How to dry mulberry leaves

Mulberry leaves have a wide range of uses. Not only are they very ornamental, but most importantly they can be used as medicinal materials. However, many people don't know that mulberry leaves have this use. In addition, mulberry leaves can also be used as food ingredients, which is a very common practice. However, before doing so, the mulberry leaves must be completely dried first so that they can be processed a second time and made into Chinese medicinal materials.

Dosage

For internal use: decoct in water, 1.5-3 qian; or make into pills or powder. For external use: decoct in water for washing or mash for application.

Preparation method

Mulberry leaves: pick out impurities, crush them, winnow out the stems, and sift out the mud. Honey mulberry leaves: Take clean mulberry leaves, add refined honey and a little boiling water, mix well, simmer for a while, put in a pot and stir-fry over low heat until it is no longer sticky, take out and let cool. (For every 100 kilograms of mulberry leaves, use 20 to 25 kilograms of refined honey).

Geographical distribution

Most of the country has production

application

(1) Used for wind-heat cold, headache and cough. This product is sweet, cold and light in nature, and is light, clear and dispersing. It is good at cooling and dispersing wind-heat, and can also clear the lungs and relieve cough. Therefore, it is often used for wind-heat colds or the initial stage of febrile disease, warm evil invading the lungs, fever, headache, cough and other symptoms. It is often used together with chrysanthemum, forsythia, almond, etc., such as Sangxing Decoction.

(2) Used for dry cough caused by lung heat. This product is bitter and cold in nature, clears lung heat, is sweet and cold in nature, nourishes yin, and cools and moistens dry lungs. Therefore, it can be used for dry-heat damaging the lungs, dry cough with little sputum. In mild cases, it can be used together with apricot kernel, adenophora, Fritillaria, etc., such as Sangxing Decoction; in severe cases, it can be used together with gypsum, Ophiopogon japonicus, donkey-hide gelatin, etc., such as Qingzao Jiufei Decoction.

(3) Used for dizziness caused by liver yang, red and blurred vision. This product is bitter and cold, and enters the liver meridian, and has the effect of calming down liver yang, so it can be used to treat hyperactivity of liver yang, headache and dizziness, and is often used together with chrysanthemum, semen cassiae, white peony root, etc.; this product can dispel wind-heat, clear away liver fire, nourish yin, cool blood and improve eyesight, so it is combined with chrysanthemum, prunella vulgaris, plantain seed and other liver-clearing and eye-improving ingredients to treat wind-heat in the liver meridian, red eyes, astringent pain, tears and other symptoms caused by liver fire; combined with black sesame which nourishes essence and blood, that is, Sangma Pills, it can also be used for deficiency symptoms of liver yin deficiency and blurred vision.

It is used for symptoms such as vomiting blood and epistaxis caused by blood heat. This product is sweet and cold, and has the effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding. It can be used alone or in combination with other hemostatic drugs.