What diseases can be cured by boiling mulberry branches in water?

Many people like to eat mulberries, which have a moderate sweet and sour taste and are especially suitable for consumption in spring and summer. Its leaves, also known as mulberry leaves, are food for silkworms. In fact, in addition to fruits and leaves, the mulberry tree is full of treasures. Mulberry branches, which are branches of mulberry trees, have strong medicinal value. They can not only lower blood pressure and blood lipids, inhibit the formation of blood clots in the human body, but also prevent diabetes. At the same time, it also has a certain weight loss effect.

1. Medicinal value and efficacy of mulberry branches

Mulberry branch: bitter and flat in nature, it mainly enters the liver meridian. It is good at eliminating rheumatism, dredging meridians, benefiting joints, and promoting the flow of water vapor. It is mostly used to treat rheumatic pain, limb cramps, edema, itching and other symptoms, especially good at treating upper limb pain. It can be boiled into a decoction or paste for internal consumption, or boiled in water for external washing. In addition, after burning the branches of the mulberry tree, the juice can be drained out and used to treat tetanus, children's facial ulcers and other diseases.

Mulberry branches have many functions, including lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, anti-aging, increasing endurance, lowering cholesterol, inhibiting fat accumulation, inhibiting thrombosis, inhibiting the reproduction of harmful bacteria in the intestines, and inhibiting the production of harmful oxides. The most prominent function is to prevent diabetes, and it can also help lose weight and beautify. While losing weight and improving hyperlipidemia, it also prevents myocardial infarction and cerebral hemorrhage.

2. The efficacy of other parts of mulberry

1. Mulberry Leaves

Also known as iron fan, it is best harvested after frost, and is called frost mulberry leaves or winter mulberry leaves. It is bitter, sweet and cold in nature, and enters the lung and liver meridians. It has the functions of dispelling wind and heat, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, clearing the liver and improving eyesight, moistening the lungs and relieving cough. It is often used to treat wind-heat cold, lung heat cough, liver yang headache and dizziness, red and blurred eyes, blood heat bleeding and night sweats. It is also used in modern times to treat elephantiasis of the lower limbs. It can be taken orally or used externally, and has also been made into an injection. In addition, the white juice that oozes out after breaking the veins of fresh mulberry leaves is called mulberry leaf juice. It tastes bitter and is slightly cold in nature. It is good at detoxifying, clearing heat and stopping bleeding. It is mainly used to treat carbuncles, goiters, traumatic bleeding and centipede bites. Mulberry leaf distillate can also be used to treat eye diseases.

2 Mulberry root

Also known as mulberry bark, the mulberry roots are harvested in winter and the cork is removed for medicinal use. It is sweet and cold in nature, enters the lung and spleen meridians, and has the functions of clearing the lungs and relieving asthma, promoting water circulation and reducing swelling. It is often used to treat lung heat, cough and asthma, excessive sputum, edema, athlete's foot, and difficulty urinating. It is often used in decoctions and powders, and can also be mashed into juice or decocted in water for external use. Mulberry root with skin can also be used as medicine. It is recorded in books that it tastes slightly bitter and is neutral in nature. It can treat epilepsy, muscle and bone pain, hypertension, red eyes, thrush, metrorrhagia, etc. In addition, the white juice in the bark of the whole mulberry tree is called mulberry bark juice, which can cure children's mouth ulcers and traumatic bleeding.

3. Mulberries

Mulberry, which is also known as mulberry, mulberry fruit, black mulberry, black mulberry, mulberry date, mulberry seed, mulberry grain, mulberry fruit, and cluster fruit, is sweet and cold in nature, and belongs to the heart, liver and kidney meridians. It has the functions of nourishing the liver and kidney, nourishing yin and blood, promoting body fluid and moistening the intestines, and extinguishing wind. It is often used to treat dizziness, blurred vision, tinnitus, insomnia, premature graying of hair, loss of body fluid, thirst, dry intestines and constipation caused by yin deficiency and blood deficiency. It can be used as a decoction, boiled into a paste, eaten raw, soaked in wine, or used externally for washing.