Gelso

Scientific Name: Morus alba L. 

Family: Moraceae 

Contains: tannin, calcium carbonate, flavonoids, antocianosidi, organic acids, carbohydrates, amino acids, folic acid, folinic acid, manganese, zinc, boron, copper, and volatile compounds. 

Parts used: root, bark, leaves and fruits 

It's una pianta arborea from China Eastern and Central Europe. It's a tree that can reach a height of 10-12 meters with large foliage. The roots are strong, and deep yellow orange. The buds are relatively small, broad at the base and pointed at the apex. The leaves are lost, alternate, broad, glossy green in color not too dark. The flower is a catkin inflorescence unisessuale with light-colored, Morus alba plant is monoecious or in the same sample, there are inflorescences of both sexes. The fruit is a false fruit Soros named, consisting of a infructescenses with pseudodrupe dall'esocarpo thin mesocarpo meaty and succulent. 

From the fruits of mulberry syrup was preparing an acid and astringent, which diluted in water was a good thirst quencher, was used in the form of colluttorio to gargle in inflammation of the mouth and throat, the cough and expectorant. Even the bark of the root, which attaches action and anti-inflammatory analgesic, was used as a medicine and, to that end, we advised as purgative, diuretic and hypoglycemic. This property, which is attributed in particular to the leaves, which have an astringent action, if prepared in decoction, but it should deepen the research. 

Also to remember the properties of the white variety (Morus alba), the subject of numerous scientific studies that have demonstrated, experimentally, antibacterial activity, effective against Streptococcus mutans, a bacterium implicated in dental caries. The root of the mulberry tree, valued remedy of traditional Chinese medicine against cough el'asma, has shown in experimental studies the ability of the alcohol against HIV. Make a decoction of the leaves with fresh may be useful to obtain an antibacterial, hypoglycemic capacity, while the decoction of the root, the aqueous extract, in experimental studies, has produced hypotensive and sedative effects. 

It's good for hypertension, diarrhea, cough, asthma, infections, Hypoglycaemia. 

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