Toxicity of mulberry leaves

Mulberry leaves are a common Chinese medicine. In fact, many friends use mulberry leaves to make tea in their daily lives. This is because mulberry leaves have the effect of removing lung heat. Friends who use mulberry leaves also need to understand some of the properties of mulberry leaves, such as clearing the liver and improving eyesight, anti-inflammatory and swelling, etc. You need to be cautious about eating mulberries, because mulberries contain trypsin inhibitors, which can easily lead to poisoning in the body.

What are the effects of mulberry leaves and what are the benefits of eating mulberry leaves?

1. Calming the nerves

Fresh mulberry leaves are rich in chlorophyll and have a faint fragrance. Drinking water soaked with mulberry leaves can have a certain calming effect.

2. Lower blood sugar

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mulberry leaves are a very good Chinese medicinal material. Mulberry leaves contain polysaccharides, biotin, flavonoids, polyphenols and other effective ingredients. Among them, polysaccharides are the important active ingredients in mulberry leaves. They can be used to repair pancreatic cells and have a significant effect on lowering blood sugar. Experiments have shown that mulberry leaves can improve the glucose tolerance of diabetic mice, increase the content of liver glycogen and reduce liver glucose levels. One hundred grams of mulberry leaves contain one hundred milligrams of biotin, which is a glycosidase inhibitor. Mulberry leaves are also rich in amino acids and phytol, which is three to four times the content of green tea. These substances have the effects of weight loss, beauty, and lowering blood sugar. Therefore, mulberry leaves are a very good thing for people who love beauty, obese people, and diabetic patients.

3. Remove lung heat

Mulberry leaves soaked in water can remove lung heat. If you have symptoms of lung heat or dryness and heat damaging the lungs, such as coughing with little sputum, dry nasopharynx, etc., mulberry leaf tea can effectively remove lung heat.

4. Clear the liver and improve eyesight

Mulberry leaf tea can treat dizziness. Mulberry leaves can relieve the symptoms of dizziness caused by liver yang and red and blurred eyes. This is because boiling mulberry leaves in water has the effect of calming liver yang, clearing the liver and improving eyesight. It is more effective to use mulberry leaves together with chrysanthemum and other heat-clearing Chinese herbs to make tea.

5. Anti-inflammatory and anti-swelling

Mulberry leaf juice has an inhibitory effect on most Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, and also has an inhibitory effect on the growth of some yeasts. Therefore, mulberry leaves have a good anti-inflammatory and detumescent effect. If you have inflammation in your body, you might as well drink more mulberry leaf water to help your body recover.

Taboo

Mulberries are the fruit clusters of the mulberry tree and can be used as medicine. Mulberries contain vitamins, carotene, volatile oils, trypsin inhibitors, etc.

The latter is the main toxic component. Improper consumption may cause poisoning.

Toxicity: The volatile oil contained in mulberry is irritating to the digestive tract; trypsin inhibitors can inhibit a variety of digestive enzymes in the intestine, especially trypsin activity, which makes it unable to destroy type C Clostridium perfringens B toxin and can cause hemorrhagic enteritis.

Symptoms of poisoning: Nausea, vomiting, weakness, severe abdominal pain and diarrhea may occur after eating mulberries. Bloody stools, low blood pressure, shock, etc. may also occur. Severe cases can result in death.

Emergency treatment: Induce vomiting immediately by manual or drug means. After vomiting, give the patient 50g of activated carbon orally. If you experience severe abdominal pain, diarrhea, or especially bloody stools, you should go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment immediately.

Prevention of poisoning: Eat less raw mulberries or eat them after salting them.