Eating methods of mulberry leaves:

One, mulberry leaf porridge

Materials: 100 grams of fresh mulberry leaves, fresh lotus leaves 1, 100 grams of round-grained rice, sugar.

Practice: fresh mulberry leaves, fresh lotus leaves, wash and decoction, take the juice to slag, add round-grained rice (washed) with the porridge, blended into the sugar can be adjusted.

Two, mulberry chrysanthemum soybean tea

Materials: 20 grams of mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum 15 grams of soybean 60 grams, 30 grams of sugar.

Practice: soak soybeans, mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum together with the right amount of water, decocted to remove the dregs, into the sugar, to be dissolved to drink. Once every night.

Three, mulberry leaves pig liver soup

Materials: 200 grams of fresh mulberry leaves, pig liver 300 grams.

Practice: mulberry leaves Xian clean, pig liver slices, with water soup, cooking about 60 minutes, seasoned with salt can be.

4, mulberry leaf pork bone soup

Materials: 300 grams of fresh mulberry leaves, pork bone (pig moon show is also OK) 500 grams, honey dates 3.

Practice: Mulberry leaves washed and drained, pork bone Xian clean and spare; tile pot filled with water, put pork bone and honey dates with high heat with the boil to roll, and then into the mulberry leaves boil for about 1 hour, see the soup is thick can be seasoned to taste.

Expanded

One, the efficacy of mulberry leaves

1, clearing the liver and eyesight

For wind and fire eye disease (such as acute conjunctivitis). With black sesame name mulberry pill, used for liver yin deficiency, liver yang hyperactivity caused by dizziness, blurred vision.

2, evacuation of wind-heat

For wind-heat colds and eye redness and swelling, often with chrysanthemum.

3, clearing the lungs and moistening dryness

For lung-heat and dry cough, this product is bitter and cold to clear lung heat, sweet and cold yin, cool and moisten the lungs and dryness, so it can be used for dry heat injury to the lungs, dry cough and less phlegm, light can be used with almonds, salvia, shellfish, such as sang apricot soup; the heavier can be used with gypsum maitake and gelatin, and so on.

Two, the role of mulberry leaves

1, hypoglycemic effect

Since ancient times, traditional Chinese medicine will be mulberry leaves as the treatment of thirst (i.e., diabetes in modern medicine) of traditional Chinese medicine used in clinical practice, the Japanese ancient book "eating tea to maintain life" also recorded mulberry leaves have improved "drinking water disease" (i.e., diabetes in modern medicine). (i.e. modern medicine's diabetes mellitus). Domestic and foreign research data confirm that alkaloids and polysaccharides are the main hypoglycemic components of mulberry leaves.

2, antipathogenic microbial effect

Mulberry leaf decoction in vitro test on Staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic streptococcus B, diphtheria and Escherichia coli have a certain inhibitory effect. In addition, it can also kill leptospira.

3, hypotensive effect

Mulberry leaves in the rutin, quercetin, quercetin can increase the isolated and in situ frog heart contractility and output, and reduce heart rate. Rutin causes vasoconstriction in the lower limbs of toads and rabbit ears, and quercetin dilates coronary blood vessels and improves myocardial circulation. γ-aminobutyric acid, rutin, and quercetin have blood pressure-lowering effects. γ-Aminobutyric acid is a neurotransmitter that promotes metabolism of brain tissues and restores the function of brain cells, and, at the same time, improves the flow of blood to the brain, enhances angiotensin-converting enzyme Ⅰ activity, and contributes to the decrease of blood pressure.

4, improve intestinal function, laxative and weight loss

Mulberry leaves in the DNJ minerals and unabsorbed sugars in the small intestine into the large intestine by the role of intestinal flora caused by the fermentation, the production of butyric acid, propionic acid, lactic acid, acetic acid and other organic acids, so that the intestinal environment becomes acidic, the intestinal contents of the acidity increases, can inhibit the proliferation of harmful bacteria, to play a regulation of the intestinal tract, improve constipation

5, antispasmodic, anti-ulcer effect

Mulberry leaves in the quercetin can reduce intestinal, bronchial smooth muscle tone, its antispasmodic effect is stronger than the rue glucoside, rue glucoside can reduce gastric motility in rats, and can be lifted by barium chloride-induced spasm of small intestinal smooth muscle, subcutaneous injection of rue glucoside 5-10 mg/kg can significantly reduce the number of foci of gastric ulcers in rats due to ligation of pylorus.

References

Mulberry Leaf (Morus alba) - Baidu Encyclopedia