There is a saying: "blood turbidity causes all kinds of diseases, blood purification disease self-elimination", it can be seen that the cleanliness of blood and our health is inextricably linked, experts will blood viscosity is known as a time bomb that causes disease, blood is too viscous, blood flow will inevitably slow down, serious can affect the blood supply of important organs of the human body, cause heart disease and stroke, and even threaten life. People with viscous blood should pay attention to a light diet and eat more foods that pass blood vessels.
Here is a suggestion: When people reach middle age, their blood is getting thicker and thicker, and it is common to drink "leaves" in a blind way, and blood clots and high blood pressure take a detour~
Mulberry leaves [alias] iron fan, home mulberry leaves, dry mulberry leaves, thorn mulberry leaves, mulberry leaves, mulberry leaves, yellow mulberry leaves, frost mulberry leaves, winter mulberry leaves, white mulberry leaves, chicken mulberry leaves, sub mulberry leaves, mountain mulberry leaves, golden mulberry leaves, late mulberry leaves, old mulberry leaves, double leaves, double mulberry leaves, child mulberry leaves, fairy leaves.
Chinese fairy grass, Japanese longevity tea
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mulberry leaves are sweet, bitter and cold. It has the effect of evacuating wind and heat, clearing the lungs and moistening dryness, calming the liver yang, clearing the liver and brightening the eyes, cooling the blood and stopping bleeding.
In Japan and the villages of Changshou on the outskirts of Moscow, people often eat mulberries, sweets with mulberry leaves, and drink mulberry leaf tea.
In order to find out how amazing the mulberry leaf is, experts from China, Japan and South Korea have conducted in-depth research on the chemical composition and pharmacological effects of mulberry leaves, and have come to surprising conclusions:
01 Blood pressure stabilizer
Rutonin, quercetin, and quercetin in mulberry leaves can increase the contractility and output of isolated and in-situ frog hearts, and reduce heart rate. Rutonin can constrict the blood vessels of the toad's lower limbs and rabbit ears, and quercetin can dilate the coronary blood vessels and improve myocardial circulation.
02 Assist in lowering blood lipids, cholesterol, anti-thrombosis and anti-atherosclerosis
Mulberry leaves have the effect of inhibiting the formation of fatty liver, reducing serum fat and inhibiting the formation of atherosclerosis. Active ingredients include DNJ, phytosterols, flavonoids and others.
Kayo Doi confirmed that mulberry leaf extract has an inhibitory effect on elevated serum lipids and atherosclerosis in hyperlipidemia.
In addition, mulberry leaf tea contains LDL-lipoprotein oxidation components in antibodies, so mulberry leaves can prevent myocardial infarction and cerebral hemorrhage while losing weight and improving hyperlipidemia.
03 has a certain anticoagulant effect
Mulberry leaf extract can significantly prolong the coagulation time of whole blood in mice and significantly prolong the activated partial thromboplastin (APTI) time in rabbit plasma, indicating that mulberry leaf has a direct inhibitory effect on thrombin-fibrinogen reaction.
04Anti-aging, anti-fatigue effect
Through four years of experiments, the Institute of Clinical Pharmacology of Zhejiang University confirmed that mulberry leaves have tonic and anti-aging effects similar to ginseng. Ginseng is a hot tonic, while mulberry leaves are a clear tonic, there is no taboo, both young and old can be used, and it is suitable for all seasons.
Quercetin, phenolic compounds, vitamin C and other components contained in mulberry leaves can prevent oxidative damage by inhibiting or scavenging free radicals.
Mulberry leaves have the effects of ginseng-like tonic and anti-aging, stabilizing nervous system function, relieving emotional agitation caused by physiological changes, improving the activity of superoxide dismutase in the body, preventing the production of harmful substances in the body, and reducing or eliminating lipofuscin that has been produced and accumulated in the body.
05 Stabilizing blood sugar
Since ancient times, Chinese medicine has used mulberry leaves as a traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of thirst-quenching disease (i.e., diabetes in modern medicine), and the hypoglycemic effect of mulberry leaves is achieved through two ways:
First, the alkaloid DNJ (1-deoxynojirimycin) inhibits the activity of disaccharide-decomposing enzymes, thereby inhibiting the absorption of disaccharides in the small intestine and reducing the peak of post-food blood glucose (Kimura, 1995).
The second is to promote the secretion of insulin by β cells through mulberry leaf alkaloids fagomine and mulberry leaf polysaccharides, and insulin can promote the utilization of sugar by cells, liver glycogen synthesis and improve glucose metabolism, and finally achieve the effect of lowering blood sugar.
Applicable situations: three highs, blood vessels, obesity, skin, fire...
It is not difficult to see from the above introduction of efficacy that mulberry leaves can be used in the three highs, blood vessels, obesity, skin, fire and other problems. Moreover, if there is no abnormality in the body, it can also be used for health care and disease prevention.
