Efficacy of mulberry leaves
Mulberry leaves have the effects of dispersing wind and heat, clearing lung-heat, moistening dryness, calming liver and suppressing yang, clearing liver-heat, improving eyesight, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Used for wind-heat cold, lung-heat dry cough, dizziness and headache, blurred vision.
Dispelling wind-heat: used for wind-heat cold, red eyes, swelling and pain, and often used with chrysanthemum.
Clearing liver and improving eyesight: used for wind-fire ophthalmopathy (such as acute conjunctivitis). Sangma Pills made from black sesame seeds are used to treat dizziness caused by deficiency of liver yin and hyperactivity of liver yang.
Clearing lung and moistening dryness: used for dry cough caused by lung heat: this taste is bitter and cold, clearing lung heat, sweet and nourishing yin, and cooling and moistening lung dryness, so it can be used for lung injury caused by dry heat, dry cough and less phlegm. Almond, Radix Adenophorae and Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae can be used in mild cases, such as Sangxing Decoction. In severe cases, it can be used with gypsum, Ophiopogon japonicus and Ejiao. Has the effects of cooling blood and stopping bleeding. For hematemesis due to blood heat, 30 grams of mulberry leaves should be decocted, or used together with other blood-cooling hemostatic drugs.
Mulberry leaves are rich in amino acids, cellulose, vitamins, minerals, flavonoids and other physiologically active substances, which are good Chinese herbal medicines and health food.
Mulberry leaves are called "Xiancao" in the Book of Materia Medica in Hanshu Shennong, which has the functions of enriching blood, expelling wind, dissipating heat, benefiting liver and ventilating, lowering blood pressure and diuresis. It can be seen that ancient doctors have realized that mulberry leaves are a good medicine for clearing away heat and stopping sweating.
According to Compendium of Materia Medica, "take antiperspirant instead of tea";
"Compendium of Materia Medica" clearly records that "replacing tea with decoction can quench thirst".
According to Zhu Danxi's "Danxi Heart Method" in the Yuan Dynasty, it was recorded: "After frosted mulberry leaves are ground, take rice to stop night sweats." Fu Qingzhu, a famous doctor in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, was especially good at using mulberry leaves to stop sweating. He has prepared many prescriptions, such as antiperspirant pills, antiperspirant pills and antiperspirant pills, all of which take mulberry leaves as the main medicine and praise mulberry leaves as "the miracle of antiperspirant".
Modern medicine has proved that mulberry leaf is a good functional food, which can lower blood pressure, reduce blood fat, resist aging, increase endurance, lower cholesterol, inhibit fat accumulation, inhibit thrombosis, inhibit the reproduction of harmful bacteria in intestinal tract, inhibit the generation of harmful oxides, and the most prominent role is to prevent diabetes.
Functions of Mulberry Leaves
According to research, dried mulberry leaves contain 25% ~ 45% of crude protein, 20% ~ 25% of carbohydrates and 5% of crude fat, and are rich in potassium, calcium and vitamin C, as well as various trace elements such as copper, zinc, boron and manganese. Mulberry leaves contain amino acids such as ecdysterone, lupinone, target glycoside, morin, vitamins, xanthic acid, folic acid, fumaric acid, racemic creatine, phytoestrogen, etc., which have the functions of anti-stress, anti-aging, enhancing physical endurance and regulating adrenaline function.
The fourth national census found that many people live long in a county in Xinjiang Autonomous Region. One of the main reasons is that mulberry trees are widely planted here, and local people are used to drinking mulberry leaves instead of tea and eating mulberry all the year round. Mulberry leaves contain more folic acid, and each gram of mulberry leaves contains folic acid 105 micrograms. Folic acid, as a medical raw material, participates in the synthesis of nucleic acid, has the functions of resisting various anemia and promoting growth, and can be used to treat gastric cancer, gastrointestinal disorder, anorexia, malnutrition, rash dermatitis, etc., which is of great significance to human health.
Anticoagulant effect
Mulberry leaf extract can obviously prolong the coagulation time of whole blood in mice and the activation time of partial thromboplastin (APTI), prothrombin (PT) and thrombin (TT) in rabbit plasma. Because the starting process of coagulation is exogenous and endogenous, APTI reflects the activity of endogenous coagulation pathway, PT reflects the activity of exogenous coagulation pathway, and TT reflects the same pathway, namely thrombin activity. It shows that mulberry leaves have direct inhibitory effect on thrombin-fibrinogen reaction.
