Can drinking mulberry leaf tea lower blood sugar?
"Mulberry leaf tea can lower blood sugar. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the abnormal blood sugar in the body is classified as so-called diabetes. Why blood sugar can cause diabetes? This is mainly because other organs in the body, such as epithelial organs, kidney organs, liver organs, etc., have decreased their functions and are too weak, which leads to diabetes. Today, the mulberry leaves mentioned by us not only have the functions of improving eyesight, benefiting liver, moistening dryness and clearing lung, eliminating wind-heat and so on, but also have a certain effect on the emergence of heat syndrome, deficiency-cold-heat syndrome and other problems. Mulberry leaves are fine and sweet, chewed a little sweet and sticky, which can not only improve eyesight, but also play a role in relieving cough. Therefore, in traditional Chinese medicine, mulberry leaves have the function of lowering blood sugar. From the perspective of western medicine, it has been confirmed by relevant experiments that the research on the mechanism of diabetic mice induced by oxypyrimidine, after inducing diabetes in mice by oxymidine, then observing the mulberry leaves of different groups of them, and recording the liver glycogen and blood sugar levels of each group. Finally, through the collation of relevant data, it is shown that mulberry leaves do have a lowering effect on the blood sugar levels in mice, and the results of the study of different groups of mulberry leaves all show the data of lowering blood sugar. The reason for this is mainly because mulberry leaves are rich in certain alkaloids and polysaccharides. Their existence can promote the synthesis of liver glycogen in mice and greatly increase the amount of liver glycogen, thus playing a certain role in lowering blood sugar in the body. To sum up, mulberry leaf tea can indeed lower blood sugar from the perspective of Chinese medicine and western medicine. "
Can drinking mulberry leaf tea lower blood pressure
In fact, many middle-aged and elderly people suffer from high blood pressure. When blood vessels can't fully contain blood, blood pressure will rise. Aminobutyric acid contained in mulberry leaves can effectively lower blood pressure. Drinking mulberry leaf tea regularly can also reduce blood fat, and it also has the effect of losing weight and beautifying.
What is the effect of soaking mulberry leaves in water?
1, can be used to treat wind-heat
Mulberry leaves are suitable for people with wind-heat cold, and have the effects of dispelling wind-heat, clearing away lung heat and moistening dryness. If there are symptoms of cold and sore throat, they can be mixed with chrysanthemum and platycodon grandiflorum to make tea, which has certain effects on dispelling wind-heat, anti-inflammation and disinfection.
2. It is beneficial to liver health and clearing away liver fire.
Mulberry leaves are cold in nature, have the efficacy of clearing away heat and toxic materials, and can clear liver fire to a certain extent. Mulberry leaves are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, which can effectively reduce the fat content in blood, reduce the burden on the liver, and clear and nourish the liver.
3, it is conducive to laxative.
Soaking mulberry leaves in water can help regulate intestinal health and improve constipation under certain conditions. At the same time, mulberry leaves have certain effects on clearing lung heat and moistening lung dryness, and can inhibit the continuous reproduction of harmful bacteria to a certain extent.
4. Effectively relieve gum swelling and pain.
When gum swelling and sore throat are caused by excessive internal heat, you can soak a proper amount of mulberry leaf water to relieve sore throat and toothache.
5, can effectively treat dizziness.
At present, many office workers are under great work pressure, and their bodies are in a sub-health state for a long time. It is also recorded in the Manual of Chinese Herbal Medicine in Shandong Province that soaking mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum, medlar and cassia seed in water can effectively treat dizziness.
6. It is conducive to reducing the "three highs"
Mulberry leaves are rich in alkaloids, polysaccharides, unsaturated fatty acids and other substances. Patients with "three highs" can soak mulberry leaves instead of tea in daily life, which has a certain effect on lowering blood sugar, blood lipid and blood pressure.
7, conducive to "hair growth"
Decocting mulberry leaves with water for washing hair has a certain curative effect on alopecia and white hair, and can effectively reduce dandruff. It is also recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that "mulberry leaves can improve eyesight and grow long hair." It shows that mulberry leaves can nourish scalp and is beneficial to hair growth.
8. beauty beauty
There are many benefits of soaking mulberry leaves in water. After the mulberry leaves are frosted, the leaves on the trees will begin to wither, and then the mulberry leaves with high medicinal value will be left on the branches. Soaking in water can achieve the functions of freckle removal and beauty preservation.
Health care effect of mulberry leaf tea
Mulberry leaf tea is brewed with boiling water, which is clear and bright, fragrant and sweet, fresh and refreshing. It provides a new type of drink, especially for middle-aged and elderly people and people who are not suitable for drinking tea, so that they can get certain health care effects in the process of drinking tea. Drinking this tea often is beneficial to health care.
1, Mulberry leaf tea contains more folic acid, and each gram of mulberry leaf contains about folic acid 100ug. It can participate in the synthesis of nucleic acid, achieve the effect of anti-anemia and promoting growth, and can treat malnutrition, rash and other diseases, which is beneficial to human health.
2. Mulberry leaf tea contains high content of flavonoids and morin. Flavonoids can effectively slow down the aging of human body and delay aging, and have a cosmetic effect; Mulberry glycoside has the functions of cooling and improving eyesight, calming the liver and calming the wind.
3. Mulberry leaf tea is rich in potassium, calcium, iron, vitamin A, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin C, folic acid, copper, zinc and other trace elements needed by human body, which has the function of assisting the metabolism of "three highs".
So, let's go back to Dr. Wang's consistent point of view. If you like this taste or have the habit of drinking mulberry leaf tea, you can continue to drink it, but don't expect a drink to save lives, at most, it will play a health care role.