What are the benefits of mulberry? What is a mulberry plant

The mulberry is the ripe fruit of the mulberry tree, a deciduous tree of the family Mulberry. It is produced all over the country. Harvested when the fruit is red and ripe, dried and used raw, or used with honey ointment.

Sexual taste: sweet, cold.

Function: nourish yin and nourish blood, nourish the intestines, and moisten the intestines.

Indications: long-term illness and body weakness, liver and kidney yin deficiency, soreness and weakness of waist and knees, dark eyes and tinnitus, unfavorable joints, constipation, lack of blood and blood, hot flashes and spermatozoa, diabetes, etc.

What are the mulberry plants.

Mulberry plants generally include many species, most of which are trees or shrubs, and a few belong to lianas and herbaceous plants. In general, they are very capable of growth. Mulberry plants include mulberry, fig, lily, arborvitae, sage, pineapple, bread tree, blood-sealed throat, grass, ficus indica and hops.

Mulberry. The mulberry tree is a mulberry plant. Generally 15 meters tall, oval leaves, tan bark. It generally prefers to grow in warm places.

Fig. Figs are a mulberry plant. It has many branches. Generally, its bark is grayish-brown, and the twigs are thicker, which is suitable for growing in moist places.

Construct a tree. It is a mulberry plant. Its bark is dark gray, and its branches are usually hairy. It is more suitable for growing in temperate or tropical regions.

Jackfruit. Jackfruit is a mulberry plant. It generally grows up to 10 meters tall and has dark brown bark. Pineapple is a tropical fruit that is generally suitable for growing in high temperature environments.

Breadfruit. The bread tree is a mulberry plant. Its drainy tree is tall and has large, oval-shaped leaves. It is generally suitable for growing in warmer places in the south.

Mulberry leaves can be fed to silkworms, is the daily food of silkworms, also known as mulberry, thorn mulberry, mulberry tree, yellow mulberry leaves, etc., mulberry trees are widely planted in the north and south of our country, and mulberry leaves are rich in yield.

The main food of silkworms, the complete leaves are or broadly ovate, the base of the leaves is heart-shaped, the apex is slightly pointed, the edges are serrate, and the veins are densely pubescent. The old leaves are thicker and darker green. The young leaves are thin, yellow-green, brittle and easy to hold, prickly in hand, light in breath, and slightly bitter in taste.

It likes light and has strong adaptability to climate and soil. Cold-tolerant, can tolerate -40 low temperatures, drought resistance, water and humidity resistance, can also grow in a warm and humid environment, like deep loose and fertile soil, developed root system, fast growth, strong germination ability, pruning resistance, long life, up to hundreds of years.

Effects of mulberry leaves:

Evacuate wind and heat, clear the lungs and moisten dryness, clear the liver and eyes. It is used for wind-heat cold, lung heat and dry cough, dizziness and headache, and dizziness.

1. Evacuation of wind heat: used for wind heat cold and eye redness, swelling and pain, often with chrysanthemum.

2. Clear the liver and eyes: used for wind, fire and eye diseases (such as acute conjunctivitis). With black sesame seeds named mulberry pills, it is used for dizziness and dizziness and dizziness caused by liver yin deficiency and hyperactivity of liver yang.

3. Clear the lungs and moisten the dryness for lung heat and dry cough: this product is bitter and cold to clear the lungs, sweet and cold and good for yin, cool and moist the lungs, so it can be used for dry heat and hurt the lungs, dry cough and less phlegm, and the light ones can be used with almonds, sand cucumbers, fritillary, etc., such as mulberry apricot soup; The heavy ones can be used with raw gypsum, wheat dong, ejiao, etc.

The role of mulberry leaves:

1. Mulberry leaves are good at dissipating wind heat and dissipating lung heat, external wind heat, headache, cough, etc., often used with chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, mint, forebeard, bellflower, etc. Mulberry leaves can not only be used for the red eyes caused by wind and heat, but also can clear the liver fire, and can be used in conjunction with chrysanthemum, cassia seed, psyllium, etc. As for the lack of liver yin and dizziness, mulberry leaves can also be used with ligustrum, wolfberry, and black sesame seeds that nourish the liver and kidneys.

2. Mulberry leaves are light and divergent, and can disperse wind and heat, but the effect is weak. Clinically, it is mainly used to clear the lungs and liver, such as wind and heat hitting the lungs, coughing with phlegm, or dry and hot lungs, dry cough without phlegm; As well as wind and heat attack or liver inflammation, eye redness, swelling and pain, etc., it is a commonly used medicine. With burdock and front beard, it will disperse wind and clear the lungs; With gypsum and wheat winter, it is dry and moisturizes the lungs; With chrysanthemums and cassia seeds, it clears the liver and eyes.

3. Mulberry leaves have antispasmodic effect.

4. Mulberry leaves have the effect of resisting pathogenic microorganisms. Mulberry leaf decoction has a certain inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, beta-hemolytic streptococcus, diphtheria bacillus and Escherichia coli in vitro. In addition, it can also kill leptospira.

