Mulberry
Mulberry (she is a mulberry tree, or mulberry) is a tall, up to 20 meters tree with white, red or dark purple, almost black drupe fruits. The tree is light and thermophilic, the berries ripen, depending on the area of growth, in June-August. The homeland of the mulberry tree is considered to be the countries of southwestern and eastern Asia. Another medieval Persian scientist, physician and philosopher Abu Ali ibn Sina (Avicenna) devoted a whole chapter to the benefits of mulberry in the "Canon of Medicine" - a work on which traditional healers still rely in their practice. In ancient China, silkworms were grown on the leaves and young shoots of mulberry trees.
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Today mulberry trees are cultivated as fruit trees and as a raw material for the cultivation of silkworm caterpillars. Also, the leaves of the trees go to livestock feed, wood is used in the woodworking industry for the production of musical instruments and souvenirs.
Food coloring is obtained from black mulberry berries. It is clear that stains from them are very difficult to remove.
Due to the resistance of mulberry trees to atmospheric pollution with gases, smoke and dust, they are often used for landscaping large settlements.
Useful properties of mulberry
Traditional medicine uses mulberries as raw materials, which is called “from head to toe” - from roots to buds and fruits, both fresh and harvested (dried).
But of particular interest, both from a medicinal and from a gastronomic point of view, are mulberry fruits. They are rich in sugars (glucose, fructose), B vitamins (including B3, or PP), ascorbic acid, vitamin K. Essential oils, pectin and tannins are also found in them in a fairly large amount.
Mulberry, in comparison with other berries, contains a lot of potassium, calcium, phosphorus, therefore, there is no doubt about the benefits of mulberries on the menu during periods of intense mental stress.
The average calorie content of one hundred grams of mulberry is 43 kcal.
Application of the roots, leaves and fruits of mulberry
The juice of the roots is an antihelminthic agent, and their decoction helps with bronchial asthma, colds, coughs, heart disease, hypertension. For kidney diseases, the bark of small and medium branches is used. Outwardly, powder from the bark is used for wounds and burns.
Juice from fresh mulberry leaves soothes a toothache, decoctions have antipyretic and analgesic effects for colds. In official medicine, the leaves are used as an adjuvant in the treatment of early forms of diabetes.
A decoction of the leaves can be used to rinse hair to make it silky.
Depending on the species (white, red or black) and the degree of maturity, the properties of mulberry and its effect on the body can be different, up to the opposite. So, the use of green (unripe) berries, which have astringent properties, helps to stop diarrhea, and ripe and overripe fruits, on the contrary, weaken and therefore are useful for constipation. Also, ripe fruits are an excellent diuretic, recommended for edema of renal and cardiovascular origin. Red mulberry has a positive effect on blood, white mulberry - on the nervous system.
The beneficial properties of mulberry make it possible to recommend fresh berries to people suffering from anemia, gastrointestinal diseases (including stomach and duodenal ulcers), kidney and liver diseases, hypertension and gout. Juice and decoction of the fruit can be used to gargle with colds and various inflammatory diseases (before, mulberry was used even in the treatment of scarlet fever). Also, according to reviews about mulberry, the use of its freshly squeezed juice protects against stomatitis and periodontal disease.
White mulberry juice is a good way to prevent childhood rickets. For the same purposes, you can use dried berries or bekmes - a specially condensed juice, also called "fruit honey". Both in bekmes and in dried berries, all the healing properties of fresh fruits are preserved practically without loss.
Berries are very useful for people suffering from heart disease and myocardial dystrophy. Reviews of mulberry from patients with such diseases indicate that regular consumption of large quantities of fresh fruits reduces their heart pain and shortness of breath.
The infusion of ripe fruits is used for biliary dyskinesia, and the syrup from them is a good diaphoretic.
The use of mulberry helps to solve both purely male problems (the fruits of the white mulberry help with prostatitis and impotence) and exclusively female (berries are used for uterine bleeding and to alleviate menopause). A man who has suffered a "mumps" in childhood is likely to develop infertility. To prevent such a misfortune from happening, it is recommended to feed the boys with ripe mulberries daily during the recovery period.
Both white and red, and especially black mulberries are a delicious berry that can be enjoyed fresh, used as a filling for baked goods and dumplings, made juice, cook jelly and compotes. Mulberry is canned, made from berries, preserves and jams, syrup, marshmallow and sorbet. Dried berries are ground into powder, which is then added to baked goods. According to experts, from the mulberry fruit, very good wine and moonshine are obtained.
Fresh berries can be stored in the refrigerator for up to three days. Therefore, mulberries are unsuitable for transportation. However, the benefits of mulberries after drying and freezing remain practically unchanged, the fruits retain a sufficient amount of vitamins and microelements in order to fully use the harvested berries far from the growing areas, as well as for the prevention and treatment of vitamin deficiency in the spring and winter period.
Contraindications
The main contraindication to the use of mulberry fruits is individual intolerance. Due to the high sugar content in black berries (about 11%), people with diabetes and obesity should not abuse them.
Mulberries from trees along busy highways should not be eaten.
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