Hypotensive effect
Rutin, quercetin and quercitrin in mulberry leaves can increase the contractility and output of frog hearts in vitro and in vivo, and reduce the heart rate. Rutin can contract the blood vessels of toad's lower limbs and rabbit's ears, while quercetin can dilate coronary vessels and improve myocardial circulation. γ -aminobutyric acid, rutin and quercetin have the effect of lowering blood pressure. γ -aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a neurotransmitter, which can promote the metabolism of brain tissue and restore the function of brain cells. At the same time, it can improve cerebral blood flow, enhance the activity of angiotensin converting enzyme ⅰ, and promote the decline of blood pressure.
Reduce blood lipid, cholesterol, thrombosis and atherosclerosis.
Mulberry leaves can inhibit the formation of fatty liver, reduce blood lipid and inhibit the formation of atherosclerosis. Active ingredients include DNJ, phytosterol, flavonoids and so on.
Mulberry leaves contain flavonoids that strengthen capillaries and reduce blood viscosity, while mulberry leaf tea contains LDL- lipoprotein oxidation in antibodies, so mulberry leaves can prevent myocardial infarction and cerebral hemorrhage while losing weight and improving hyperlipidemia. Kadaika Doi, a Japanese expert, confirmed that mulberry leaf extract has inhibitory effect on the increase of blood lipid and atherosclerosis in hyperlipidemia. Mulberry leaf tea can significantly increase serum high density lipoprotein (HDL-C) and HDL-C/ total cholesterol (P
Hypoglycemic effect
Chinese medicine has used mulberry leaves as Chinese medicine for clinical treatment of diabetes (diabetes in modern medicine) since ancient times, and the ancient Japanese book Drinking Tea for Health also records that mulberry leaves have the effect of improving drinking water disease (diabetes in modern medicine). Domestic and foreign research data confirm that alkaloids and polysaccharides are the main hypoglycemic components in mulberry leaves.
The hypoglycemic effect of mulberry leaves is achieved through two ways: first, the activity of disaccharidase is inhibited by alkaloid DNJ( 1- deoxynojirimycin), thus inhibiting the absorption of disaccharide in the small intestine and reducing the postprandial blood sugar peak; Secondly, the alkaloids of mulberry leaves, genistein and polysaccharide of mulberry leaves, can promote β cells to divide insulin, and insulin can promote the utilization of sugar by cells, the synthesis of glycogen and improve sugar metabolism, and finally achieve the effect of lowering blood sugar.
The polyhydroxy noranisodamine isolated from mulberry leaves has strong glycosidase inhibition; N-Me-DNJ, GAL-DNJ and fagomine can significantly reduce the blood sugar level, among which GAL-DNJ and fagomine have the strongest hypoglycemic effect.
Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects
Mulberry leaf juice has a good inhibitory effect on most gram-positive bacteria, gram-negative bacteria and some yeasts. Moreover, the required bacteriostatic concentration is low, the pH value range is wide (4~9), and the thermal stability is strong. Rutin in mulberry can significantly inhibit traumatic edema in rats and prevent the development of conjunctivitis, otitis externa and pulmonary edema. Mulberry leaves have a strong anti-inflammatory effect, which is consistent with the effect of expelling wind and clearing heat.
Antiviral and antitumor effects
Mulberry leaves can prevent cancer cells and improve human immunity. The main functional components are DNJ, flavonoids, morin, γ -aminobutyric acid and vitamins, which can inhibit chromosomal mutation and gene mutation. DNJ has remarkable anti-retroviral activity. Its IG30 is 1.2~2.5μg/mL, and its inhibitory effect increases with the increase of DNJ dose. The inhibition rate of DNJ on tumor metastasis is 80.5%, and its inhibition mechanism may be that DNI produces immature sugar chains on the surface of tumor cells by inhibiting the activity of glycosidase, which weakens the tumor metastasis ability.
Two flavonoids, quercetin -3-β-D glucopyranoside and quercetin -3-7- dioxygen -β-D glucopyranoside, isolated and purified from mulberry leaves have obvious inhibitory effects on the growth of human promyelocytic leukemia cells (HL-60). Morin in mulberry leaves has anti-cancer activity, and vitamins in mulberry leaves have the effect of inhibiting mutagens.
Anti-aging and anti-fatigue effects
After four years of experiments, the Institute of Clinical Pharmacology of Zhejiang University confirmed that mulberry leaves have nourishing and anti-aging effects similar to ginseng. Ginseng is a hot tonic, and mulberry leaves are a tonic, which is suitable for all ages.
