White mulberry grows in the central part of our country, in Central Asia, Primorye, the Far East, near the Volga, in the Crimea, Moldova and the Caucasus. Basically it can be found in the coastal forests, in the mountains and along the beams. In the mountains, it "climbs" even to a height of more than a kilometer above sea level. Silkworm is cultivated as a decorative tree and, of course, fruit.
This tree is used to strengthen ravines, to build protective strips and green fences. Its wood is a valuable material in carpentry and construction crafts. It is also suitable for making furniture, paper, and musical instruments from it. The extracts obtained from wood can be used for coloring fabrics in yellow tones. From its bast fibers you can weave ropes and ropes, and young branches can be useful for making baskets. Silky leaves are used to feed silk worms and domestic animals.
The fruits of white mulberry can be consumed both fresh and dried. They make excellent compotes, jellies, pastilles, syrups and jam. The food industry also does not do without the fruit of mulberry. They use them in the production of citric acid, sugar and vinegar. Extracts are added to baking gingerbread and bread. Cake and dried silk fruits are used as a surrogate for coffee. They are fed bees and birds.
Medical properties.
As a medicinal raw material, leaves, fruits, bark, and kidneys of this tree are used. This raw material is harvested from July to August. Fruits can be harvested and for the winter, freezing at a temperature of about minus 20. They can also be dried by using an oven, dryer or even an oven. The drying temperature should not exceed 80 degrees. Fruit should be spread a thin layer and mix regularly.
The leaves are dried in the same way as the fruits. They are collected, mainly in the spring. The bark is harvested at a time when the juice is moving. At this time, the buds swell and begin to bud. All raw materials are exposed to sunlight for a couple of days and then dried in attics or in other well ventilated rooms. Raw materials must be mixed regularly. The bark needs to be stored in bags of cloth, the shelf life is up to 3 years, the leaves with fruits can be stored for up to a couple of years, and the kidneys are stored for a year.
The bark contains flavonoids, and tannins, nitrogen compounds, steroids and triterpenoids.
The leaves are rich in higher fatty acids, flavonoids, tannins, aldehydes, carotene, vitamin C, steroids and their derivatives, organic acids, including amber, lemon, stone, apple, oxalic and others.
In fruits, a lot of organic acids, including apple, amber, lemon. They contain vitamins: PP, C, Br, Bi, as well as carotene, fatty acids and flavonoids.
Juice made from silk fruits has a diaphoretic, diuretic, expectorant properties. It helps to regulate the work of the intestines, the heart, and also the blood vessels. If you use it locally, it will help heal the wounds and have a bactericidal effect. With the help of leaves and kidneys mulberry can regulate the metabolism of carbohydrates and fats. Fruit juice, fruits and tinctures from them are used for diarrhea, chronic bronchitis and exacerbations of it, pneumonia and asthma. Mulberry helps to strengthen liquefaction and separation of phlegm. Positive effects also affect the treatment of obesity, cardiac and vascular dystrophy. Especially they help with heart defects and myocardio-dystrophic lesions.
White mulberry leaves can be brewed as tea. This is an excellent tool for lowering the temperature for colds.
Tincture, made from fresh berries of white mulberries, is useful for urticaria, scarlet fever. With epileptic disruptions, you need to take a tincture of the leaves and bark of this tree.
Dried and ground mulberries can be added to the flour, which goes to making flat cakes.
Traditional healers often use the mulberry tree (bark) as a means that can heal wounds. Add the vegetable oil to the powder of the bark of the mulberry trunks and prepare a liquid ointment. She is greased with wounds, ulcers, scratches and cuts.
Diabetics are advised to use dry mulberry leaves, sprinkling food before eating. There were cases when patients with elevated blood sugar levels after consuming broth of mulberry leaves showed an improvement in their condition. It is suggested that this antidiabetic effect is due to the presence in the tree of vitamins, which contribute to fixation in the tissues of glucose. This is, first of all, vitamin B2.
The effect of a mulberry positive character, unfortunately, does not always appear. Often it is very limited and short-lived. That is why the mulberry tree, however, like other plants with antidiabetic abilities, is recommended to be used only with mild diabetes, and only as an additional remedy, d and then after the doctor's recommendation.
Tincture is prepared as follows. Take crushed mulberries (2 spoons). Insist raw materials in boiling water (a glass). Wait until nakonatsya, hours 4. Drink a quarter of a cup as a diaphoretic, diuretic and expectorant.
As a healing agent, dry mulberry leaves are used. They eat food before consumption. They will help with mild diabetic form.
The mulberry cortex is recommended as an adjunct to other medicines for hypertension. It will also help with asthma and bronchitis. It is also useful as an antipyretic, expectorant, and diuretic.