The efficacy and function of autumn mulberry leaves

Mulberry leaves should be a plant that everyone is very familiar with. The mulberries we eat are its fruits. Mulberry leaves were used to feed silkworms many years ago and were their food. What you don’t know is that mulberry leaves actually have many benefits for humans. They can lower blood pressure and are very suitable for people with three highs. In addition, they have a good effect on constipation, headaches, colds and flu. This article introduces the effects of mulberry leaves in detail and gives methods of consumption. Let’s take a look.

1. Mulberry leaf efficacy and function

1. Relieve dizziness caused by liver yang, effectively relieve cough and resolve phlegm, clear away heat and remove blood stasis.

2. Treat and relieve headaches, coughs and wind-heat colds, evacuate wind-heat, and reduce dryness and heat in the lungs.

3. Lower blood pressure and increase the contractility of the heart. It is suitable for people with "three highs" and has obvious effects of lowering blood sugar, blood pressure and blood lipids.

4. Soaking your feet in mulberry leaf tea can also effectively remove athlete's foot.

5. Treat constipation, expel waste and toxins from the body, and play a role in detoxification and beauty.

6. Cosmetic effect. Mulberry leaves have a good skin beauty effect, especially for acne and brown spots. For example, crush fresh mulberry leaves, apply them on the acne, and wash them off after half an hour. This can effectively treat acne. Mulberry leaves can also be used to treat chloasma. After boiling the leaves in water, removing impurities and drying them, they can be used to make tea, which can have a certain therapeutic effect on chloasma.

2. How to eat

1. Make tea with mulberry leaves. Dry the mulberry leaves and then process them before using them to make tea.

2. To make the cold-mixed mulberry leaves, remove the petioles of the washed mulberry leaves, cut into shreds, blanch them in boiling water, then cool them with cold boiled water, drain the water, add seasonings, and mix well.

3 If you want to use mulberry leaves as a staple food, you can wash the mulberry leaves, remove the petioles, cut them into small pieces, then blanch them in boiling water, put them into flour, mix the two together, and then you can process them into mulberry leaf steamed buns, mulberry leaf noodles, and mulberry leaf vegetable cakes.

3. 4 magical effects of drinking mulberry leaves soaked in water

1. Dispel wind-heat. Mulberry leaves soaked in water are used for wind-heat colds and red and swollen eyes, and are often used with chrysanthemum.

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2. Clear the liver and improve eyesight. Mulberry leaves soaked in water can be used for wind-fire eye diseases (such as acute conjunctivitis). It is made of Sang Ma Wan with black sesame seeds and is used to treat dizziness and blurred vision caused by liver-yin deficiency and liver-yang hyperactivity.

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3. Clear the lungs and moisten dryness. Mulberry leaves soaked in water are used for lung heat and dry cough. This product is bitter and cold in nature, clears lung heat, is sweet and cold in nature, nourishes yin, and cools and moistens the 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 almonds, adenophora, Fritillaria, etc., such as Sangxing Decoction; in severe cases, it can be used together with gypsum, Ophiopogon japonicus, donkey-hide gelatin, etc.

4. Mulberry leaves soaked in water have the effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding. For vomiting blood due to blood heat, boil 30 grams of mulberry leaves in water and drink it, or use it in combination with other blood-cooling and hemostatic drugs.