Mulberry leaves, as long as you can use them well, are actually treasures.

Morus alba and Herba Cynanchum are good for treating diabetes and can eradicate the disease. Just drink it as tea, it is simple and delicious. The universal effect of mulberry leaves is that they can moisten the lungs, relieve coughs, relieve constipation, protect the eyes, beautify and prolong life. Lower blood lipids, blood sugar, blood pressure, treat fatty liver and supplement vitamins. Morus alba and Herba Potentillae can produce insulin and lower blood sugar, and Herba Potentillae is even more powerful. Mulberry leaves have the effects of ginseng and are not expensive. The combination of the two is powerful and more nutritious.

The beauty effects of mulberry leaves

The "Fusang Zhibao Pill" recorded in the ancient Chinese medical book "Baosheng Yaolu" has the effects of "maintaining beauty, blackening hair, replenishing marrow and essence, eliminating diseases and prolonging life". What are the medicinal ingredients in it? The answer will surprise you - mulberry leaves.

Mulberry leaves are indeed a good, inexpensive natural beauty and skin care product, especially for acne and brown spots on the face. Acne is an inflammatory skin disease common in young people. After entering puberty, the body's vigorous secretion of sex hormones increases, which in turn causes sebaceous glands to secrete more, leading to sebum accumulation, clogging the hair follicles and causing acne. In addition, Chinese medicine also believes that overeating greasy and spicy food, heat accumulation in the spleen and stomach, long-term constipation, and external evil invading the skin can also easily induce acne. Mulberry leaves have the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. Some people have tried using mulberry leaf decoction to treat 258 cases of acne, with an effective rate of 89%. Brown spots on the face often cause distress to many women.

Mulberry leaves taste delicious and have no side effects. Japan has used it to develop mulberry tea, which has health benefits. The tea is emerald green in color and is rich in high-quality protein, crude fiber, carbohydrates, as well as nutrients such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, manganese, etc., and does not contain caffeine and tannins found in tea. Mulberry tea is easy to drink, its nutrients are absorbed quickly, and it also has the functions of promoting metabolism, blood circulation, and eliminating fatigue. Bathing with mulberry leaves is also beneficial for beauty. Take 50-100 grams of dried mulberry leaves that have been frosted, put them in a pot, add water and boil for 10-15 minutes, then pour into a bathtub to cool before bathing. Mulberry leaves that have been baptized by frost and snow can relieve exterior symptoms without hurting the inside of the body, and protect the skin without degreasing it. They are a very good bodybuilding bath recipe and the best choice for people with rough skin, as they can make the skin become delicate and tender.

The method of making this prescription by ancient doctors is: "Choose tender mulberry leaves from the trees in your garden, pick dozens of pounds, wash with running water, remove the stems, dry in the sun, and grind into powder. For every pound of clean mulberry leaf powder, use four ounces of black sesame seeds, boil two bowls of thick juice with yin and yang water, remove the sesame seeds and keep the juice, use twelve ounces of honey, refine the water into beads, add the juice into the honey, and mix with the powder to make pills as big as sycamore seeds." You can "take 100 pills every day, with salt soup in the morning and wine in the evening" (delivery).

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that brown spots are caused by liver depression, blood deficiency, and wind-heat evils stagnate in the collaterals. The method of treatment with mulberry leaves is to take 500 grams of winter mulberry leaves, steam and disinfect them, remove impurities, dry them and set them aside. Take 15 grams daily and soak them in boiling water as tea. One course of treatment is one month. Generally, obvious therapeutic effects will be seen after 20 days of taking it, with plaques disappearing or pigmentation becoming lighter. During treatment, you should eat more soy products, such as tofu, bean sprouts, etc. Experts believe that the reason why mulberry leaves have a good therapeutic effect on brown spots may be related to their improvement of the body's endocrine function. Pharmacological studies have shown that the various nutrients contained in mulberry leaves have a positive effect on improving and regulating the metabolism of skin tissue and inhibiting the occurrence and development of pigmentation.

