The Spring Festival is coming to an end, and spring is coming.

As the saying goes, "The plan for a year lies in spring." Spring is the season of recovery for all things. As the temperature gradually warms up, the grass gradually turns green, and some leaves begin to sprout green buds.

Mulberry trees can be seen in many rural areas.

This is a well-known tree, and its leaves are the first choice for feeding silkworms.

Like in the past, many rural children liked to raise silkworms. At that time, they would eat enough for the silkworm babies and grow up quickly. They would climb trees and pick fresh mulberry leaves almost every day.

But in the eyes of most people, mulberry leaves can only be used to feed silkworms.

Little did they know that its value has always been underestimated, and now it is even eaten as a wild vegetable and is very popular in the city.

Although mulberry trees are common in rural areas, this tree is full of treasures.

Like many rural children, mulberries are not only delicious but also have high nutritional value. They can also be used as medicine.

In ancient times, people also called mulberries the "holy folk fruit" because they are rich in nutrients and have the same source of medicine and food. They are basically suitable for men, women, old and young.

In addition, Phellinus linteus, a wild ear-like fungus that grows on mulberry trees, is even more valuable today.

But today’s focus is on mulberry leaves. Don’t underestimate mulberry leaves. They have a long history. They were called “fairy leaves” in ancient times.

The history of eating mulberry leaves in my country is very long. As early as 3,000 years ago, there are records of mulberry leaves being used as medicine in the oracle bone inscriptions unearthed from the Shang Dynasty.

In rural areas, some experienced people often pick mulberry leaves to make tea.

So what is the value of mulberry leaves?

First of all, as mentioned before, mulberry leaves can be used to make tea.

There are many leaves in our country that can be used to make tea, among which mulberry leaves have a very long history of making tea.

Generally, mulberry leaves picked after the frost festival are processed and dried.

Moreover, mulberry leaf tea not only has the same effect as tea, but also because it is rich in flavonoids, it can also help to relax blood vessels, increase coronary and cerebral blood flow, and reduce blood viscosity, thus playing a beneficial role.

Auxiliary antihypertensive effect.

Therefore, for some patients with high blood pressure, drinking mulberry leaves soaked in water can also have a good health care effect.

It is worth mentioning that the price of tea made from mulberry leaves in the market has always been high, even several times more expensive than many teas!

Secondly, mulberry leaves can be used as medicine.

The use of mulberry leaves as medicine is recorded in many medical books in ancient my country, including Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica".

In addition, the "Ben Cao Tu Jing" also pointed out that mulberry leaves are cold in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, and regular consumption can prolong life.

This actually makes sense, because from the perspective of modern nutrition, mulberry leaves are rich in nutrients. The flavonoids, alkaloids and other substances contained in them are very active in regulating the three highs and protecting blood vessels.

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The last point is that mulberry leaves are also an excellent wild vegetable.

Mulberry leaves are eaten by silkworms, how can humans eat them?

Isn't this meant to deceive people?

In fact, it is not surprising that mulberry leaves can be used in cooking. Since they can be used to make tea and be used as medicine, it is not surprising that they can be used in cooking.

Now that conditions are better, few people eat mulberry leaves anymore.

But when there was famine in the past, mulberry leaves were a very popular wild vegetable.

And in recent years, there has been a wave of eating mulberry leaves in some big cities in China.

As a new type of vegetable, it is very popular.

However, unlike the mulberry leaves used for making tea, the mulberry leaves used for cooking are usually picked from the fresh buds and leaves of its branches in spring for cooking.

Especially after the SARS epidemic in 2003, mulberry leaves continued to attract everyone's attention as a medicinal material, which led to a wave of eating mulberry leaves as a wild vegetable.

What's more worth mentioning is that in some big cities such as Shanghai and Guangzhou, mulberry leaves are not only served on the dining tables by some hotels and farmhouses, but their prices are also eye-catching, and they are actually more expensive than meat.

Also affected by this, the idea that mulberry leaves can be eaten as wild vegetables has become the focus of discussion among netizens in China.

A new term also emerged - mulberry sprouts, which are the sprouts of mulberry leaves.

When mulberry leaves became popular as vegetables, a variety of delicacies using mulberry leaves as the main raw material also evolved, such as mulberry leaf vegetable cakes, mulberry leaf pastries and other ingredients.