In addition, quercetin, phenolic compounds, vitamin C and other components contained in mulberry leaves can prevent oxidative damage by inhibiting or scavenging free radicals. Mulberry leaves have nourishing, anti-aging and nervous system functions similar to those of ginseng, which can relieve emotional excitement caused by physiological changes, improve the activity of superoxide dismutase in the body, prevent the production of harmful substances in the body, and reduce or eliminate lipofuscin that has been produced and accumulated in the body. Mulberry leaves can improve the tolerance of mice to high temperature stimulation and prevent the adrenal cortex function from decreasing due to stress stimulation. When the adrenal function decreases, mulberry leaves can make it return to normal. Mulberry leaves can prolong the swimming and flip time of mice, enhance the endurance of the body and prolong the life span of fruit flies. It can effectively remove superoxide anion produced by biological oxidation and has the effect of delaying aging.
Anti-filariasis effect
Mulberry leaves can be used to treat filariasis elephantiasis and chyluria, and its mechanism may be due to the comprehensive anti-inflammatory, detumescence, tissue softening and antibacterial effects of rutin, quercetin, isoquercetin, coumarin and chlorogenic acid contained in mulberry leaves.
Spasmodic and anti-ulcer effects
Quercetin in mulberry leaves can reduce the tension of intestinal and bronchial smooth muscle, and its antispasmodic effect is stronger than rutin. Rutin can reduce gastric motility in rats and relieve small intestinal smooth muscle spasm caused by barium chloride. Subcutaneous injection of rutin 5~ 10mg/kg can significantly reduce the number of gastric ulcer lesions caused by pyloric ligation in rats.
Improve intestinal function, moisten intestines and relieve constipation, and lose weight.
DNJ minerals and unabsorbed sugars in the small intestine are fermented by intestinal flora after entering the large intestine, producing organic acids such as butyric acid, propionic acid, lactic acid, acetic acid, etc., which makes the intestinal environment acidic, increases the acidity of intestinal contents, inhibits the reproduction of harmful bacteria, regulates the intestine, improves constipation, improves abdominal distension, and has a catharsis effect, reduces the occurrence of some acute abdomen, protects intestinal mucosa and loses weight.
Medicinal value of mulberry leaves
Modern Chinese and western medicine regards mulberry leaves and mulberry leaf biological agents as drugs to improve diabetes and other intractable diseases, and thinks that their curative effects are extremely extensive. Has the functions of clearing away lung heat, moistening dryness, relieving cough, clearing away heat, resolving phlegm and treating night sweats; Tonify and clear liver, improve eyesight, treat dizziness and insomnia, and eliminate eye fatigue; Reduce swelling and clear blood, treat dysentery, abdominal pain, lose weight, remove beriberi, diuresis and small intestine; Anti-stress, cooling blood, lowering blood pressure, reducing blood fat, preventing myocardial infarction and cerebral hemorrhage, and eliminating headache and long hair; Lowering blood sugar and resisting sugar diseases.
Beauty Function of Mulberry Leaves
Mulberry leaves are the leaves of Mulberry, a Moraceae plant. Chinese medicine believes that mulberry leaves are bitter, sweet and cold, and have the effects of dispelling wind and clearing heat, clearing liver and improving eyesight. Studies in recent years have proved that mulberry leaves also have a good skin care effect, especially for acne and brown spots on the face.
The "Fu Sang Zhi Bao Dan" contained in the ancient medical book Bao Sheng Lu Yao in China has the functions of "preserving face, blackening hair, replenishing marrow and essence, eliminating diseases and prolonging life". What are the medicinal ingredients? The answer will be surprising-mulberry leaves.
Mulberry leaves have a good effect on acne.
Mulberry leaf is a natural beauty and skin care product, which is cheap and good, especially for acne and brown spots on the face. Acne is an inflammatory skin disease common in young people. After entering adolescence, due to the exuberant secretion of sex hormones in the body, the secretion of sebaceous glands increases, which can lead to sebum deposition, blocking the mouth of hair follicles and forming acne. In addition, Chinese medicine also believes that overeating greasy and spicy food, stagnation of damp heat in the spleen and stomach, long-term constipation, and invasion of external evils into the skin are also easy to induce acne. Mulberry leaves have the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials. Someone tried mulberry leaf soup to treat 258 cases of acne, and the effective rate was 89%. Brown spots on the face often bother many women. Someone tried mulberry leaf decoction to treat 258 cases of acne, and the curative effect was over 89%. The specific method is to take 50 grams of fresh mulberry leaves every day and decoct them for three times, which usually takes effect in fifteen days. Someone pounded fresh mulberry leaves and applied acne for 30 minutes every day, and achieved satisfactory results.
