Eliminating edema, reducing blood fat and expelling toxin: Mulberry leaves are rich in high-quality protein, crude fiber, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, manganese and other nutrients, which have the functions of promoting metabolism, clearing blood, relaxing bowels and so on. In addition, it can drain excess water accumulated in cells and improve edema.
Quercetin, phenolic compounds and vitamin C contained in mulberry leaves can prevent oxidative damage by inhibiting or scavenging free radicals. Mulberry leaves have tonic, anti-aging and nervous system function similar to ginseng.
It can relieve emotional excitement caused by physiological changes, improve the activity of superoxide dismutase in vivo, prevent the production of harmful substances in vivo, and reduce or eliminate lipofuscin that has been produced and accumulated in vivo.
The growing environment of mulberry leaves
Like light, it has strong adaptability to climate and soil. Cold-resistant, can withstand the low temperature of -40℃, drought-resistant, water-resistant and wet-resistant, and can also grow in a warm and humid environment. I like deep, loose and fertile soil, and can tolerate mild salinity (0.2%). Wind resistance, smoke resistance and toxic gas resistance. Developed root system, fast growth, strong germination, pruning resistance, long life, generally up to hundreds of years, individual up to thousands of years.
There are more than a thousand newly bred mulberry varieties. For example, there are two mulberry varieties groups in Zhejiang and Jiangsu: Husang and Huosang. Mulberry usually has thick and long branches, large leaf shape, late hardening and strong adaptability. There are red-skinned fire mulberry and white-skinned fire mulberry, and their new shoots and tender leaves are purplish red.
There is Jiading mulberry in Leshan, southern Sichuan, which has long branches and thin leaves with good quality. The crown mulberry branches in northeast Sichuan are thin and straight, and the skin color is blue and gray. There are lusang in Shandong, with short branches, dense nodes, early hardening and cold resistance.
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