Ningxia goji(wolfberry)

Introduction

Ningxia goji, a specialty of Ningxia, is a product of China’s national geographical indication.

goji, also known as goji fruit, white knot needle, and Pangmiburu, belongs to the Solanaceae family. The fruit, root bark and young leaves can be used as Chinese medicine. It is mainly distributed in Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and other places. Ningxia is the main production area, especially the goji produced in Zhongning County, Ningxia, which is the best quality. It is the “red treasure” of the “Five Treasures of Ningxia”.

Ningxia is the origin of goji, and the cultivation of goji has a history of more than 500 years. goji is bright in color, large in size, thin in skin, thick in flesh, few in seeds, sweet, and of superior quality. It is a goji variety included in the Pharmacopoeia of New China. The State Administration of Medicine has designated Ningxia as the national production area of ​​medicinal goji and introduced it as one of the top ten medicinal material production bases in the country. In the Compendium of Materia Medica written by Li Shizhen, an outstanding medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, Ningxia goji is listed as a top-grade product in this book, saying that “all wolfberries used as medicine in the country are produced in Ningxia”, which means that Ningxia goji ranks among the top in China in terms of medicinal efficacy and nutritional value.

On May 18, 2004, the former General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine approved the implementation of geographical indication product protection for “Ningxia goji”.

Nutritional value

Shennong’s Classic of Materia Medica is the first ancient book to list goji in traditional Chinese medicine. For more than two thousand years, goji has been a precious traditional Chinese medicine, and its magical effects have been widely rumored. The Taiping Shenghui Fang compiled by the Imperial Academy of Medical Officers in the Northern Song Dynasty recorded a woman who was said to have taken goji leaves, flowers, seeds, and roots all year round and lived to be 370 years old. Li Shizhen’s Compendium of Materia Medica in the Ming Dynasty recorded: “In spring, goji leaves are collected, named Tianjingcao; in summer, flowers are collected, named Changshengcao; in autumn, seeds are collected, named goji; in winter, roots are collected, named Digupi”. The four ingredients are combined into pills, An elder took it regularly, and he “lived longer, walked faster, his white hair turned black, and his teeth grew back.

For modern people, the most practical effect of goji is anti-fatigue and lowering blood pressure. In addition, goji can protect the liver, lower blood sugar, soften blood vessels, lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood, and has a certain effect on patients with fatty liver and diabetes. According to clinical medical verification, goji can also treat chronic renal failure.

According to a large amount of test data, Ningxia goji is rich in nutrients and pharmacologically active ingredients. It not only contains iron, phosphorus, calcium and other substances, and is recognized internationally as a “lithium-rich” plant, but also contains a lot of sugar, fat, protein, amino acids, polysaccharide pigments, vitamins, etc. goji is a treasure from head to toe. In addition to the seeds, the flowers, leaves, roots, and skin can all be used as medicine. Su Dongpo wrote in “Small Garden Five Songs on goji” that “roots, stems, flowers, and fruits, pick up nothing to discard.” Lycium barbarum is rich in nutrition, has significant medicinal effects, and is easy to take.

Many people may not know that eating lycium barbarum regularly can improve beauty. This is because lycium barbarum can improve the skin’s ability to absorb oxygen, and in addition, it can also play a whitening role.

Medicinal value

  • Nature and flavor
  • Chinese medicine lycium barbarum: sweet, neutral. Nourishes the liver and kidneys, improves the essence and improves eyesight. Rehmannia root bark: sweet, cold. Clears heat and cools blood, and relieves deficiency heat. Lycium barbarum leaf: sweet, light, and cool. Nourishes deficiency, clears heat, quenches thirst, dispels wind and improves eyesight.
  • Mongolian medicine: sweet, light, blunt, soft, and neutral. Clears heat and removes blood stasis.
  • Indications
    • Chinese medicine lycium barbarum: treats liver and kidney yin deficiency, soreness of waist and knees, dizziness, blurred vision and excessive tears, cough due to deficiency, thirst, neurasthenia, Impotence, spermatorrhea, hemorrhagic purpura. Rehmannia root bark: Treats lung deficiency, bone steaming, hot flashes, night sweats, lung heat cough and asthma, vomiting blood, epistaxis, hematuria, hypertension, diabetes, folliculitis. Lycium barbarum leaf: Treats deficiency fever, thirst, eye diseases, metrorrhagia, leukorrhea, carbuncle, swelling and poison.
    • Mongolian medicine: Treats blood disease, amenorrhea, blood excess, mastitis, “fever”, blood stasis, heart heat.
  • Dosage and Usage
    • Chinese medicine goji 6-12 grams, decocted in water, or soaked in wine, or made into pills and powders; Rehmannia root bark 9-15 grams, decocted in water, or made into pills and powders; Lycium barbarum leaf 30-60 grams, decocted in water, or decocted water to wash eyes.
    • Mongolian medicine: 3-5 grams alone, or made into pills and powders.

Pharmacological effects

  1. Enhancement of nonspecific immunity The alcohol or water extract of Ningxia goji can significantly enhance the phagocytic ability of the reticuloendothelial system to Indian ink. The extract of goji can also significantly enhance the phagocytic ability of mouse peritoneal macrophages.
  2. Protect the liver and anti-fatty liver effect The water extract or betaine of goji can increase the phospholipid level and total cholesterol content of rat liver. It has an improvement effect on sodium tetrabromosuccinate (BSP), aspartate aminotransferase (SGPT), alkaline phosphatase, cholinesterase and other tests. In addition, it also promotes liver cell regeneration and inhibits the deposition of fat in liver cells. The effect of goji on lipid metabolism and anti-fatty liver is mainly related to the transfer of methyl donors by betaine.
  3. Other effects The decoction of goji promotes the normal hematopoietic function of mice, increases the number of white blood cells (mainly lymphocytes), and also has an antagonistic effect on the inhibition of white blood cell (mainly lymphocyte) production by cyclophosphamide. Lycium barbarum water extract can cause lower blood pressure, cardiac inhibition, respiratory and intestinal smooth muscle excitement in rabbits, and its effects can be blocked by atropine. The guanidine derivatives contained in Lycium barbarum have the effect of lowering blood sugar. Betaine also stimulates poultry growth and promotes lactic acid bacteria growth and acid production.

Precautions

Although Lycium barbarum has a good tonic and therapeutic effect, it is not suitable for all people. Because it has a strong effect of warming the body, People who are suffering from colds, fevers, inflammation, and diarrhea should not eat it.

The most suitable people to eat Lycium barbarum are those with weak constitutions and poor resistance. Moreover, you must persist for a long time and eat a little every day to see the effect.

Do not consume any tonic products in excess, and Lycium barbarum is no exception. Generally speaking, it is more appropriate for healthy adults to eat about 20 grams of Lycium barbarum per day; if you want to achieve therapeutic effects, it is best to eat about 30 grams per day. Many animal experiments on the toxicity of Lycium barbarum have proved that Lycium barbarum is a very safe food, does not contain any toxins, and can be eaten for a long time.

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