In traditional Chinese medicine, mulberry leaves have always been the focus of attention.
The medicinal value of mulberry leaves has been recorded in Shennong Herbal Classic, the earliest medical work in the world completed in the 2nd century. Now, in the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, mulberry leaves are used as drugs to improve diabetes and other intractable diseases. Mulberry leaf is called "Mulberry Leaf" in traditional Chinese medicine, and its medicinal effects are extremely extensive. It has the effects of relieving cough, removing heat, treating dizziness, relieving eye fatigue, reducing swelling, clearing blood, treating dysentery and abdominal pain, nourishing liver and caring skin. Many people think that drinking mulberry leaf tea can lose weight. Medical proof is related to the "detumescence" and "clearing blood" effects of mulberry leaves.
At present, the Japanese Central Sericulture Research Institute has developed mulberry tea with health care function, which is dark green in color and rich in high-quality protein, essential fatty acids, crude fiber, sugar and nutrients such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc and manganese. It is convenient to drink, and has the functions of promoting metabolism, blood circulation and relieving fatigue.
In addition to mulberry leaf tea, Japan has also introduced a series of foods such as mulberry leaf noodles, mulberry leaf biscuits and mulberry leaf wheat noodles, which are well received by the market. Mulberry leaf extract can also be used as a safety pigment for cakes, which is really useful, really beneficial and impressive.
Mulberry leaf and pig bone soup
[Ingredients] 300 grams of fresh mulberry leaves, 500 grams of pig bones (pig month 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 】 Appropriate amount of longan pulp and Lycium barbarum can be added, but it should be added 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.
Mulberry leaf and pig liver decoction
[Ingredients] 200 grams of fresh mulberry leaves and 300 grams of pig liver;
[Practice] Wash mulberry leaves, slice pork liver, make soup with clear water, cook for about 60 minutes, and season with salt.
[Features] Soup is fresh.
【 Tips 】 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.
Mulberry leaf tea
● Fresh Lycium barbarum seedlings 30g, fresh plantain 30g, fresh mulberry leaves 60g, and appropriate amount of water. Has diuretic and heat-clearing effects.
● Mulberry Chrysanthemum Tea Take 20g of dried mulberry leaves and 20g of dried chrysanthemum, and put them into water to boil. The tea can be taken frequently, and has cooling effect on fever caused by warm pathogen and heat pathogen.
Low mulberry soybean tea take winter mulberry 20g, chrysanthemum 15g, soybean 60g, sugar 30g.
Soak soybeans, add water to mulberry leaves and chrysanthemums, stir-fry, remove residues, add white sugar, dissolve and drink. Once a night.
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 soybean tea, Chrysanthemum morifolium each 12g, soybean 30g, Prunella vulgaris 15g, * * * decocted water, and sugar 15g for seasoning and drinking can treat acute conjunctivitis.
Low mulberry chrysanthemum, hawthorn tea chrysanthemum, honeysuckle each 30g, mulberry leaf 12g, hawthorn 15g, brewed with boiling water for 4 times, each time 10 ~ 15min instead of tea. Suitable for hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and arteriosclerosis.
● Mulberry Leaf Ginseng Jujube Tea uses 200 grams of fresh mulberry leaves, 20 grams of ginseng and 50 grams of red dates, boiled in 3 bowls of water 1 bowl. This prescription is effective for chronic pneumonia.
● 20g of mulberry leaf and kudzuvine flower tea, 20g of chrysanthemum and 20g of kudzuvine flower, daily 1 dose, taken with boiled water as a tea suit, suitable for diabetes caused by conscious internal heat and normal skin temperature.
Mulberry leaf porridge
[Ingredients] Fresh mulberry leaves 100g, fresh lotus leaves 1, japonica rice 100g, and appropriate amount of sugar.
[Production] First, wash fresh mulberry leaves and lotus leaves, boil soup, remove residues and take juice, add polished rice (washed), cook porridge and mix with white sugar.
"Features" light and moist
[Tips] It is better to use fresh mulberry leaves, but it is not so sweet if you use dried mulberry leaves; If dried mulberry leaves are used, only 10g is enough; Lean meat can also be added to porridge; This porridge can be eaten as a snack.
Small knowledge
Mulberry leaves are the leaves of Mulberry, a Moraceae plant. Crispy. Slight breath, light taste, slightly bitter and slightly astringent. Cold, sweet and bitter. Indications: 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, headache and dizziness, and blurred vision.
Fresh mulberry leaves are more active, so are dried mulberry leaves in Chinese medicine shops.
Reminder:
Fresh mulberry leaves must be soaked first after they are bought back to prevent pesticide residues on mulberry leaves; If you want to pick mulberry leaves in the field, you must ask if you have sprayed pesticides recently.