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White mulberry leaves health benefits
White mulberry leaves
White mulberry leaves
The white mulberry leaves has the Chinese name Sang Ye, it has a refreshing action and clarification of the lung and liver. It is often used to treat symptoms such as headache, fever, cough due to external heat, wind or drought lung, red and swollen eyes.
Chinese name Sang Ye (blood Yè; 桑叶)
Pharmaceutical Name Folium Mori Albae
Botanical name Morus alba L.
Other names Dong Sang Ye (冬 桑叶), Lao Sang Ye (老 桑叶), Sang Ye Xin (新 桑叶)
Plant Part Leaf
Cold Nature
Sweet flavor, bitter
Tropism (in between the meridians:) Lung, liver
brief description Disperse wind-heat, clears the lungs and liver
Indications:
1) Disperse wind and clarifies the heat
In attack the external heat-generating wind fever, headache, sore throat and cough. Advise against the common cold or flu.
2) Quiet liver and clarifies eyes
When troubles affecting the eyes due to excessive heat or wind-heat in the liver, or because of liver Yin empty.
But when dizziness due to a rise of Yang liver, causing symptoms such as red eyes, sore eyes, dry eyes, or black spots before his eyes.
3) Clarify and moistens the lungs drought
When drought lung with cough, dry mouth, or lung heat with thick yellow sputum.
4) Refreshes the blood and stops bleeding
During mild case of vomiting of blood due to heat in the blood.
Contraindication
People often have a cold stomach sensation, poor digestion with loose stools, Sang Ye shall consume with caution.
Pharmacological effects
antibacterial
Anti-inflammatory
Strengthens the immune system
Decrease Diabetes
Dosages
4.5 to 9 g
Combinations:
When coughing, red eyes, swollen and painful, the sheet of white mulberry can be combined with:
Ju Hua – 菊花 (Flos Chrysanthemi Morifolii)
Against an external heat-wind attack:
Ju Hua – 菊花 (Flos Chrysanthemi Morifolii)
Bo He – 薄荷 (Menthae Haplocalycis)
Jing Jie – 荆芥 (Herba seu flos schizonepetae tenuifoliae)
When fever and cough:
Ju Hua – 菊花 (Flos Chrysanthemi Morifolii)
Bo He – 薄荷 (Menthae Haplocalycis)
Lian Qiao – 连翘 (Fructus Forsythiae Suspensae)
Against dizziness, vertigo due to heat empty Yin liver and kidney:
Hei Zhi Ma – 黑 芝麻 (Semen Sesami Indici) -> black sesame
pregnancy:
The leaf of the white mulberry can be consumed during pregnancy.
Notes
– Sang Ye (sheet of white mulberry) can be used externally as eye washing and skin disorders.
– When the leaves are discounted and the juice drunk as tea, they help slow the absorption of monosaccharide in the stomach and lower the level of sugar in the blood after meals.
– Depending on the time of harvesting the effect of mulberry leaf will be more or less pronounced on certain actions. For example, the old leaves picked after the first frost (called: the winter mulberry leaf – 冬 桑叶) are considered more powerful to dispel wind and clear heat.
Although some prefer the tender young leaves of spring because they embody the Qi spring and therefore enters the liver meridian, refreshes it and cleared his eyes, the best time to pick them still remains the period between autumn and winter.
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