Wu Wenbo Shijiazhuang City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hebei Province

Mulberry leaf is the king of plants, ginseng hot tonic, Mulberry leaf clear tonic "reputation , rich in human 17 kinds of amino acids, crude protein, crude fat, the Ministry of Health recognized as the "medicinal food with source" plant, the International Food and Health Organization included in the "human 21st century, the immortal herb", "the human 21st century, the human 21st century, the human 21st century". "Medicine and food" plant, was included in the international food hygiene organization "one of the top ten health food of the 21st century", is a new source of green food for human beings. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" on the mulberry leaf records: "Sang Kei Xing's spirit is also, the cicada food called article, people eat the old man as a child, mulberry leaf is also known as: "Immortal Grass" , Japanese people called mulberry leaf tea for longevity tea . The Japanese call mulberry leaf tea longevity tea. As a medicine and food of the mulberry leaf, in the clinic is used by experts in the treatment of those infertility patients; at the same time, mulberry leaf diet and efficacy in the ancient book "New Series of Materia Medica" is also a very graphic record: the old man can support the decline of the old, the old woman can be also less children.

Mulberry leaves "Shennong Ben Cao Jing"

Mulberry leaves for the mulberry plant mulberry dry leaves. Most of our country has wild or cultivated. Harvested after the first frost, remove impurities, sun-dried. Raw or honey-roasted. Taste sweet, bitter, cold. Attributed to the lung, liver meridian. It has the function of dispersing wind-heat, clearing lung and moisturizing dryness, calming liver yang, clearing liver and improving eyesight.

Usage and dosage; decoction, 5 9g; or into the pill, bulk. Externally, it is used to wash the eyes with decoction water. Mulberry leaves honeyed can enhance the role of moisturizing the lungs and relieve cough, so lung dryness and cough more honeyed mulberry leaves.

Contraindications of mulberry leaves:, due to the bitter cold of mulberry leaves, overdose may damage the function of the spleen and stomach. If you have a cold spleen and stomach, you need to pay more attention when using it. It is also not suitable for wind-cold cold.

Mulberry leaf pharmacology

(1) lowering blood sugar (2) lowering blood pressure (3) lowering blood lipids (4) weight loss (5) eliminating sores, dispel blemishes and beauty (6) antioxidant, anti-aging (7) antiviral, anti-tumor effects.

Mulberry Leaf Diet

Mulberry Leaf Tea: Mulberry Leaf Tea is generally selected from ecologically superior, non-polluting, high-quality young mulberry leaves as raw materials, refined by scientific baking and other processes.

Mulberry Leaf Porridge: Fresh mulberry leaves, fresh lotus leaves, round-grained rice, sugar. First of all, fresh mulberry leaves, fresh lotus leaves wash and decoction, take the juice to remove the slag, add round-grained rice (washed) and cook into porridge, add sugar to mix well.

Mulberry leaves powder to do pasta

Mulberry leaves hanging noodles: take the fresh mulberry leaves after the frost, with the afternoon is enough sun drying ground into powder, and white flour according to a certain proportion of the mixture, it became mulberry leaf flour. Then, such as mulberry cookies, mulberry pastries, with mulberry leaf powder.

There are also mulberry leaf feasts in the south.