All parts of the mulberry, including the fruit, leaves, twigs, and root bark can be used for health benefits. The fruit and the root bark can be characterized as having a slightly sweet flavor, while the leaves and twigs are bitter. The fruit, leaves, and twigs can all be beneficial for complaints related to the liver. The leaves and root bark can be used to support lung-related concerns. The fruit can also be used to help support healthy normalizing kidney-adrenal function and improve heart health.

In terms of biochemical composition, the fruit contains 27% saccharides, 3% citric acid, and vitamin C. The leaves contain carotene, succinic acid, adenine, choline, and amylase. The root bark contains flavonoid (morusin, mulberrin, mulberrochromene, kuwanone-A, -B, cyclomorusin), coumann (scopoletin, umbelliferone), rnterpenoid, and tannin.

Mulberry fruit is a Yin and blood tonic which may have demulcent nutritive properties. It can be used to help support symptoms of hypersensitivity, nervousness, anemia, and dizziness caused by weakness and deficiency, hypertension, dry constipation. It is contraindicated for someone with a tendency towards diarrhea.

Mulberry root bark is an expectorant and antitussive and can be used primarily to help support inflammation of the lungs. It may help fight coughs, can help reduce and bring up phlegm, and may help support healthy levels of hypertension. It is contraindicated for someone whose cough is caused by coldness.

Mulberry leaf is a cooling and calming diaphoretic and can be used to help support feverish colds, headache, sore throat, acute conjunctivitis and vomiting of blood. It is contraindicated for someone with a cold, weak condition of the lungs with low vital energy.

Mulberry branch is primarily used as an antirheumatic and anti-spasmodic for the potential to help support symptoms related to joint and rheumatic problems and hypertension.

Even the mistletoe growing on the mulberry tree may have positive therapeutic properties not unlike European mistletoe (Viscum album). Both can be used to help support hypertension and are classified as being antispasmodic and antirheumatic. Both have analgesic and anticarcinogenic properties. They can be used to help support hypertension and to help support rheumatic pains and spasms especially of the upper part of the body.

Mulberry
Morus nigra
(Blackberry)

Medicinal Usage

The leaves of the mulberry were prescribed for colds, fevers and headaches, and to staunch bleeding; and the fruit for mouth irritations, sore throats and constipation. Culpeper said that "the juice of the leaves is a supportive against the bites of serpents, and for those that have taken aconite."

Culinary Usage

The fruit of the mulberry was eaten raw and cooked as a food. During the Middle Ages they were the main ingredient in a sweet and spicy pottage, known as 'murrey', often reinforced with pulped meat. Mulberries were also used to make jams, jellies, syrup, and wine. Unscrupulous innkeepers often sold English grape wine (doctored with mulberries to give it colour and a fuller taste) as Malmsey or French wine.

Miscellaneous

In the silk industry of ancient China the white mulberry (Morus alba) was cultivated as silkworm food. The secret of silk production was eventually discovered by the Greeks and Romans, the latter introducing the black mulberry to Britain for its fruit. Its botanical name Morus comes from the Latin for to delay, after the tree's habit of postponing the formation of buds in spring until after the cold weather has ended. Even then, as Pliny noted, "it is one of the latest trees to blossom, but among the first to ripen." The tree was listed by Aelfric.

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