Mulberry leaves are the leaves of the mulberry tree, which are commonly used traditional Chinese medicine and have many health benefits for humans, such as anticoagulant effects. In addition, mulberry leaves can effectively lower blood pressure, reduce heart rate, and improve blood flow to the brain, etc. It is worth mentioning that mulberry leaves can also resist tumors, indicating that their functions are very powerful.

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

1. Disperse wind-heat

Used for wind-heat type common cold and red and swollen eyes, often combined with chrysanthemum.

2, Clearing the liver and improving eyesight

Used for wind-heat eye diseases (such as acute conjunctivitis). Combined with black sesame, it is named Sang Ma Wan, used for dizziness and blurred vision caused by liver yin deficiency and liver yang hyperactivity.

3, Clearing lung and moisturizing dryness: used for lung heat dry cough

This product is bitter and cold, clearing heat and detoxifying the lungs, sweet and cold, nourishing yin, cooling and moistening the lungs, so it can be used for dry heat injury to the lungs, dry cough with little phlegm. The mild case can be used with herbs such as apricot kernel, Schisandra chinensis, and fritillaria, such as Sang Xing decoction; the severe case can be used with herbs such as shenggao, maimendong, and ejiao.

1, Mulberry leaves are good at dispersing wind-heat and releasing lung heat. For external wind-heat, headache, cough, and other symptoms, it is often combined with chrysanthemum, lonicera, mint, chuanxiong, Platycodon grandiflorus, and other herbs. Mulberry leaves can not only be used for eye redness and photophobia caused by wind-heat, but also clear liver fire, for eye redness and swelling and pain caused by liver fire flaring up, it can be combined with chrysanthemum, hawthorn seed, cheqianzi, and other herbs. As for liver yin deficiency, blurred vision, mulberry leaves can also be used with herbs such as Ligustrum lucidum, Lycium barbarum, and black sesame to nourish the liver and kidneys.

2, Mulberry leaves are light and dispersing, can disperse wind-heat, but the effect is weak. Clinically, it is mainly used for clearing heat and detoxifying the lungs and liver, such as wind-heat attacking the lungs, cough with much phlegm, or dry heat injuring the lungs, dry cough without phlegm; as well as wind-heat attacking the head or liver fire flaring up, eye redness and swelling and pain, etc., it is a commonly used medicine. When combined with oxypeuce and chuanxiong, it can disperse wind and clear the lungs; when combined with gypsum and maimendong, it can clear dryness and moisten the lungs; when combined with chrysanthemum and hawthorn seed, it can clear the liver and improve eyesight.

3, Mulberry leaves have an antispasmodic effect.

4, Mulberry leaves have the effect of anti-pathogenic microorganisms. The mulberry leaf decoction has a certain inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus hemolyticus type B, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Escherichia coli, and other pathogens in vitro. In addition, it can also kill Leptospira.

5, Mulberry leaves have an anti-inflammatory effect.

6, Mulberry leaves have the effect of lowering blood sugar. The蜕皮甾酮 contained in them has a hypoglycemic effect on various methods of induced hyperglycemia, can promote the conversion of glucose to glycogen, but does not change the blood sugar of normal animals.

7, Mulberry leaves have the effect of lowering blood pressure. After injecting mulberry leaf extract into the femoral vein of an anesthetized dog, a temporary decrease in blood pressure occurs, but it does not affect respiration.

8, Mulberry leaves have an effect on smooth muscle, and they have an excitatory effect on the estrous uterus of animals, and an inhibitory effect on the intestinal muscle of mice.

9, Mulberry leaves have the effects of lowering blood lipids and diuresis.

Take 5-9g for decoction; or take it in pills or powders. Use the decoction to wash the eyes externally. The honey-processed product can enhance the effect of nourishing the lungs and relieving cough, so honey-processed mulberry leaves are often used for dry cough due to lung dryness.

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