Mulberry, known as the "Oriental Shenmu", is rich in treasures! What do you know about mulberry and mulberry leaves?
I still remember when I was a child, I bought a silkworm baby on my way to school, raised it with mulberry leaves and watched it break into moths step by step.
Mulberry is a treasure, not a hollow reputation. Known as the "Oriental Shenmu". For many people, the existence of mulberry seems to be just delicious mulberry and mulberry leaves as raw materials for sericulture.
But as far as medicinal value is concerned, mulberry is really a real treasure, because mulberry leaves, mulberries, mulberry branches and even the roots of mulberry bark can be used as medicine.
First, mulberry leaves
When it comes to mulberry leaves, we have to mention silkworms, because mulberry leaves are the favorite food of silkworms, and silk is the main raw material of ancient textiles. This has to mention that the Silk Road, which is of great significance to promoting national integration and artistic and cultural exchanges, is a bit far away. ...
In terms of medicinal value, Chinese medicine believes that mulberry leaves are sweet, bitter and cold in nature, and belong to lung and liver meridians. Has the effects of expelling pathogenic wind, clearing away heat, clearing lung-heat, moistening dryness, clearing liver-fire and improving eyesight. Used for wind-heat cold, lung-heat dry cough, dizziness, headache, red eyes and fainting. Cantonese people often drink herbal tea "Xiasangju", which contains mulberry leaves. Frosted mulberry leaves are the best mulberry leaves, and frost is the mulberry leaves after the first frost. At this time, if mulberry leaves are used as medicine, the effect of moistening lung and relieving cough, calming liver and improving eyesight is the best.
I still remember when I was at school, the teacher always said: Frosted mulberry leaves, frosted mulberry leaves, what role does frosted mulberry leaves have? After the first frost, it is easy to cough in autumn, so the frosted mulberry leaves have the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving cough.
The tender leaves of mulberry leaves can also be eaten as vegetables, and you can usually do some diet therapy of mulberry leaves.
Recommended recipe: mulberry leaf medlar pig liver soup
Practice: First, put mulberry leaves and medlar into a pot, add water, and cook for about 15 minutes on medium fire. Add pig liver and cook until cooked, and add appropriate amount of salt.
Second, Mulberry
Mulberry, have you all eaten? Sweet and sour, mulberries are also called mulberries, dates and mulberries.
Also known as "folk sacred fruit", because its nutrition is 5 ~ 6 times that of apples and 4 times that of grapes, and it has many functions, it is praised as "the best health fruit in 2 1 century" by the medical community.
I remember Lu Xun wrote an article in primary school, "Needless to say, green flower beds, smooth stone wells, tall acacia trees, purple mulberry trees ..." This is my impression of Mulberry when I was a child.
In fact, mulberry is not only a delicious wild fruit, but also a good product for nourishing yin and enriching blood.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mulberry is sweet and cool, non-toxic, and has the effects of tonifying kidney, solidifying essence, blackening hair, nourishing blood and nourishing yin, moistening dryness and promoting fluid production, calming the heart and calming the nerves.
Therefore, people who are young, fair-skinned, yin deficiency of liver and kidney, sallow complexion caused by intestinal dryness and constipation, dizziness, insomnia and dreaminess can eat some mulberries, which has the effect of improving eyesight.
For those who need to stay up late to work overtime or study, or often watch mobile phones and computers, it can relieve eye fatigue and dryness.
Modern research has found that mulberry contains sugar, vitamins, carotene and trace elements necessary for human body. It can effectively expand human blood volume, quickly supplement nutrition, promote hematopoiesis and enhance immunity.
Recommended recipe: Mulberry, red dates and black rice porridge.
Practice: Mulberry and black rice should be boiled for 20 minutes. When the porridge is sticky, add red dates and cook for 10 minutes.
It has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, clearing ears, improving eyesight, and resisting aging, and is suitable for aging symptoms such as tinnitus, deafness and vertigo caused by liver and kidney deficiency.
Third, mulberry bark
Mulberry root bark, also called mulberry bark, can also be used as medicine. Dig mulberry roots in winter and spring, and scrape off the outer yellow-brown rough skin. The root bark inside is called mulberry bark in Chinese medicine.
Chinese medicine believes that mulberry bark is sweet and cold, and has the effects of clearing away lung heat, relieving asthma, diuresis and detumescence. It can be used for cough and asthma due to lung heat, acne due to lung wind, edema of face and limbs, etc.
Mulberry bark can not only act on the lung, but also clear the liver and soothe the nerves, so it is often used to treat and relieve hypertension with hyperactivity of liver yang. Experiments show that the extract of mulberry bark has obvious and lasting antihypertensive effect on animals.
Fourth, mulberry branches
Mulberry branches are also a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, and twigs are the first choice.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mulberry branches are bitter in taste and flat in nature, which can dispel wind and remove dampness, dredge meridians and remove dampness. It is mainly used for treating rheumatic pain, apoplexy hemiplegia, edema, beriberi, wind itching, shoulder-arm joint pain and numbness.
You can take it with boiled water, or with boiled water of Gleditsia sinensis and willow branches.
Medicinal mulberry
Mulberry has the function of nourishing liver and kidney. It is taken together with Alpinia oxyphylla, Angelica sinensis, Astragalus membranaceus, Arillus Longan and Jujube, and has the functions of improving intelligence, nourishing heart and strengthening spleen. It can be used to treat amnesia, dizziness, insomnia, palpitation and other symptoms caused by excessive thinking. It can also supplement premature babies and mentally retarded people.
