Soaking mulberry leaves, safflower, and black sesame seeds in water can clear the liver and improve eyesight, dispel wind and cool blood, nourish the kidneys and nourish essence, and safflower can activate blood circulation and stimulate menstruation, and can also improve diabetes.
1. Mulberry leaves are the dried leaves of the moraceae plant Morus. It is harvested after the first frost, impurities are removed, and dried in the sun. It is a medicine for dispersing wind and heat, which can be taken internally or applied externally. It is cold in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, and has the effects of dispersing wind-heat, clearing the lungs and moisturizing, clearing the liver and improving eyesight. It can treat colds due to wind-heat, dry cough due to lung-heat, dizziness and headache, and red eyes and blurred vision.
Modern Chinese and Western medicine use mulberry leaves and mulberry leaf biological preparations as drugs to improve diabetes and various other difficult and complicated diseases, and believe that their medicinal effects are extremely broad. It has the functions of clearing the lungs and moisturizing, relieving cough, removing heat, resolving phlegm, and treating night sweats; nourishing the liver, clearing the liver and improving eyesight, treating dizziness, insomnia, and eliminating eye fatigue; reducing swelling and clearing blood, treating dysentery, abdominal pain, weight loss, and detoxification. Athlete's foot, diuretic, small intestine; anti-stress, cooling blood, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, preventing myocardial infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, getting rid of headaches, growing hair; lowering blood sugar, anti-sugar disease, etc.
2. Functions and indications of safflower: promoting blood circulation and promoting menstruation, removing blood stasis and relieving pain. It can be used to treat amenorrhea, abscesses, dystocia, stillbirth, postpartum lochia, blood stasis and pain, carbuncles, and injuries caused by falls.
Black sesame seeds are used as medicine and food. They have health effects such as "tonifying the liver and kidneys, nourishing the five internal organs, replenishing essence and blood, and moisturizing the intestines." It is regarded as a sacred nourishing product. On the one hand, it is because it contains high-quality protein and rich minerals; on the other hand, it is because it is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, vitamin E and precious sesamin and melanin.