Origin

China

What is Mulberry Extract?

Folium Mori means the fresh or dry leaf of Morus alba L., with English name as Mulberry Leaf.  There are 16 kinds of this plant all over the world, distributing in the North Temperate Zone, the Asian tropics, the African tropics and the American area.  11 kinds of them grow in China, distributing in most areas of the country, major in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and the southern areas for raising silkworms. Mulberry belongs to deciduous arbor, with shrub form in common.  The bark presents ochre color, and the branch in grey-white color, with soft hairs when tender.  The leaf is like oval, with length 5-10cm, maximum to 20cm.  Unisexual flower, in yellowish-green color, comes into bloom with leaf in the same time. 

 What are Health Benefits?

Mulberry leaf contains 1-Deoxynojirimycin, flavone, steroids, saccharides , amino acid and so on

In the treatment of Chinese medicine, the mulberry leaf can be used as the medicine to improve diabetes and some other difficult and complicated cases.  The mechanism for mulberry leaf tea to lose weight is related to its effect of ?removing swelling? and ?clearing blood?.  Mulberry leaf tea can remove swelling; it?s due to the mulberry leaf favourable to the water.  This effect is different from diuresis, it not only can improve urination, but also remove the surplus moisture piling in the cells.  ?Clearing blood? means removing the excessive neutral fat and biochem cholesterol in the blood.  More neutral fat or biochem cholesterol in the blood means high blood fat disease.  Therefore, the fat people are easy to get high blood fat disease.  Mulberry leaf has the effect to improve high blood fat. 

As the modern time?s research report, the 1-DNJ (1) reduce blood glucose (2) reduce blood pressure (3) reduce biochem cholesterol (4) reduce blood fat.