Mulberry leaves for curing diseases

Mulberry leaves are mostly used to treat fever, headache, cough and other symptoms caused by exogenous wind-heat or febrile disease, as well as red and painful eyes, excessive tears and so on caused by liver fire or wind-heat. Modern pharmacological research shows that the chemical components of mulberry leaves include isoquercetin, organic acids, choline, carotene, vitamin B1, etc., which have a significant inhibitory effect on typhoid Salmonella and can inhibit the growth of Staphylococcus aureus. Based on this, the following new uses of mulberry leaves have been discovered.

Treat eye diseases

Wash 15 to 20 grams of frosted mulberry leaves, boil them in water to remove the residue, let them cool, and then use a dry towel to soak the medicine to apply to the affected eyes. It is ideal for treating wind-heat eye swelling and pain, dry and red eyes, photophobia and tearing, and dry and dull eyes. You can apply it several times a day, and it will be effective in 2 to 3 days.

For the elderly who suffer from eye tearing, dry eyes and blurred vision caused by liver and kidney deficiency, washing eyes with mulberry leaf decoction while it is warm every day has the good effect of improving eyesight and reducing tears. Generally, one course of treatment is half a month, and it can be used for 2 to 3 courses in a row. After one course of treatment, stop taking the medicine for 3 to 5 days and then continue the next course.

Treatment of suppurative otitis media

Take a few fresh mulberry leaves, wash them, mash them to extract the juice, and drop 1 to 2 drops of the juice into the ear, 3 times a day. It will usually heal in 2 to 3 days.

Moisturizing and removing dryness

Traditional Chinese medicine has the saying that "the lungs govern the skin and hair", and mulberry leaves belong to the lung and liver meridians, and have the functions of dispelling wind and heat, cooling blood and improving eyesight, so they can be used. Therefore, bathing with decoction of mulberry leaves is an economical and effective method.

Treats dry hands and feet

If you have dry and cracked hands and feet, you can soak your hands and feet in mulberry leaf soup once in the morning and once in the evening for about half an hour each time. One course of treatment is 10 days. For those with dry face, insist on washing your face with mulberry leaf water. After a few days, you can see that your complexion is moisturized, and you don’t even need to wash your face to achieve the desired effect.

In addition, take 15 grams of mulberry leaves every day, soak them in boiling water and drink them as tea. It is effective in treating chloasma on women's face. Generally, the spots can be seen to become lighter after taking it for 15 days to 1 month.

Mulberry leaves: sweet, bitter, cold in nature. It enters the lung and liver meridians.

Efficacy: Dispel wind-heat, clear the lungs and moisten dryness, calm liver yang, clear the liver and improve eyesight, cool blood and stop bleeding.

Dosage and administration: decoction of 5-9g; or made into pills or powder. Use the decoction externally to wash eyes. This product made with honey can enhance the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving cough, so mulberry leaves made with honey are often used to treat dry lung cough.

application:

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 with almonds, adenophora, Fritillaria, etc., such as Sangxing Decoction; in severe cases, it can be used with gypsum, Ophiopogon japonicus, donkey-hide gelatin, etc.

4. Numbness in hands and feet. No accumulation of pain or itch. Wash frequently with decoction of mulberry leaves after the frost falls.

5. Red and painful eyes. Grind mulberry leaves into powder, roll them in paper and burn them to smoke your nose. It is effective.

6. Eyes with wind cause more tears. Take mulberry leaves that do not fall in winter, boil them in water and use them for washing with warm water every day. Or you can add saltpeter.

7. The hair is not long. Use mulberry leaves and hemp leaves to boil rice washing water to wash your hair. After seven times, the hair will grow rapidly.

8. Vomiting blood continuously. Roast and dry the late mulberry leaves, grind them into powder, and take three grams of them with herbal tea. After the bleeding stops, it is advisable to take medicine to nourish the liver and lungs.

9. Lung poison and wind sores. Wash the mulberry leaves well. Steam overnight, dry in the sun, grind into powder, and take 2 qian of it with water.

10. The carbuncle does not heal. Use frosted yellow mulberry leaves, grind them into powder and apply it on the skin.

11. Regular consumption of health care products can prevent longevity. Same as ginseng.

12. Mulberry leaves and herba schizonepetae are good for treating diabetes. Put some of each in water and drink it.