What are the functions of the traditional Chinese medicine mulberry leaf?

Do you know what mulberry leaves are? When I was a child, I often climbed up mulberry trees to pick mulberries to eat. Some supermarkets still sell them now. But the ones in the supermarket don’t taste the same as they did when I was a kid. Many families pick mulberry leaves to feed silkworms. Apart from this, it is hard for us to think of any other uses for mulberry leaves. People who study medicine know that mulberry leaves have medicinal value. Do you want to know what its medicinal uses are?

Benefits of mulberry leaves:

Dispel wind-heat, clear the lungs and moisten dryness, clear the liver and improve eyesight. Used for wind-heat cold, lung heat and dry cough, dizziness, headache, red and blurred eyes.

1. Dispel wind-heat: used for wind-heat cold and red and swollen eyes, often with chrysanthemum.

2. Clear the liver and improve eyesight: used for eye diseases caused by wind and fire (such as acute conjunctivitis). It is made of Sang Ma Wan with black sesame seeds and is used to treat dizziness and blurred vision caused by liver-yin deficiency and liver-yang hyperactivity.

3. Clear the lungs and moisten dryness: Used for lung heat and dry cough: This product is bitter and cold, clears lung heat, sweet and cold, nourishes yin, cools and moistens dry lungs, so it can be used for dry heat damaging the lungs, dry cough with little sputum. In mild cases, it can be used together with apricot kernel, adenophora, Fritillaria, etc., such as Sangxing Decoction; in severe cases, it can be used together with gypsum, Ophiopogon japonicus, donkey-hide gelatin, etc.

Functions of mulberry leaves:

1. Mulberry leaves are good at dispersing wind-heat and relieving lung heat. They are often used in combination with chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, mint, peucedanum, platycodon, etc. for exogenous wind-heat, headache, cough, etc. Mulberry leaves can not only be used to treat red eyes and photophobia caused by wind-heat, but also can clear liver fire. For red and swollen eyes caused by liver fire, it can be used in combination with chrysanthemum, cassia seed, plantain seed, etc. As for liver yin deficiency and blurred vision, mulberry leaves can also be used together with Ligustrum lucidum, wolfberry, black sesame, etc. which nourish the liver and kidneys.

2. Mulberry leaves are light and dispersing, and can disperse wind-heat, but the effect is weak. It is mainly used clinically to clear the lungs and liver, such as wind-heat attacking the lungs, cough with a lot of sputum, or dryness and heat damaging the lungs, dry cough without sputum; as well as wind-heat attacking the lungs or liver fire inflammation, red and swollen eyes, etc. It is a commonly used medicine. When combined with burdock seed and peucedanum, it can dispel wind and clear the lungs; when combined with gypsum and ophiopogon japonicus, it can clear dryness and moisten the lungs; when combined with chrysanthemum and cassia seed, it can clear the liver and improve eyesight.

3. Mulberry leaves have an antispasmodic effect.

4. Mulberry leaves have anti-pathogenic microorganism effects. In vitro tests showed that mulberry leaf decoction had a certain inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, beta-hemolytic Streptococcus, Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Escherichia coli. In addition, it can also kill Leptospira.

5. Mulberry leaves have anti-inflammatory effects.

In addition, mulberry leaves also have the effect of lowering blood sugar. The ecdysterone it contains has a hypoglycemic effect on increased blood sugar induced by various methods and can promote the conversion of glucose into glycogen, but does not change the blood sugar of normal animals. Do you think that the seemingly ordinary things we take in daily life have high medicinal value? For the specific use of mulberry leaves, you should go to a regular hospital and ask the doctor for advice.