Since mulberry leaves are "medicine and food homology", it means that they can be eaten as vegetables and used for medicinal purposes. And the two are also different in terms of the time of harvest:
Medicinal mulberry leaves are generally collected after frost in late autumn, called frost mulberry leaves, and the medicinal ingredients at this time are the best;
When cooking and eating, spring mulberry leaves are used, which are more tender and fresh.
Mulberry leaf tea
Mulberry leaf tea is the easiest way to take mulberry leaves, whether it is frost mulberry leaves or spring mulberry leaves, it can be used to make tea.
[Dose]
Generally, 5 grams of dried mulberry leaves, double the fresh product, that is, 10 grams.
【Usage】
Tear the mulberry leaves into pieces and put them in a tea bag. Brew with hot water and drink. Generally, frost mulberry leaf tea is brewed with 100 degrees of boiling water, and spring mulberry leaf tea can be brewed with 90 degrees of boiling water for 15 minutes.
There are also a few points to pay attention to when soaking mulberry leaves:
1. People with spleen and stomach deficiency should not use a large amount for a long time.
2. Women can not drink mulberry leaves soaked in water during menstruation, pregnancy and lactation, because mulberry leaves are cold, and there may be poor menstruation, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, and irritation of the gastrointestinal tract.
3. People who are allergic to mulberry leaves should not use it
In addition to this qi, other uses of mulberry leaves for diseases are as follows:
【Longevity Fairy Tea】
Although the famous Qing Dynasty writer Pu Songling was depressed, he rarely fell ill, and finally lived to be 76 years old, which was already a very long life at that time, which was closely related to his health secret - "candied chrysanthemum mulberry tea".
"Candied chrysanthemum mulberry tea" is mainly composed of honey, chrysanthemums, and mulberry leaves.
【Lowering Sugar, Fat Clearing and Weight Loss】
5 grams of mulberry leaves, 3 grams of honeysuckle, 3 grams of tangerine peel, 1 gram of stevia leaves.
Brew 200ml of boiling water, simmer for 20 minutes, and take it for 3~6 months.
【Heat clearing and diuretic】
30 grams of fresh wolfberry seedlings, 30 grams of fresh plantain, 60 grams of fresh mulberry leaves, add an appropriate amount of water to decoction.
Diuretic, heat-clearing effect.
【Clear the liver and eyes, prevent presbyopia】
Take 10 grams of mulberry leaves and 2 eggs, put them in a pot together, add water and cook until the eggs are cooked.
One in the morning and one in the evening, especially suitable for elderly people with dazzle, or to prevent presbyopia.
【Emollient, acne-free】
From the Qing Dynasty Guangxu period of the "Surgical Shou Shi Fang" of the face wash glorious prescription
Take 30~50 grams of mulberry leaves, add water more than 5 cm of the medicinal surface, bring to a boil over high heat, turn to a simmer and cook for about 15 minutes.
To use, wash your face with a scoop of a clean teaspoon in the morning and cleanser in the evening. After washing, the skin is not easy to tighten, and after a week, the skin becomes smoother, less oily, and the phenomenon of dry cracking and peeling is improved.
【Pediatric rubella】
Han Ping, vice chairman of the Science Popularization Professional Committee of the China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, introduced: Mulberry leaves can clear heat and detoxify, dispel wind and relieve the surface, and the advantage of using mulberry leaves is that it will not harm the delicate organs of young children.
Mulberry leaf porridge: take 10 grams of winter mulberry leaves and 50 grams of japonica rice, first add water to decoction to remove the slag and take the medicinal liquid, then boil the japonica rice into porridge and add the medicinal juice, mix and boil. Eat 2~3 times a day while warm.
Mulberry water bath: You can also take 50 grams of ground skin and silkworm sand, add water to decoction of the two medicines, remove the slag and take the medicinal solution, and use a towel dipped in the liquid to scrub the affected area, once in the morning and once in the evening, 20~30 minutes each time, for 1 month.
[Dizziness caused by high blood pressure]
Use 10 grams of mulberry leaves, 10 grams of chrysanthemums, 10 grams of wolfberries, and 6 grams of cassia seeds, decoction in water instead of tea.
Chilled mulberry leaves
Mulberry leaves are both medicinal and edible, in addition to the medicinal value introduced above, cold mulberry leaves are also very delicious~
【Mulberry leaves】
Pick fresh and tender mulberry leaves, blanch them in boiling water, and then pass them in cold water, add some salt, garlic paste, and sesame oil after shredding, and a plate of delicious cold mulberry leaves can be eaten.
In addition, mulberry leaves can be wrapped in batter and fried to eat, made into filling, mixed with minced meat or diced meat, used to make dumplings, wontons, buns, etc.; Or use it to make mulberry leaf noodles, mulberry leaf cakes, mulberry leaf pork bone soup, mulberry leaf pork liver soup, mulberry leaf crucian carp soup, etc.