What are the health benefits of mulberry leaves? These points are worth knowing
Mulberry leaf is bitter and sweet in taste, cold in nature, and enters the Lung and Liver meridians; it has the effects of dispelling wind and dissipating heat, clearing the lungs and moistening dryness, calming liver yang, clearing the liver and improving eyesight, and cooling blood to stop bleeding; it can be used to treat wind-heat common cold, dry cough due to lung dryness, thirst and dry throat, dizziness and vertigo, blood-heat vomiting blood and other symptoms. There are even ancient records that washing hair with mulberry leaf decoction can promote hair growth!
Mulberry leaves are the favorite food of cute silkworms and are also a natural green plant with very high efficacy and benefits. Soaking mulberry leaves in water mainly has the following benefits:
1. It can clear lung heat. For symptoms such as cough, little phlegm, dry throat and sore throat, and dry-heat damaging the lungs, drinking water soaked with mulberry leaves can effectively clear lung heat; mulberry leaf enters the Lung and Liver meridians and has the effect of dispersing wind-heat. Mulberry leaves can be soaked in water together with honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, or mint and balloon flower, etc.
2. It can lower the three highs. Components such as alkaloids, polysaccharides and amino acids in mulberry leaves can have a good therapeutic effect on blood sugar, blood pressure and blood lipids; research has found that substances such as rutin, quercitrin and quercetin contained in mulberry leaves have the effect of lowering blood pressure.
3. It can relieve wind-heat common cold. Mulberry leaf has a fever-reducing effect; drinking mulberry leaf tea for symptoms of externally contracted wind-heat common cold can reduce headache, sore swollen throat and fever; it can effectively relieve symptoms such as fever, headache and sore swollen throat, effectively clear lung heat and relieve headache.
4. It can treat dizziness. Mulberry leaf has the effects of clearing the liver and improving eyesight, and treating liver-yang dizziness and red eyes with blurred vision; it can be used for red eyes and photophobia caused by wind-heat, and is also helpful for headache formed by liver-yang rising excessively;
5. It can remove spots and beautify the skin. Drinking mulberry leaf tea can effectively remove melasma. Washing the face with mulberry leaf tea three times a day reduces melanin and has a spot-fading effect. The main cause of acne is changes in the body's endocrine system, which is greatly related to unscientific daily diet and living habits; if this continues for a long time, accumulated heat and dampness will appear in the body. Mulberry leaf has a very good heat-clearing and detoxifying effect. Taking mulberry leaf can remove spots, whiten the skin and increase skin elasticity. This is really a benefit for the ladies!
6. Treating constipation. Mulberry leaf contains a variety of DNJ minerals, all of which are nutrients needed by the body. After entering the body, they have the effect of moistening the intestines and promoting bowel movements, making them very suitable for patients with constipation. In addition to treating constipation, soaking mulberry leaves in water and drinking it can also effectively discharge body waste and toxins, playing a detoxifying role.
In short, mulberry leaf contains a variety of alkaloids, amino acids, polysaccharides and other components, and has good health benefits. However, mulberry leaf is not suitable for eating too much. The Compendium of Materia Medica has detailed records that if mulberry leaf tea is taken in excess, it will damage the essence and blood in the body, and the spleen and stomach will also become cold; over time, the constitution will become worse and worse, and one may even suffer from illness, the complexion will become worse and worse, and the spirit will become listless. Therefore, when soaking mulberry leaves in water and drinking it daily, be sure to pay attention to moderation and do not take it excessively. Mulberry leaves should not be soaked in water and drunk too much, as it will damage the body's essence and blood, make the spleen and stomach cold, cause poor appetite and worsen the constitution. Mulberry leaf tea is cooling in nature, so women had best not use it during menstruation!
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