Mulberry leaf tea is made from mulberry leaves. It's best to choose mulberry leaves harvested in late autumn, and the brewing temperature should be carefully considered. Mulberry leaf tea is known for its benefits, including improving eyesight, promoting urination, and lightening age spots. Below, we'll introduce how to brew mulberry leaf tea and its effects.
How to brew mulberry leaf tea
When choosing mulberry leaves for tea, it's best to select leaves harvested in late autumn. These are leaves from the upper and middle parts of the mulberry tree, free from pollution and pests. The water temperature for brewing the tea should not be boiling; 70-80 degrees Celsius is ideal. This will preserve some of the nutrients in the mulberry leaves and maintain their efficacy and medicinal value.
The benefits of mulberry leaf tea
1. Treatment of wind-heat cold: Mulberry leaves enter the lung and liver meridians and have the effect of dispersing wind-heat, making them useful for treating exogenous wind-heat. Drinking mulberry leaf tea can effectively relieve symptoms such as fever, headache, and sore throat.
2. Clearing lung heat: If you have symptoms of lung heat or dryness damaging the lungs, such as cough with little phlegm, dry nose and throat, drinking mulberry leaf tea can effectively clear lung heat.
3. Treatment of dizziness: Mulberry leaf tea can relieve symptoms of dizziness and blurred vision caused by liver yang rising. Mulberry leaf tea can calm liver yang, clear the liver and improve eyesight, and can treat headaches caused by liver yang rising. It can be brewed together with heat-clearing Chinese herbs such as chrysanthemum.
4. Diuretic and Athlete's Foot Relief: Soaking feet in mulberry leaf tea can effectively remove athlete's foot. Mulberry leaf tea's diuretic and swelling-reducing properties stem from the fact that mulberry leaves have a diuretic effect, helping to flush out excess water from the body's cells.
5. Removing freckles: Mulberry leaf tea can also be used to remove freckles. Women with freckles on their face can wash their face with mulberry leaf tea three times a day to lighten the melanin in the spots, which has a certain effect on removing freckles.
6. Lowering the three highs: Mulberry leaves contain a variety of alkaloids, amino acids, polysaccharides and other components, which have significant effects on lowering blood sugar, blood pressure and blood lipids. They are very suitable for people with the "three highs" and have good health benefits.
7. Acne and Blemish Removal: Studies have shown that mulberry leaves have excellent skin-beautifying effects, especially effective for facial acne and brown spots. Mulberry leaf tea is rich in flavonoids, phenols, amino acids, organic acids, carotene, vitamins, and various essential trace elements. These play a positive role in improving and regulating skin tissue metabolism, particularly in inhibiting the occurrence and development of pigmentation. Furthermore, regular consumption can reduce the accumulation of lipofuscin in the skin and internal organs.
8. Weight Loss and Fat Reduction: Mulberry leaf tea can aid in weight loss due to its "swelling-reducing" and "blood-purifying" properties. Mulberry leaf tea reduces swelling because it has a diuretic effect. This diuretic effect differs from regular urination; it not only promotes urination but also helps eliminate excess water accumulated in cells. Therefore, mulberry leaf tea can improve edema. Blood purification involves removing excess triglycerides and cholesterol from the blood. Excessive triglycerides or cholesterol in the blood constitutes hyperlipidemia. Therefore, many obese people suffer from hyperlipidemia. Mulberry leaf tea can help improve this condition.
Introduction to Mulberry Leaf Tea
Mulberry leaves contain an alkaloid called 1-deoxynojirimycin, an alkaloid found only in mulberry leaves at a concentration of approximately 100 mg/100g. This alkaloid is an inhibitor of α-glucosidase. In addition to DNJ, mulberry leaves are also rich in γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and phytosterols, with levels 3-4 times higher than in green tea. They are believed to have slimming, beautifying, and blood sugar-lowering effects.
