Introduction: Mulberries are in season now, and their fresh, crisp, sweet and sour taste is loved by many. In fact, mulberries are also a great nourishing medicine, and those with yin deficiency might as well enjoy them to their heart's content.
"Women, middle-aged and elderly people, and those who overuse their eyes can eat more mulberries," said Li Xian, Chief Physician of the Hepatobiliary and Spleen and Stomach Disease Department of Henan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Mulberries are sweet and sour in taste, cold in nature, and belong to the liver and kidney meridians. They have the effects of nourishing blood and yin, promoting the production of body fluids to quench thirst, and moistening dryness in the intestines. They help to improve symptoms such as dizziness, blurred vision, tinnitus, palpitations, irritability, and insomnia caused by deficiency of yin and blood. Patients with symptoms of yin and blood deficiency can often eat them to nourish yin, enrich blood, and promote fluid production. Modern research has found that it is rich in active proteins, vitamins, minerals, etc., which helps to improve human immunity.
If eating fresh mulberries, choose purple-black and fully ripe ones, 20-30 at a time. Li Xian said that mulberries can also be sun-dried or slightly steamed and then sun-dried, and then made into mulberry rock sugar drinks, mulberry honey paste, etc., which not only increases the taste but also extends the shelf life.
Mulberry Rock Sugar Drink. 40 grams of mulberries, 20 grams of rock sugar, drink as a tea substitute. Mulberry is cold and nourishes yin, rock sugar is neutral and nourishes yin and promotes fluid production, suitable for people with rough skin and dull complexion; it can also be taken by those with dry stools caused by insufficient intestinal fluids.
Mulberry Honey Paste. An appropriate amount of mulberries and honey. Decoct the mulberries to extract the juice, simmer the juice over low heat to make a paste, add honey and mix well. Take 10-15 grams each time, two to three times a day. Mulberry honey paste can nourish yin and blood, and is suitable for premature graying of hair, irregular menstruation in women, etc., caused by deficiency of yin and blood.
It should be noted that mulberries are偏寒 (偏寒: on the cold side), so they are contraindicated for diabetic patients and those with normally loose stools or diarrhea due to spleen deficiency. Children should not eat too much.