What are the effects and functions of mulberry leaves What are the effects and functions of mulberry

Mulberry leaves are cold, sweet and bitter in taste, and return to the lungs and liver meridians. When picking, the leaves should be selected to be complete, large and thick, yellow-green, brittle, no impurities, and the old and frosted ones are better, also called frost mulberry leaves or winter mulberry leaves.

In the "Shennong's Materia Medica", it is recorded that mulberry leaves have the effect of removing cold and heat, sweating, and can be used to clear the lungs and moisten dryness, evacuate wind and heat, clear the liver and eyes, and are often used in combination with chrysanthemums.

Mulberry leaves have similar ginseng-like benefits and anti-aging effects, and also have the effects of lowering blood sugar, blood lipids, and blood pressure, which can improve liver function and delay aging. However, mulberry leaves should also be soaked in water, and people with bad stomachs should drink it appropriately.

1. Mulberry leaves. Pharmacological effects: mulberry leaves have anticoagulant effect, hypolipidemic effect, hypotensive effect, cholesterol-lowering effect, antithrombotic and anti-atherosclerotic effect, hypoglycemic effect, antiviral effect, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effect, anti-tumor effect, anti-fatigue effect, anti-aging effect, anti-filariasis effect, anti-ulcer effect, antispasmodic effect, laxative effect, ** effect, improve intestinal function, etc.

2. Cosmetological effect: Recent studies have shown that mulberry leaves have a good cosmetic effect, especially for acne.

Brown spots have a good curative effect. For example, mash fresh mulberry leaves and apply them to the sores.

on, washed off after half an hour, can be effective ** acne. There is also the use of mulberry leaves ** melasma, after boiling mulberry leaves, remove impurities, after drying, can be used to make tea, for melasma can play a certain effect.

1. Mulberry leaves are the dried leaves of the mulberry plant. Harvested after the first frost, impurities are removed, and dried in the sun, which is a kind of diffusing wind and heat medicine, which can be taken internally or externally. Its cold, sweet and bitter taste, has the effect of evacuating wind and heat, clearing the lungs and moistening dryness, clearing the liver and brightening the purpose, and can be the symptoms of wind-heat cold, lung heat and dry cough, dizziness and headache, and red eyes.

2. Modern Chinese and Western medicine use mulberry leaves and mulberry leaf biological agents as drugs to improve diabetes and other incurable diseases, and believe that their medicinal effects are extremely extensive. It can clear the lungs and moisten dryness, relieve cough, remove heat, dissolve phlegm, and treat night sweats; Nourish the liver, clear the liver and brighten the eyes, **dizziness, insomnia, eliminate eye fatigue; Swelling, blood clearing, dysentery, abdominal pain, beriberi, large and small intestines; Anti-stress, cool blood, lower blood pressure, lower blood lipids, prevent myocardial infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, headache, long hair; Hypoglycemic, anti-diabetic disease, etc.

Mulberry leaves are cold, can dissip wind and heat, moisten the lungs, clear the liver and eyes, it can be used for ** wind heat cold, dizziness, headache and lung heat and cough and other symptoms; Rutonin and quercetin in mulberry leaves can dilate coronary blood vessels, promote myocardial blood circulation, promote human metabolism, and reduce blood pressure; Mulberry leaves also have anti-inflammatory and antibacterial effects, which can effectively prevent diseases such as conjunctivitis and pulmonary edema.

Functions and efficacy.

1. Evacuation of wind and heat: It is used for wind heat and cold, red and swollen eyes, and is often used with chrysanthemums.

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: used for lung heat and dry cough: this product is bitter and cold to clear the lung heat, 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.

4. Mulberry leaves have anti-inflammatory and antispasmodic effects.

5. Resistance to pathogenic microorganisms: Mulberry leaf decoction has a certain inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, beta-hemolytic streptococcus, diphtheria bacillus and Escherichia coli in vitro tests. In addition, it can also kill leptospira.

6. Hypoglycemic effect: the ecdyssterone contained in it has a hypoglycemic effect on the increase in blood sugar induced by a variety of methods, which can promote the conversion of glucose into glycogen, but does not change the blood sugar of normal animals.

7. Lower blood pressure: Mulberry leaf extract is injected into the femoral vein after anesthesia to the dog, which temporarily lowers blood pressure, but does 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 hypolipidemic and diuretic effects.

Nutritive value. Mulberry leaves are rich in rare elements organic selenium and germanium, which are natural strong antioxidants, which can remove free radicals in the body, oxidize toxins and waste products accumulated in the human body, increase the oxygen content in the blood, and promote metabolism and microcirculation. It has a very good auxiliary effect on patients with hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia, fatty liver, coronary heart disease, hypertension, hepatitis A and B, as well as patients with radiotherapy and chemotherapy after cancer surgery.

1. Calm the nerves, fresh mulberry leaves are rich in chlorophyll, and there is a faint fragrance, and drinking with mulberry leaves can play a certain role in calming the nerves.

2. Lowering blood sugar, Chinese medicine believes that mulberry leaves are a good Chinese herbal medicine. Mulberry leaves contain polysaccharides, alkaloids, flavonoids, polyphenols and other active ingredients, of which polysaccharides are important active ingredients in mulberry leaves, which can be used to repair pancreatic islet cells, and have obvious hypoglycemic effects. One hundred grams of mulberry leaves contain one hundred milligrams of alkaloids, this alkaloid is an inhibitor of glycosidase, and mulberry leaves are also rich in amino acids and plant alcohol, the content is three to four times that of green tea, and these substances have the effect of **, beauty, and hypoglycemia, so for people who love beauty, obese people, and diabetics, mulberry leaves are a very good thing.

3. To lung heat, mulberry leaves soaked in water can go to lung heat, if there is cough with less phlegm, nasopharyngeal dryness and other symptoms of lung heat or dry heat to hurt the lungs, mulberry leaf tea can effectively remove lung heat.

4. Clear the liver and brighten the eyes, mulberry leaf tea can be dizzy, mulberry leaves can relieve the symptoms of dizziness and red eyes of liver yang, this is because mulberry leaf boiled water has the effect of calming liver yang and clearing the liver and brightening the purpose. It is better to use mulberry leaves and chrysanthemums and other heat-clearing Chinese herbs to soak in water.

5. Anti-inflammatory and swelling, mulberry leaf juice has an inhibitory effect on most gram-positive bacteria and gram-negative bacteria, and also has an inhibitory effect on the growth of some yeasts, so mulberry leaves have a good anti-inflammatory and swelling effect.

1. Mulberry leaves contain a variety of vitamins and minerals, amino acids, carbohydrates and plant fibers.

The Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China confirmed: mulberry leaves are "homology of medicine and food". Mulberry leaf is a good functional food, it can lower blood pressure, lipids, anti-aging, increase endurance, reduce cholesterol, inhibit fat accumulation, inhibit thrombosis, inhibit the reproduction of harmful bacteria in the intestines, inhibit the production of harmful oxides, and the most prominent function is to prevent and treat diabetes.

It has the functions of coughing, fever, dizziness, eliminating eye fatigue, reducing swelling, clearing blood, dysentery, edema, liver tonification, freckle removal, beauty, anti-aging and so on.