mulberries to eat? It was a rare fruit at that time.

But in fact, mulberry leaves are more precious than mulberries, and have the reputation of immortal leaves, and their values and uses are very extensive.

Today, let's talk about the value and efficacy of mulberry leaves.

1. Mulberry leaves are called immortal leaves.

When it comes to mulberry leaves, everyone should be familiar with it. Yes, it is a common mulberry leaf on the roadside in rural areas.

Especially friends who have raised silkworms should be more familiar with mulberry leaves. Every summer when mulberry leaves are harvested, they go to the fields to pick fresh mulberry leaves and come back to feed silkworms every day.

But in fact, many people don't know that mulberry leaves are not only the food of silkworms, but also people can eat mulberry leaves directly or drink them with water. It is a kind of green health care product with the same origin of medicine and food.

Some health-preserving people in rural areas even call mulberry leaves immortal leaves, and their nutritional value is immeasurable.

Mulberry leaves are cold and bitter, and can be used as Chinese herbal medicine. It is a good medicine for lowering three highs, clearing liver and moistening lung, and treating wind-heat cold, red eyes and swelling pain, fever and headache.

The earliest use of mulberry leaves as medicine can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty 3000 years ago, and there are records of mulberry leaves as medicine in its unearthed Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

Moreover, modern nutrition research has found that mulberry leaves are rich in dietary fiber, calcium, iron, zinc minerals, vitamins, trace elements, flavonoids and alkaloids.

Rich in nutrition, it also plays a great role in lowering the three highs and calming the nerves. It can be eaten directly, made into cakes or soaked in water.

Therefore, in the harvesting season of mulberry leaves in spring and summer, people often go to the field to harvest fresh mulberry leaves, or process them into medicinal materials by professional Chinese medicine, or shred them, dry them in the sun and store them for making tea and cooking.

Second, the four functions of mulberry leaf boiling water

1, soothe the nerves and keep healthy

Mulberry leaves contain a lot of chlorophyll, giving off a faint fragrance, which makes people feel fresh and stable.

It is best to soak in water to calm the nerves after treatment.

2. Lowering blood pressure to help regulate blood sugar.

Pharmacological research shows that mulberry leaves contain certain flavonoids, which is helpful to reduce blood viscosity, relax blood vessels and lower blood pressure.

Therefore, for patients with hypertension, long-term drinking mulberry leaf tea can play a certain health care role.

In addition, mulberry leaves also have the function of regulating blood sugar. It is recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that taking mulberry leaves with boiling water can help digestion and quench thirst.

This is because mulberry leaves are rich in dietary fiber, vitamins, alkaloids, amino acids and other nutrients, which plays a great role in regulating blood sugar.

To some extent, it inhibits glycogen decomposition and strengthens insulin secretion, thus playing an auxiliary role in the prevention and treatment of diabetes.

3. Clearing liver and improving eyesight

Mulberry leaves also have the functions of clearing lung, moistening dryness, clearing liver and improving eyesight.

To some extent, it can alleviate the symptoms of liver-fire cold, dizziness and red eyes, and even lung heat.

Conditioning with mulberry chrysanthemum tea means soaking in water with Chinese herbal medicines such as mulberry leaves and chrysanthemum.

The specific tea formula is as follows:

Dry Mulberry Leaves and Chrysanthemum Flowers10g each, add 5 grams of mint leaves, directly put them in water and boil for more than ten minutes, and drink tea every day until the symptoms are relieved.

4. Cosmetic treatment of facial acne

Mulberry leaves are not only health products for both medicine and food, but also have other uses after soaking in water.

It is found that mulberry leaves contain a lot of phytoalcohols and amino acids, which can not only lower blood pressure, but also have a good effect on beauty and weight loss.

In particular, it has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on brown spots and facial acne.

Can be used externally or decocted in water.

There are two methods for external use. One is to wash your face with fresh mulberry leaves in water, which will have a good cosmetic effect after a period of time.

Furthermore, mulberry leaves are pounded and applied to acne on the face, and the effect can be seen in three days.

For oral administration, 50 grams of fresh mulberry leaves are taken and decocted in water for three times.

Third, the edible taboos of mulberry leaves

Although mulberry leaf is a kind of precious grass, it can nourish the liver and improve eyesight, soothe the nerves and lower the three highs, and even has the function of beauty and health preservation, but it is imported after all, and some taboos should be followed when eating it.

Although mulberry leaves are nourishing medicinal materials, which can be used as medicine and have many benefits to human body, it should be noted that mulberry leaves are cold, so the dosage should be paid attention to when soaking in water, and it is not advisable to drink more. Drinking mulberry leaves for a long time will damage the spleen and stomach.

In addition, spleen deficiency and pregnant women should not take mulberry leaf tea or food made of mulberry leaves.

Finally, I would like to share with you the practice of a kind of mulberry leaf health-preserving and longevity tea: take 3-5 fresh mulberry leaves, hawthorn 5- 10, dogwood 10-5, chrysanthemum 10, add appropriate amount of crystal sugar and boil for10 minutes, which has a good effect of refreshing the brain and tonifying the kidney.

Suitable for middle-aged and elderly people, friends with three highs and dry eyes.

Mulberry leaf is a commonly used herb, which has the effects of clearing away lung-heat, moistening dryness, calming the nerves, improving eyesight and dispersing wind-heat and can be used in combination with other drugs to treat wind-heat colds, dizziness and other diseases.

Not only that, mulberry leaves can also be used for food supplement, and cooking soup with mulberry leaves alone has the effects of enriching blood and benefiting qi, lowering the three highs, calming the nerves and beautifying the face. It is a veritable fairy leaf.