Mulberry (sāng shèn ) for the mulberry deciduous tree mulberry tree mature fruit, mulberry is also known as mulberry fruit, mulberry dates, farmers like its ripe fresh fruit to eat, sweet and juicy, is one of the fruits that people often eat. Mature mulberry texture oily, sweet and sour taste, to a large, thick flesh, color purple-red, sugar enough for the best. Every year from April to June when the fruit is ripe harvest, wash, remove impurities, sun-dried or slightly steamed after sun-dried food. The specific maturity time is not the same everywhere, the south a little earlier, the north a little later.

Effects of mulberry:

Chinese medicine believes that the mulberry taste sweet and sour, slightly cold, into the heart, liver, kidney meridian, with the liver, kidney, Tsu Tsu moistening intestines, hair and eyesight, etc., the main treatment of blood and yin insufficiency caused by dizziness, tinnitus palpitations, irritability and insomnia, lumbar and knee weakness, hair, thirst and thirst, dryness of mouth, dryness of bowels, and other diseases. Mulberry into the stomach, can supplement the lack of gastric juice, promote digestion of gastric juice, into the intestines can promote the secretion of intestinal fluids, enhance gastrointestinal peristalsis, and thus has the function of tonic and strong.

Modern medicine believes that the mulberry fruit is rich in glucose, sucrose, fructose, carotene, vitamins (A, B1, B2, C), malic acid, succinic acid, tartaric acid and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, copper, zinc and other nutrients. The special growth environment of the mulberry tree determines that the mulberry has the characteristics of natural growth without any pollution, and is regarded as "the best health care fruit of the 21st century" by the medical profession.

The role of mulberry:

Mulberry has improved the blood supply of the skin, nutritional skin, so that the skin white and soft and hair and other roles, and can delay aging. Mulberry is the middle-aged and elderly people health and beauty, anti-aging fruit and good medicine. Eating mulberry can improve eyesight and relieve the symptoms of eye fatigue and dryness. Mulberry has immune-boosting effect, which can prevent arteriosclerosis, bone and joint sclerosis, and promote metabolism. It can promote the growth of blood red blood cells, prevent leukopenia, and has auxiliary effect on the treatment of diabetes, anemia, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, neurasthenia and other conditions.

Early gray hair as much as eat mulberry. Sweet and sour juicy mulberry alone can play the role of thirst, made of medicine or paste often served, can black hair and eyesight, beauty and anti-aging.

Eating method:

Washing directly to eat can be a thirst, if you want to achieve the effect of nourishing the liver and kidneys, it is best to boil into the mulberry cream to take every day. Practice is as follows: take the fresh mulberry juice, small fire simmer to half of the original juice, add the right amount of honey and then boiled into a paste. Take 2 times a day with warm water, each time about 20 milliliters. Remember to boil mulberry cream do not use iron containers, so as not to destroy the fruit body of a variety of nutrients, reduce the effectiveness of tonic.

Reminder:

? Diabetics eat less, and those with spleen deficiency and diarrhea eat less. In addition, children in the growth period should not eat more.