Can the leaves and branches of Lycium barbarum be eaten?
Yes, you can make soup and the leaves can be eaten as vegetables. \ r \ Young leaves can be used as vegetables. In Guangdong, Guangxi and other places, Lycium barbarum buds have become very popular and can be bought in vegetable markets, but in the south, it is basically China Lycium barbarum without Ningxia Lycium barbarum. In northwest areas such as Ningxia, the tender leaves of Lycium barbarum are rarely used as vegetables. \r\n Lycium barbarum is listed as a "dual-purpose medicine and food" variety by the Ministry of Health, which can be processed into various foods, beverages, health wines and health products. When cooking soup or porridge, you often add it. \ r \ Lycium barbarum can be used in three parts: Lycium barbarum leaves can be made into "Gouqi tea" for drinking; The red fruit "Lycium barbarum" can be used for cooking or making tea; Lycium barbarum root, also known as "Lycium barbarum peel", is generally used as a medicinal material, so it can be called making the best use of everything. And long-term consumption of Lycium barbarum or drinking Lycium barbarum tea will not have side effects. It has a wide range of medicinal effects, such as relieving fever, treating diabetes, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. And the root of Lycium barbarum can lower blood pressure by frying it. As for Lycium barbarum tea, it can treat many diseases, such as physical weakness, cold feeling, stomach strengthening, liver and kidney diseases, tuberculosis, constipation, insomnia, hypotension, anemia, various eye diseases, alopecia, stomatitis, skin care and so on. However, because Lycium barbarum has a strong effect of warming and nourishing the body, people who suffer from high blood pressure and are too impatient, or gourmets who eat a lot of meat and are flushed on weekdays, it is best not to eat it. On the contrary, people with weak constitution, frequent colds and poor resistance had better eat it every day.