5. Mulberry leaves have anti-inflammatory effects.

6. Mulberry leaves have a hypoglycemic effect. The ecdysterone contained in it has hypoglycemic effect on the increase in blood glucose induced by a variety of methods, which can promote the conversion of glucose into glycogen, but does not change the blood glucose of normal animals.

7. Mulberry leaves have the effect of lowering blood pressure. After the mulberry leaf extract was anesthetized and injected into the femoral vein, there was a temporary decrease in blood pressure, but it did not affect breathing.

8. Mulberry leaves have an effect on smooth muscle, which has an excitatory effect on the emotional uterus of animals and an inhibitory effect on the intestinal muscles of mice.

9. Mulberry leaves also have the effect of lowering blood lipids.

1. **Wind-heat cold: mulberry leaves return to the lungs and liver meridians, which have the effect of diverging wind and heat, and are used for external wind heat. Drinking mulberry leaf tea can effectively relieve symptoms such as fever, headache, sore throat, etc.

2. Lung fever: If there are symptoms of lung fever such as cough with less phlegm, dry nasopharynx or dry lungs, drinking mulberry leaf tea can effectively remove lung heat.

3. **Dizziness: Mulberry leaf tea can alleviate the symptoms of dizziness and dizziness of the liver yang, and the symptoms of red and faint flowers can be calmed and suppressed by the liver yang, clear the liver and brighten the eyes, and can be used together with the headache caused by hyperactivity of the liver yang, and can be brewed together with chrysanthemum and other heat-clearing traditional Chinese medicine.

4. Water to remove athlete's foot: People with athlete's foot can effectively remove athlete's foot by soaking their feet in mulberry leaf tea. The reason why mulberry leaf tea can reduce swelling is because mulberry leaves have the effect of beneficial water, so that the excess water of cells in the body is drained.

In addition to the disadvantages of drinking too much mulberry leaves in water, it is easy to damage the spleen and stomach as described above, and it is also easy to cause the face to get worse and worse, and even loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting; It can also cause thirst in the body; If you take mulberry leaf tea in excess on an empty stomach, the tea will pass directly through our kidney meridian parts, which is very bad for the kidneys.

Study on the antibacterial effect of mulberry leaf extract.

The antibacterial effect of mulberry leaf decoction on common microorganisms and the antibacterial effect under different pH values were studied. The results showed that the extract had no obvious inhibitory effect on the growth of mold. It was effective against the tested bacteria, among which the inhibition of micrococci was the strongest, followed by Salmonella and Escherichia coli, and the effect on Bacillus subtilis was weak.

The antibacterial effect was strengthened with the increase of the concentration of mulberry leaf decoction. Under acidic conditions, the antibacterial effect of mulberry leaf decoction increased to varying degrees, but the effect was not as good as sodium benzoate.

Modern medical research has shown that mulberry leaves are rich in potassium, calcium, iron and vitamin C, B1, B2, B3, A, folic acid and copper, zinc and other trace elements required by the human body, which have unique effects such as antihypertensive, lipid-lowering, anti-aging, increasing endurance, reducing blood lipid content, lowering cholesterol, inhibiting the reproduction of harmful bacteria in the intestine and the production of peroxides, etc., and have a good health care effect on the human body.

Mulberry leaves contain more folic acid, each gram of mulberry leaves contains about 105 g of folic acid, it can participate in the synthesis of nucleic acids, can achieve anti-anemia and promote growth effect, and can ** stomach cancer, gastrointestinal disorders, neural tube malformations, malnutrition and herpes inflammation and other diseases, is very beneficial to human health.

The phytoestrogen in mulberry leaf tea is very close to the phytoestrogens of the human body, which can supplement the phytoestrogens lost by middle-aged women with age, so as to achieve the effect of delaying aging, and the phenolic compounds in mulberry leaves are anti-tumor, and have a good auxiliary effect on women's uterine chocolate cysts, which is the best drink necessary for women.

Obesity is the accumulation of excess fat in the fat cells of the abdomen and back. When there is less neutral fat in the blood, the stored fat is released and consumed in the form of calories. If this continues, the fat in the body will decrease.

Therefore, ** and improvement of hyperlipidemia are interrelated. In addition, the blood viscosity of hyperlipidemia patients is high, and the flow in the capillaries is particularly poor. Myocardial infarction and cerebral hemorrhage are both the result of clogged capillaries.

Mulberry leaves contain flavonoids that strengthen capillaries and reduce blood viscosity, so they can prevent myocardial infarction and cerebral hemorrhage while improving hyperlipidemia.

There is 1 kind of leaf on the mountain, and you can often soak in water to drink, lower blood sugar, lower blood pressure, and delay aging!

When it comes to mulberry leaves, I believe that many children who grew up in the countryside are very familiar with them, and they can be seen everywhere in the fields and ditches, and many friends will use mulberry leaves to raise silkworms, but few people know that mulberry leaves also have many benefits for the human body.