Treatment of facial brown spots with mulberry leaves
As for the treatment of facial brown spots with mulberry leaves, the specific method is: cook 500 grams of mulberry leaves on the market, put them in water for disinfection, remove impurities and dry them in the air for later use. Fifteen grams a day, boiled water for tea, 30 days as a course of treatment. Experts believe that taking mulberry leaves can have a good effect on brown spots on the skin, which may be related to the improvement of secretion function of the body. At the same time, according to pharmacological research, mulberry leaves are rich in flavonoids, phenols, amino acids, organic acids, carotene, vitamins and a variety of essential trace elements, which have a positive effect on improving and regulating the metabolism of skin tissues, especially inhibiting the occurrence and development of pigmentation. If mulberry leaves are decocted, their effective components are extracted and concentrated, and then added to the beauty cream as a cosmetic additive, it will undoubtedly have a better effect on facial brown spots when taken orally and externally for a long time.
Edible method of mulberry leaves
Mulberry leaves, used as tea drinks, are called "immortal tea" in China and "longevity tea" in Japan, which are popular all over the country. Modern Chinese and western medicine regards mulberry leaves and mulberry leaf biological agents as drugs to improve diabetes and other intractable diseases, and thinks that their curative effects are extremely extensive.
Mulberry leaves are delicious and have no side effects. In ancient China, mulberry leaves were used to replace tea as a drink to keep young. Mulberry leaf is called "Mulberry Leaf" in traditional Chinese medicine, and its medicinal effects are extremely extensive. It has the effects of relieving cough, removing heat, treating dizziness, relieving eye fatigue, reducing swelling, clearing blood, treating dysentery and abdominal pain, nourishing liver and caring skin. Many people think that drinking mulberry leaf tea can lose weight. Medical proof is related to the "detumescence" and "clearing blood" effects of mulberry leaves.
At present, the Japanese Central Sericulture Research Institute has developed mulberry tea with health care function, which is dark green in color and rich in high-quality protein, essential fatty acids, crude fiber, sugar and nutrients such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc and manganese. It is convenient to drink, and has the functions of promoting metabolism, blood circulation and relieving fatigue.
In addition to mulberry leaf tea, Japan has also introduced a series of foods such as mulberry leaf noodles, mulberry leaf biscuits and mulberry leaf wheat noodles, which are well received by the market. Mulberry leaf extract can also be used as a safety pigment for cakes, which is really useful, really beneficial and impressive.
Mulberry leaf tea
Mulberry leaf and wolfberry tea: fresh medlar seedlings 30g, fresh plantain 30g, fresh mulberry leaf 60g, decocted with appropriate amount of water. Has diuretic and heat-clearing effects.
Mulberry leaf chrysanthemum tea: take 20 grams of dried mulberry leaves and 20 grams of dried chrysanthemum, and add water to boil. Often taken as tea, it has a cooling effect on fever caused by warm pathogens and heat pathogens.
Mulberry soybean tea: take 20 grams of winter mulberry leaves, 0/5 grams of chrysanthemum/kloc-,60 grams of soybeans and 30 grams of sugar.
Soak soybeans, add water to mulberry leaves and chrysanthemums, stir-fry, remove residues, add white sugar, dissolve and drink. Once a night. This prescription has the functions of clearing liver-fire, improving eyesight, diminishing inflammation and dispelling wind and heat, and has a good curative effect on acute conjunctivitis and eye swelling and pain.
Mulberry leaf chrysanthemum soybean tea: Chrysanthemum morifolium, each 12g, soybean 30g, Prunella vulgaris 15g, * * * decocted in water and flavored with sugar 15g, which can treat acute conjunctivitis.
Mulberry leaves and chrysanthemum hawthorn tea: chrysanthemum and honeysuckle each 30g, mulberry leaves 12g, hawthorn 15g, brewed with boiling water for 4 times, each time 10 ~ 15min, no drinking tea. Suitable for hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and arteriosclerosis.
Mulberry leaf ginseng jujube tea: 200 grams of fresh mulberry leaf, 20 grams of ginseng and 50 grams of jujube, boiled in 3 bowls of water 1 bowl. This prescription is effective for chronic pneumonia.
Folium Mori and Flos Puerariae Chamomillae scented tea: 20g of folium Mori, 20g of Flos Chrysanthemi and 20g of Flos Puerariae Lobatae, 65,438+0 doses per day, taken with boiled water as a tea suit, suitable for diabetes caused by conscious internal heat and normal skin temperature.
