A Case Study from "Fairy Leaves" to "Longevity Tea"

? 1. Why is mulberry leaf called "immortal leaf"?

? In China, mulberry planting and sericulture have a history of more than 5,000 years. Mulberry branches are picked in spring, mulberry leaves are picked in summer, mulberry leaves are frosted in autumn, and mulberry skins are shaved in winter, which shows that mulberry trees are all treasures. Mulberry leaf is mulberry leaf, which is not only the food of silkworm babies, but also a Chinese herbal medicine with medicinal value, and can also be used as a health food suitable for all ages.

? Chinese medicine believes that mulberry leaves are cold, sweet and bitter, and belong to lung and liver meridians. Because it looks like a fan, it is called an "iron fan". The leaves are complete, large and thick, yellow-green, crisp and free of impurities. Mulberry leaves should be tender for feeding silkworms and old for medicine. Zhang Shouyi, a famous doctor in the Republic of China, pointed out: "Mulberry leaves are better with old cream, and they want to benefit qi and strengthen the body." Therefore, most medicinal mulberry leaves are harvested after frost, which is called "frosted mulberry leaves" or "winter mulberry leaves". Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica lists it as a Chinese medicine (a kind of drug classification), and thinks that it has the effect of dispelling cold and heat and sweating, and can be used to dispel wind and heat, clear lung and moisten dryness, clear liver and improve eyesight. It is often used with chrysanthemum to treat colds, coughs and eye diseases caused by exogenous wind and heat. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Decocting tea with juice can quench thirst, relieve fatigue and cough, improve eyesight and grow hair." The ancients called it "immortal leaf", especially good at clearing lung heat and moistening lung dryness, and treating fever, cough and yellow phlegm caused by wind heat, or dry cough, scanty phlegm and itchy throat caused by dry heat. The lung moistening effect is better after intensive baking.

Modern research results show that mulberry leaves have the functions of lowering blood sugar, blood lipid and blood pressure, and can improve liver function and delay aging. You can make tea or porridge with boiling water every day, and you can also wash your face with boiling water to treat facial acne and brown spots and relieve the feeling of dry skin in autumn and winter or the elderly.

? Modern research shows that mulberry leaves have nourishing and anti-aging effects similar to those of ginseng, so it has the reputation of "ginseng is hot tonic, mulberry leaves are clear tonic" and has good nutritional, health care and medicinal values.

? Second, people's health cases

? A pot of longevity tea

Drinking for decades.

? Wang Jusheng, former president of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was affectionately called "civilian president" by patients. Her health care method also takes the civilian route and rarely eats precious medicinal materials.

Removing blood stasis and detoxifying, Wang Jusheng loves tea for health and often drinks mulberry tea, giving him the name "longevity tea". She not only drinks it herself every day, but also recommends it to others. This kind of tea has only three herbs-mulberry leaves, silkworm cocoons and chrysanthemums. This tea is very simple to make: take a pinch of dried mulberry leaves, 1~2 cocoons and 3~5 chrysanthemums, and brew with boiling water to make tea. Drinking this kind of tea regularly can clear blood stasis, toxins and calories in the body, resist fatigue, and is suitable for patients with chronic diseases and middle-aged and elderly people. Lycium barbarum can be added to silkworm tea in winter.

As long as he is idle, Wang Jusheng's hand will do some little tricks. Wang Jusheng said that only when her blood is full and her fingers are flexible and sensitive can she feel the subtle pulse, so she pays great attention to hand care. She suggested doing ten fingers exercises while watching TV, and insisting on doing it can improve symptoms such as bad joints, uneven viscera, rough skin and tepid limbs.

Rub your hands: rub your hands and rub them back after your palms get hot; Then pat the palm and the back of your hand until it is red and hot. It can often delay the growth of senile plaques on the back of the hand.

Finger insertion: the fingers are crossed, and the farther away the hands are, the more they can be aligned, indicating good reaction ability. This action can exercise the brain.

Fingertip tapping: ten fingers tap the desktop, just like playing the piano.

Finger touch: Touch your fingers one by one from your thumb. Touching your fingers often can regulate the five internal organs.

Turn your finger: draw a full stop on your thigh with each finger, and finally draw a circle in the air with your hand.

Iii. The statement from the third edition (Volume 1) of the National Compilation of Chinese Herbal Medicine:

? The chemical constituents include flavonoids and their glycosides: quercetin, isoquercitrin, morin, astragalus flavone, kaempferol -3-0-β-D- glucopyranoside, kaempferol -3-0-(6 '- oxyacetyl) -β-D- glucopyranoside and quercetin -3-. Steroids and triterpenoids: Achyranthes bidentata, hydroxyecdysterone, β-sitosterol, lupeol, rape sterol, stigmasterol, etc. Coumarin and its glycosides: umbelliferone, scopoletin, scopoletin, hydroxycoumarin, etc. Acidic components: isobutyric acid, valeric acid, isovaleric acid, tetracarboxylic acid, guaiacol, chlorogenic acid, fumaric acid, palmitic acid, ethyl palmitate, etc. Alkaloids: fenugreek, 1- deoxynojirimycin (DNJ), N- methyl-1-DNJ, fagopyrine, noranisodamine, etc. Amino acid composition: aspartic acid, γ -aminobutyric acid, glutathione, lysine, proline, phenylalanine, leucine, valine, tyrosine, etc. Volatile components: hexadecenol, trimethylcyclohexenol, heptenol, octadecane, di (2- methyl) propyl phthalate, 3,7, 1 1, 15- tetramethyl -2- hexadecane-1- alcohol, etc. It also contains racemic inositol, vitamins, emodin methyl ether and so on.

Sweet, bitter and cold in nature. Enter lung meridian and liver meridian.

Function is mainly used to disperse wind and heat, clear lung and moisten dryness, clear liver and improve eyesight. Suitable for wind-heat cold, lung-heat dry cough, dizziness and headache, and blurred vision.

Usage and dosage: 5 ~ 10g.

No drug warnings and contraindications have been reported in this regard.

See page 532 of this book for common prescriptions.

?

References:

1, Longevity Health Daily 20 1 611October1Traditional Chinese Medicine Health Edition.

2. Longevity Health News (Longevity Edition) February 8, 2020 (65438)

3. Compilation of Chinese Herbal Medicines (Volume I) (3rd Edition, February 20 14) was printed1time (total1time).

? Bai Jiaxiang of An Tian? 2022. 1. 12.