June 11, 2016

The health benefits of mulberry

Mulberry fruit has many health benefits. The primary medicinal function of mulberry is its ability to release heat from the body.  Mulberry has traditionally been used to release heat and toxins from the skin and lymphatic system.

Specific ways that mulberry is used to release heat include clearing heat from lungs and clearing the liver for the sake of relieving sore red eyes, bleeding and the vomiting of blood.

The fruit is good for digestive tract illness. It can stimulate digestion and assimilation of nutrients in the small intestine.

Mulberry fruit has the function of nourishing blood. If the person who has anemia, pallor, dizziness, insomnia, and heart-palpitations regularly takes mulberry juice, they will experience good effects.

Compounding with other herbs can nourish blood, blacken hair, and help grow hair. Those experience premature aging, such as graying hair and impotence, can take mulberry often.

Mulberry is full of vitamin A and B family and is effective in regulating fat, while boosting metabolism, which is perfect for weight control.

Scientists have pinpointed a number of biologically active compounds in the extract of mulberry leaves, that is effective in suppressing the progression of atherosclerosis, the built up of cholesterol-rich plaque in the arteries.

The fruits are rich in anthocyanins and hence hold great potential for using for health benefits and as natural food colorants.  One once of ripe mulberry fruit contains nearly 60 mg of anthocyanins.

This plant pigment is noted for its powerful antioxidant property and are being investigated for anti-neopastic, radiation-protective, vasotonic, vaso- protective, anti-inflammatory, chemopreventive and hepatoprotective properties.
The health benefits of mulberry

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