Which season is good for eating mulberry leaves? What's the difference between mulberry leaves in different seasons?

Medicinal mulberry leaves are generally harvested after frosting in late autumn, which is called frosted mulberry leaves. The medicinal ingredients at this time are the best, and all the medicinal mulberry leaves on the market are frosted mulberry leaves.

Frosted mulberry leaves, also known as winter frost leaves, were collected and processed after first frost in winter. After the first frost, when the mulberry leaves are old, hard and yellow-green, they can be picked. The collected mulberry leaves were washed with water and dried on a drying table; Then take clean frosted mulberry leaves and crush them, sift out coarse veins and petioles, and add 0? 2 kg of high-quality honey, add appropriate amount of boiling water and mix well. Stir-fry in a pot with slow fire until it doesn't stick to your hands. Take it out and cool it.

Generally, you should buy it in a Chinese medicine shop.

Mulberry leaves have a special effect that people may not be familiar with, that is, antiperspirant. Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica says: Mulberry leaves "taste bitter and sweet, have little toxicity, and can cure cold, heat and sweating". "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Frosted mulberry leaves should be taken at the end, except those with cold and heat and night sweats." Deserved Materia Medica: Mulberry leaves are sweet and cold. Starting from Yangming meridian. Clean up the dryness in the west and purify the reality in the east. Eliminating wind and heat, benefiting joints, soothing the liver and stopping sweating. "It can be seen that grinding mulberry leaves alone can treat sweating." Compendium of Materia Medica has not only similar records, but also vivid medical records: mulberry leaves "stop night sweats, and there are monks in Yanzhou." Every time I lie on the pillow, I sweat all over, and my clothes and quilts are soaked, which can't be cured for 20 years. Jane teaches picking mulberry leaves with dew, baking them into powder, drinking two yuan of hollow rice, and recovering in a few days. "

Physicians of past dynasties also have a lot of experience. Zhu Danxi, one of the four famous doctors in Jin and Yuan Dynasties, often used mulberry leaves to treat night sweats. He recorded in the book "Danxi Heart Method": "Frosted mulberry leaves are ground into powder, and rice is taken to stop night sweats." Fu Qingzhu, a famous doctor in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, was very good at using mulberry leaves to stop sweating, and also created many prescriptions with mulberry leaves as the main medicine, such as antiperspirant pills, antiperspirant pills and antiperspirant pills. "the famous

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In the treatment of night sweats and spontaneous sweating, Mulberry leaves are often used alone, decocted for 9 ~ 15g or ground for 6 ~ 9g. Mr Qin Bowei also likes to use mulberry leaves to treat sweating on the head and face. It can be seen that mulberry leaves have a history of antiperspirant.

Mulberry leaves are also good health products. Modern pharmacological research shows that mulberry leaves contain flavonoids, polysaccharides, alkaloids, phytosterols, volatile oils, amino acids, vitamins and trace elements, and have many pharmacological activities such as lowering blood sugar, lowering blood pressure, resisting bacteria and viruses, and resisting aging. They are widely used in prevention and health care, and sometimes they are effective when used alone. It's really simple, convenient, effective and cheap.