Date: 2021-05-17What are the effects of eucommia leaf and mulberry leaf extract? The efficacy and role of Eucommia? Raw Eucommia has the effect of lowering blood pressure, and cooked Eucommia has the effect of nourishing the kidney. The unprocessed eucommia bark is called the original medicine. The raw eucommia bark is washed, brushed to remove the rough bark, separated in thickness, cut into wide strips, and dried for later use. Cooked eucommia refers to fried eucommia ulmoides, also known as salt eucommia, salted eucommia ulmoides, roasted eucommia ulmoides, Jiao eucommia, etc. To clean the eucommia silk, sprinkle it with salt water and mix well, wait until it is exhausted, and then stir-fry it with a slow fire until it is brown and used as medicine. It can nourish the liver and kidney, strengthen the bones.
Mulberry leaves are sweet, bitter, and cold in nature and return to the lungs and liver meridians. "Traditional Chinese Materia Medica" contains the effects of mulberry leaves: "Relieving wind and heat, clearing the liver and improving eyesight"; "Chinese Pharmacopoeia" (2005 edition) contains the functions and indications of mulberry leaves: "Relieving wind and heat, clearing lungs and moisturizing dryness, clearing liver and improving eyesight. It is used for wind-heat and cold, lung heat and dry cough, dizziness and headache, red eyes and dim eyes." The earliest Chinese medicine book "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" called mulberry leaf "fairy leaf".
Eucommia ulmoides leaf and mulberry leaf extract have complementary effects:
Eucommia leaves are rich in more than 80 active ingredients, and mulberry leaves also contain a variety of active ingredients, but the types of secondary metabolites in Eucommia leaves and mulberry leaves are not the same. For example, the secondary metabolites such as alkaloids contained in mulberry leaves are not found in eucommia leaves. Among them, DNJ (1-deoxynojirimycin) is unique to mulberry leaves in the plant kingdom; and some secondary metabolites in eucommia leaves It is not found in mulberry leaves, resulting in differences in the efficacy of eucommia leaves and mulberry leaves. This difference constitutes complementarity. Therefore, after the two compounds are compounded, the functions of eucommia ulmoides leaves for invigorating the liver and kidneys, strengthening muscles and bones, and mulberry leaves for dispelling wind, clearing heat, and clearing the liver and improving the purpose of function complement each other, and achieve a balance in nature and flavor.
The hypoglycemic effect of mulberry leaves is achieved in two ways: one is to inhibit the activity of disaccharide decomposing enzymes through the alkaloid DNJ (1-deoxynojirimycin), thereby inhibiting the absorption of disaccharides in the small intestine and reducing food intake. The high peak of post-blood glucose; second, the mulberry leaf alkaloid fagomine and mulberry leaf polysaccharides promote β-cells to separate insulin, and insulin can promote the cell's sugar utilization, liver glycogen synthesis and glucose metabolism, and ultimately achieve the effect of lowering blood sugar .
