The leaves of the mulberry tree are called "Sang Ye" in Chinese medicine, which is considered to have a wide range of medicinal effects. There are cough, remove heat, treatment of dizziness, eliminate eye fatigue, reduce swelling, clear blood, cure dysentery, abdominal pain, tonic liver, skin and so on

The motherland medicine that the mulberry leaves have a wind, clearing the heat, cool the blood and brighten the role of the wind-heat flu \red-eye disease has a very good therapeutic effect. Modern medical research has pointed out that it also has the effect of lowering blood pressure, lowering sugar.

Modern pharmacological research

1. Mulberry leaves have antispasmodic effects.

2. Mulberry leaves have antipathogenic microbial effects. Mulberry leaf decoction has some inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus b hemolyticus, Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Escherichia coli in in vitro test. In addition, it can also kill leptospira.

3. Mulberry leaves have anti-inflammatory effects.

4. Mulberry leaves have hypoglycemic effect. The ecdysterone it contains has a hypoglycemic effect on the elevation of blood glucose induced by a variety of methods, and can promote the conversion of glucose into glycogen, but does not change the blood glucose of normal animals.

5. Mulberry leaves have the effect of lowering blood pressure. Mulberry leaf extract was given to dogs after anesthesia femoral vein injection, appeared to temporarily lower blood pressure, but does not affect breathing.

6. Mulberry leaves have an effect on smooth muscle, which has an excitatory effect on the motile uterus of animals and an inhibitory effect on the intestinal muscles of rats.

7. Mulberry leaves also have hypolipidemic and diuretic effects.