I still remember the excitement of buying silkworm babies on my way to school when I was a child, raising them with mulberry leaves and watching them break into moths step by step.
Mulberry is full of treasures, not a hollow reputation. It is 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 mulberry root 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 used in textiles in ancient times.
This has to mention the Silk Road, which is of great significance in promoting national integration and artistic and cultural exchanges.
A little far-fetched
In terms of medicinal value, Chinese medicine believes that mulberry leaves are sweet, bitter and cold in nature, belonging to lung and liver meridians, and have the effects of dispelling wind and clearing heat, clearing lung and moistening dryness, clearing liver and improving eyesight, and can be used for wind-heat cold, lung-heat dry cough, dizziness and headache, blurred vision and other symptoms.
Like the herbal tea "Xiasangju" that Cantonese people often drink, there is a formula of mulberry leaves.
It is best to use frosted mulberry leaves for mulberry leaves. Frost is mulberry leaves after the first frost. At this time, mulberry leaves have the best effect of moistening lung, relieving cough, calming liver and improving eyesight.
I still remember when I was at school, the teacher always said: what is the role of frosted mulberry leaves, frosted mulberry leaves and frosted mulberry leaves? 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 can also be eaten as vegetables, and some mulberry leaves can be used as diet therapy at ordinary times.
Recommended recipe: mulberry leaf medlar pig liver soup
Practice: First, put mulberry leaves and medlar into a pot, add water, boil in a hot pot for about 15 minutes, add pork liver and roll until cooked, and add appropriate amount of salt.
Second, Mulberry
Mulberry, has everyone eaten? Sweet and sour, Mulberry is also called Mulberry, Jujube, Mulberry Fruit and so on.
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 by the medical community as "the best health care fruit in 2 1 century".
I remember a Lu Xun article I learned in primary school, "Needless to say, green vegetable beds, polished stone hedges, acacia trees and purple mulberries". 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 sour, sweet, cold, nontoxic, enters the heart, liver and kidney meridians, and has the effects of tonifying kidney, consolidating essence, blackening beard and hair, nourishing blood and nourishing yin, moistening dryness and promoting fluid production, calming the heart and calming the nerves.
Therefore, young people with gray hair, dizziness, insomnia, dreaminess, yellow complexion and constipation caused by liver and kidney yin deficiency can eat some mulberries, which also have 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 essential trace elements, which can effectively expand human blood volume, quickly supplement nutrition, promote hematopoietic function and enhance immunity.
Recommended recipe: Mulberry, red dates and black rice porridge
Practice: Cook mulberries and black rice for 20 minutes, add red dates when the porridge is sticky, and then cook for 10 minute.
It has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, improving eyesight and resisting aging, and is suitable for aging symptoms such as tinnitus, deafness and blurred vision 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, scrape off the yellow-brown rough skin outside and peel off the root skin inside, which is what Chinese medicine calls mulberry skin.
Chinese medicine believes that mulberry bark tastes sweet and cold, has the effects of purging lung, relieving asthma, inducing diuresis and reducing swelling, and can be used for cough and asthma caused by lung heat, acne caused by lung wind and edema of face and limbs.
Mulberry bark can not only act on the lung, but also clear the liver and calm the liver, so it is also often used to treat and relieve hypertension with hyperactivity of liver yang. Through experiments, it is found 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 tender branches are better.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mulberry branches are bitter in taste and flat in nature, and can dispel wind and remove dampness, dredge meridians and promote water vapor, and can be used for treating rheumatism, stroke, hemiplegia, edema, beriberi, wind itching, pain and numbness of shoulder and arm joints.
You can boil it and drink it, or you can take it with boiling water such as Sophora branches and willow branches.
Compendium of Materia Medica: "Mulberry twig, devoted to rheumatism contracture, got cassia twig to treat shoulder and arm pain;" I made the branches of locust, willow and peach trees itch. "
Modern pharmacological research: Mulberry branches have strong anti-inflammatory activity, which can improve lymphocyte transformation rate, increase peripheral white blood cells, promote intestinal peristalsis and enhance immune function.
Mulberry branches can also soak feet and add some ginger, which can dispel wind and cold, treat colds, relieve rheumatism and arthritis symptoms and help improve sleep.