Mulberry leaf porridge
[Ingredients] Fresh mulberry leaves 100g, fresh lotus leaves 1, japonica rice 100g, and appropriate amount of sugar.
[Production] Wash fresh mulberry leaves and lotus leaves, boil soup, remove juice residue, add japonica rice (washed), cook porridge and mix with white sugar.
[Features] It is light and moist, especially fresh mulberry leaves, but it is not so fresh and sweet if dried mulberry leaves are used; If dried mulberry leaves are used, only 10g is enough; Lean meat can also be added to porridge; This porridge can be eaten as a snack.
Little knowledge: Mulberry leaves are the leaves of Mulberry, a Moraceae plant. Crispy. Slight breath, light taste, slightly bitter and slightly astringent. Cold, sweet and bitter. Indications: dispelling wind and clearing heat, clearing lung and moistening dryness, clearing liver and improving eyesight. Can be used for treating wind-heat common cold, lung-heat dry cough, headache and dizziness, and blurred vision.
Fresh mulberry leaves are more active, so are dried mulberry leaves in Chinese medicine shops.
Reminder: Fresh mulberry leaves must be soaked first after being bought back to prevent pesticide residues on mulberry leaves; If you want to pick mulberry leaves in the field, you must ask if you have sprayed pesticides recently.
Folk uses of mulberry leaves
Decoct 5-9g; Or put into pill powder. Wash eyes with topical decoction. Honey can enhance the effect of moistening lung and relieving cough, so mulberry leaves and honey are often used for lung dryness and cough.
Numbness of hands and feet: no backlog of pain. Decoct the soup with the first frosted mulberry leaves and wash it frequently.
Full of tears: take the mulberry leaves that don't fall in winter and cook soup and wash them warmly every day. Or add arsenic nitrate.
Red eyes and astringent pain: it is effective to grind mulberry leaves into powder, roll them into paper paste and smoke their noses.
Hair is not long: wash your hair with mulberry leaves and hemp leaves. After seven times, the hair grew quickly.
Hematemesis: Bake mulberry leaves at night, grind them into powder, and take San Qian with herbal tea. After the bleeding stops, take medicine that nourishes the liver and lungs.
Pulmonary toxic wind sores: Wash with mulberry leaves. Steam overnight, dry in the sun, grind into powder, and add two yuan of water.
No carbuncle: use frosted mulberry leaves, grind them and apply them.
Soup fire wounds: burn with frosted mulberry leaves, grind into powder, and apply with oil. It will be cured in a few days.
Dietary taboo of mulberry
Mulberry has two kinds of fresh food, black and white, with purple and black as the top grade. Immature ones can't be eaten. Avoid using iron when cooking mulberry cream.
Because mulberry contains hemolytic allergic substances and hyaluronic acid, it is easy to have hemolytic enteritis after excessive consumption.
Children should not eat more mulberries. Because mulberry contains more trypsin inhibitor-tannic acid, it will affect the absorption of iron, calcium, zinc and other substances.
People with spleen deficiency and loose stool should not eat mulberries. Mulberry is high in sugar, so diabetics should avoid eating it.
Hawthorn:
First, the efficacy of hawthorn
1, invigorating spleen and appetizing
As long as people have no appetite in life, they will eat some hawthorn to stimulate their appetite Because hawthorn can promote the secretion of gastric juice and help digestion, people will feel hungry after eating hawthorn, thus achieving the effect of invigorating spleen and appetizing.
2. Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis
If you accidentally fall and sprain your body with blood stasis, you can also eat some hawthorn to relieve it, which can alleviate the state of local blood stasis and have a certain auxiliary treatment effect on the fall and sprain.
3, strong heart fitness
Eating hawthorn often also has the functions of preventing cardiovascular diseases and strengthening the heart and body. For the elderly, eating some hawthorn properly is of great benefit to the health.
Step 4 lower blood pressure
Scientific research has proved that hawthorn has a long-lasting antihypertensive effect and is a good food for patients with hypertension. But friends with low blood pressure should not eat hawthorn, so as not to endanger their health.
Second, the role of hawthorn
1, beauty beauty
Many friends don't understand the efficacy and function of hawthorn, because the water extract of hawthorn can scavenge O/2 free radicals, which can play an antioxidant role, thus slowing down the aging speed of people, making the skin firmer and smoother, and playing the role of beauty beauty.
2. Auxiliary anti-cancer
Hawthorn extract can effectively inhibit the anticancer effect of aflatoxin. For people at high risk of digestive tract cancer, regular consumption of hawthorn can play an auxiliary anti-cancer role.
3. Irregular menstruation