Do you like berries? Tyutina is a delicacy known to everyone since childhood. But despite the fact that mulberry grows in central Russia, few people know that it has very useful healing properties. It is thanks to them that tyutina is a berry that is widely used in traditional medicine and cooking. This will be discussed in our article today.
A bit about the mulberry
Which country is the birthplace of the berry? Tyutina is believed to come from eastern China. It was from there that it began to spread first to the territory of Asian countries, and then to our Transcaucasia. In the XII century, mulberry was introduced to Europe.
What are these berries? Tyutina can be white, red or brown (black) in color, outwardly it resembles raspberries. Mulberry tree differs from the rest in that its leaves are food for the silkworm.
Mulberry in folk medicine
Before talking about the application in medicine, you need to find out exactly which vitamins and other beneficial substances contain these delicious berries.
Tyutina (mulberry) contains a lot of sugars (from 10% to 20%, depending on color), mainly fructose and glucose. If we talk about vitamins, then it is worth mentioning such as B1 and B2, PP. Of the other useful substances, they contain iron and copper, pectin and potassium, according to the content of which the fruits of the mulberry tree constitute a serious competition to the berries of black currant.
Essential oils, organic acids and trace elements such as magnesium, phosphorus, sodium, contained in this favorite treat for everyone, are also useful.
How useful is this little berry? Mulberry is often used in medicine for anemia and to restore metabolic processes in the body fresh. To solve problems with sweating, use a decoction of mulberry buds. It is believed that the fruits have a positive effect on the gastrointestinal tract, on the biliary tract.
Official medicine also recognizes the healing properties of the mulberry tree and uses it for the manufacture of drugs that reduce the acidity of gastric juice.
The most beneficial effect on the body has a regular decoction or tea from this berry. Tyutina has the following effect:
- Diuretic and laxative.
- It treats hypertension.
- It is useful for the prevention and treatment of diabetes (especially with a decoction of leaves).
- Restores disturbed metabolic processes.
Many doctors believe that mulberry helps with some mental and nervous disorders, with headache and toothache, and also has a positive effect on the genitourinary system (especially for “male” problems).
Cooking and Mulberry
The special taste can be safely added to the benefit of this small berry, which enabled her to take her place in cooking. Naturally, it is very tasty and healthy to eat fresh mulberry berries. But you can also make jam from them or various jams in combination with other berries, as well as jelly, beloved by all children.
Compote and tea are very unusual and useful, and some craftsmen, lovers of stronger drinks, know more than one secret of making homemade mulberry wine from this berry.
Tyutina can be a good component and even the basis for baking. It is often used to make pancakes, pies and pies. In addition, dried berries are ground into flour and used to make any baking, adding it to ordinary wheat or rye.