According to herbal records, mulberry can be "black beard and black hair". Mulberry, Polygonum Multiflori Radix and Sheng Di can nourish yin and blood, with black beard and black hair.
Mulberry, adzuki bean, coix seed and winter melon seeds can treat malnutrition edema, such as edema of face and lower limbs, abdominal distension and loose stool.
Mulberry and jujube are combined together. Platycladus orientalis , polygala tenuifolia, poria cocos, etc. Has the effects of nourishing heart, invigorating spleen, nourishing blood and calming nerves. It can be used to treat palpitation, insomnia, dizziness and other symptoms caused by deficiency of both heart and spleen and deficiency of qi and blood, and also has certain conditioning and nourishing effects on postpartum physical weakness.
Mulberry is prepared with Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Dipsaci, Radix Astragali, Atractylodis Rhizoma, Radix Paeoniae Alba, cuttlefish bone and Cologne. It has the effects of invigorating spleen, oozing blood, tonifying kidney and relieving swelling, and can be used for treating metrorrhagia and metrorrhagia caused by deficiency of both spleen and kidney. Symptoms include back pain, abdominal distension, dizziness, palpitation, pale tongue and thready pulse.
Mulberry.
The wild mulberry we often eat is actually a kind of Chinese medicine. What can be cured?
The source is the ear of mulberry in Moraceae. Location: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, Sichuan and other places. It is usually harvested from April to June, when the fruit is purplish red, dried or used fresh.
Synonyms for Mulberry, Jujube and Mulberry.
Cold, sweet and sour.
Entering the heart, liver and kidney meridians.
Function: Nourish liver and kidney, promote fluid production and moisten dryness. It is mainly used for treating yin deficiency of liver and kidney, dizziness, tinnitus, palpitation and insomnia, premature graying of hair, thirst due to body fluid injury, thirst due to internal heat, intestinal dryness and constipation.
Ingredients include sugar, malic acid, B vitamins, vitamin C, carotene, etc.
Suitable for people. This product can promote cellular immunity and humoral immunity. Clinically, it is also used to treat constipation, which can be used by people with weak constitution.
Precautions: Do not eat duck eggs, and be careful with diarrhea due to deficiency of spleen and stomach. Don't overeat. In severe cases, hemorrhagic enteritis and nosebleeds may occur.
Usage and dosage After decoction, the usual dosage is 9 ~15g each time; Boiling ointment can be used in large doses, 30 ~ 50g. Cooking methods such as frying, boiling, stewing and steaming can be used to make medicated diet and health food.
Food and practical application
Many foods have anti-aging effects, and mulberry is one of them. Such as mulberry, medlar, longan, walnut, royal jelly, yam and other foods, all contain anti-aging substances, which have certain anti-aging and longevity effects. Choosing the right food often is beneficial to health and longevity.
There are many kinds of food made of mulberry, such as mulberry porridge made of mulberry, glutinous rice and rock sugar, which has a certain therapeutic effect on dizziness, insomnia and forgetfulness. Mulberry enters the liver and kidney meridian, and glutinous rice enters the spleen meridian, which has the functions of nourishing liver and kidney, tonifying middle energizer and benefiting qi. The theory of drug meridian tropism is also the theory of medicated diet.
As mentioned above, mulberry can treat constipation due to intestinal dryness, and the medicated diet made from the following mulberry naturally has the effect of treating internal heat, intestinal dryness due to yin deficiency and difficulty in defecation. The so-called medicated diet refers to a medicated diet with the functions of relaxing bowels, promoting digestion, clearing away heat and purging fire, and the lower part of the medicated diet is mostly moist. Mulberry medicated diet for constipation can be cooked with mulberry sugar and white sugar until it is thick, then added with crushed mulberry powder, cooked with a shovel until it doesn't stick to your hands, shredded, poured into a dish coated with sesame oil, cooled and cut into strips. Has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, nourishing yin and nourishing yin, and can be used for treating constipation due to yin deficiency and blood deficiency.
Mulberry diet therapy
constipation
The secret of blood deficiency
[Clinical manifestations]
Dry stool, dull complexion, dizziness, palpitation, forgetfulness, or red cheekbones, tinnitus, pale tongue, thready pulse, or red tongue with little fur and thready pulse.
【 dietotherapy and medicated diet 】
Mulberry and rehmannia honey cream: 500 grams of mulberry, 200 grams of raw rehmannia, and appropriate amount of honey. Wash mulberry and rehmannia, and add appropriate amount of water to fry. Take the decoction every 30 minutes, add water and then decoct, * * * take the decoction twice, combine the decoctions, decoct with slow fire and concentrate, add honey once until it is thick, stop boiling and bottle for later use.
Chronic pyelonephritis
Deficiency of both qi and yin, damp-heat stagnation (this period is equivalent to acute attack or recent recurrent attack of chronic pyelonephritis)
Frequent urination, frequent stranguria, recurrent attacks, especially at work, accompanied by dizziness, tinnitus, fatigue, hyperhidrosis, soreness of the waist and knees, red tongue with little fur and weak pulse.
Mulberry and yam millet porridge: 30g of mulberry, 30g of yam, 30g of coix seed, 0/0g of jujube/kloc and 60g of millet. The above five kinds of porridge are boiled in the usual way.
Anemia in children
Yin deficiency of liver and kidney
Proud complexion, dry skin, hot flashes and night sweats, red tongue with little coating, and rapid pulse.
Mulberry porridge: fresh mulberry 15g, 50g of japonica rice, and proper amount of honey. Boil porridge with japonica rice and proper amount of water. When the rice is cooked, add mulberry and honey and cook until the rice is cooked.