Can mulberry leaves lower blood sugar?

Mulberry leaf is a relatively common plant in traditional Chinese medicine. It can be used to treat diabetes, so it has a certain effect of lowering blood sugar. There are many ways to eat mulberry leaves, such as making mulberry leaves into tea, boiling mulberry leaves in water, cooking mulberry leaves into porridge, etc. These are all relatively simple ways, and patients with high blood sugar can also eat them in this way.

Mulberry leaves lower blood sugar:

Since ancient times, Chinese medicine has used mulberry leaves as a traditional Chinese medicine to treat diabetes mellitus (diabetes in modern medicine) in clinical practice. The ancient Japanese book "Tea Drinking and Health Preservation Record" also records that mulberry leaves have the effect of improving "drinking water disease" (diabetes in modern medicine). Domestic and foreign research data confirm that biotin and polysaccharides are the main blood sugar-lowering components in mulberry leaves.

The hypoglycemic effect of mulberry leaves is achieved through two pathways: first, the bioalkali DNJ (1-deoxynojirimycin) inhibits the activity of disaccharide degrading enzymes, thereby inhibiting the absorption of disaccharides by the small intestine and reducing the peak blood sugar level after a meal (Kimura, 1995); second, the bioalkali fagomine and mulberry leaf polysaccharides promote the secretion of insulin by β cells, and insulin can promote the cell's utilization of sugar, liver glycogen synthesis and improve sugar metabolism, ultimately achieving the effect of lowering blood sugar.

Mulberry leaves lower blood sugar method:

1. Mulberry leaf tea

Mulberry leaves can be brewed directly with water and drunk, or mixed with other beverages.

2. Boil mulberry leaves in water

Dried mulberry leaves can be brewed with boiling water or boiled in a casserole and consumed for a long time. Dried mulberry leaves are a traditional Chinese medicine that can be used as both medicine and food. Just dry the freshly harvested mulberry leaves.

3. Cook porridge with mulberry leaves

Mix fresh mulberry leaves with glutinous rice and make porridge. Long-term consumption also has a certain effect on regulating blood sugar. This is more suitable and easier to achieve in mulberry leaf producing areas. The selected mulberry leaves must be washed clean and the pesticide residues removed before cooking the porridge directly.

4. Take mulberry leaf powder directly

Grind the dried mulberry leaves, take 5 grams each time, and drink it with water three times a day. It also has a good blood sugar lowering effect and can be taken for a long time.