Mulberry leaves are bitter, sweet and cold, and enter the lung and liver meridians. They have the effects of dispelling wind and clearing heat, clearing lung-heat, moistening dryness, clearing liver-heat, improving eyesight, beautifying and losing weight, and lowering blood sugar. At the same time, it is rich in crude protein, crude fat, vitamins, organic acids, flavonoids, polysaccharides and other nutrients, and can be used for cooking, making tea, making soup and cooking noodles, with the best taste in March and April.

Can pregnant women eat the dishes made of mulberry leaves? Yes

Mulberry leaves are rich in nutrition, and have the effects of expelling wind and clearing away heat, clearing away lung heat and moistening dryness, and clearing away heat and toxic materials. Proper eating of mulberry leaves by pregnant women can reduce fire and noise and improve the body's disease resistance. Especially after pregnant women catch a cold, eating mulberry leaves can relieve symptoms.

Reminder: Eating too much mulberry leaves can easily aggravate irregular uterine contraction, and threatened abortion may occur. So pregnant women should not eat too much.

Mulberry leaf porridge is recommended for mulberry leaf recipes.

Ingredients: mulberry leaf 10g, rice 10g, and proper amount of sugar.

Practice: select mulberry leaves, put them in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, decoct them in water to get juice, add rice to cook porridge, add sugar when cooked, and cook them once or twice, with a dose of 1-2 per day for 3-5 days.

Efficacy: dispelling wind and clearing heat, clearing liver and improving eyesight, clearing lung and moistening dryness. Suitable for exogenous wind-heat, fever, headache, cough, dry throat pain, red eyes and swelling, shame and tears.

Mulberry leaf and pig liver decoction

Materials: Mulberry leaf 15-20g, pork liver 100- 120g, and 2 slices of ginger.

Method: First, put mulberry leaves and ginger into a casserole, add 500 ml of clear water, cook with strong fire for a while, then simmer for about 20-30 minutes, add pork liver, roll until cooked, and add appropriate amount of salt and a little oil.

Efficacy: Mulberry leaf rolling pig liver has the effects of dispelling wind and clearing heat, nourishing liver and improving eyesight, and is also a common folk soup for adjuvant treatment of liver heat, headache, conjunctivitis and night blindness.

Stewed chicken with mulberry leaves and angelica

Materials: chicken 1 chicken, 300g of mulberry root slices, 30g of mulberry leaves, 0g of angelica10g, 2g of medlar, and proper amount of wine and salt.

Practice: Put mulberry root slices and mulberry leaves into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, cook for one hour, then add angelica, medlar, chicken and wine, stew for 50 minutes, and add salt to taste.

Efficacy: clearing lung-heat, moistening dryness, calming liver and improving eyesight are suitable for dizziness caused by blood deficiency and wind dryness.