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 has become widespread in folk medicine and cooking. This will be discussed in our article today.
A little about the mulberry tree
Which country is the birthplace of the berry? Tyutina is believed to come from the eastern part of 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 brought to Europe.
What are these berries? Tyutina can be white, red or brown (black), outwardly it resembles raspberries. The mulberry tree differs from the rest in that its leaves are food for the silkworm.
Mulberry in folk medicine
Before talking about applications in medicine, you need to know whichvitamins and other beneficial substances contain these delicious berries.
Tyutina (mulberry) contains a lot of sugars (from 10% to 20%, depending on the color), mainly fructose and glucose. If we talk about vitamins, then it is worth mentioning such as B1 and B2, PP. Among other useful substances, they contain iron and copper, pectin and potassium, according to the content of which mulberry fruits seriously compete with blackcurrant berries.
Essential oils, organic acids and trace elements such as magnesium, phosphorus, sodium, contained in this favorite delicacy are also useful.
What is the use of 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, a decoction of mulberry buds is used. It is believed that the fruits also have a positive effect on the gastrointestinal tract, on the biliary tract.
Official medicine also recognizes the medicinal properties of mulberry and uses it to make drugs that reduce the acidity of gastric juice.
The most beneficial effect on the body has a simple decoction or tea from this berry. Tyutina has the following effect:
- Diuretic and laxative.
- Treats hypertension.
- Useful for the prevention and treatment of diabetes (especially the decoction of the leaves).
- Restores disturbed metabolic processes.
Many doctors believe that mulberry helpswith 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 mulberries
To the benefits of this small berry, you can safely add a special taste, which gave her the opportunity to take her place in cooking. Naturally, it is very tasty and he althy 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, the dried berry is ground into flour and used to make any pastry, adding it to ordinary wheat or rye.
