Mulberry itself belongs to the fruit, cleaned can be eaten. Mulberry not only have nourishing Yin and blood, raw Jin, laxative effect.

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Mulberry most dense into an ovoid or oblong polyfloral fruit, by most of the collection of small drupes, oblong, 2-3cm long, 1.2-1.8cm in diameter. green at the time of ripening, ripening into a fleshy, black-purple or red, the seeds are small, the flowering period of 3-5 months, the fruiting period of May-June.

The mulberry is green when young and has a sour taste, while it is purple and black when old and ripe, juicy and sweet. Chinese medicine believes that the mulberry tonic liver and kidney, nourishing yin and nourishing blood, resting the wind, with the main treatment of palpitations and insomnia, dizziness, tinnitus, constipation and night sweating, scrofula, joints and other diseases.

Mulberry fruit is rich in active protein, vitamins, amino acids, carotenoids, minerals, resveratrol, anthocyanins and so on.

Mulberry has the role of thirst, promote digestion, help defecation, etc. Moderate consumption can promote gastric secretion, stimulate intestinal peristalsis and relieve dry heat. According to the motherland medicine, mulberry is sweet and cold in nature, has the effect of tonifying the liver and kidney, generating fluids and moistening the intestines, and making the hair and eyes bright.

Precautions for eating mulberry:

Mulberry is cold, it is best not to eat at the same time with the bitter melon, lily, diamond meat and other cool fruits. The person who has loose stools in the spleen and stomach, and pregnant women are forbidden to take.

Source: Mulberry - Baidu Encyclopedia