Mulberry leaves boiled in water to wash the eyes is to evacuate wind-heat, brighten the eyes.
Mulberry leaves are the dried leaves of the plant mulberry, cold in nature, sweet and bitter in flavor, and belong to the lung and liver meridians. The effects of mulberry leaves are clearing the liver and improving eyesight, clearing the lungs and moistening dryness, evacuating wind-heat and calming liver-yang. It is used for wind-heat and liver-yang upturned, eye redness and swelling pain; dry throat without phlegm, lung dryness and cough, cough and chest pain; headache and fever, wind-heat and cold, the first signs of warm disease.
From the point of view of the efficacy and function of mulberry leaves, mulberry leaves boiled water to wash the eyes with evacuation of wind-heat, brightening the eyes, suitable for wind-heat, eye redness, swelling and pain, shyness and tearing.
Mulberry leaves can be used externally, can be taken internally, often used with other drugs, such as with maitake, smallpox pollen, yucca, salvia, in order to promote the production of fluids and moisturize dryness, clearing the lungs and benefiting the yin; used for the lungs and stomach yin deficiency, dry pharynx and thirst, coughing and phlegm viscous or sputum with blood in the phlegm.
Drugs should be used under the guidance of a physician, do not self-medication, to avoid causing adverse consequences.