Efficacy: Nourish liver and kidney, and benefit eyesight. It can be used for asthenia, deficiency of essence, soreness of waist and knees, dizziness and tinnitus, thirst quenching due to internal heat, blood deficiency and sallow, and blurred vision.
Effect: 1. Effect on immune function: it can enhance nonspecific immunity. Mice fed with Lycium barbarum water extract or intramuscular alcohol extract and Lycium barbarum polysaccharide can improve the phagocytic function of macrophages, enhance the role of serum lysozyme, increase the titer of anti-sheep red blood cell antibody in serum and increase the number of anti-sheep red blood cell antibody-forming cells in mouse spleen.
2. Anti-aging effect: 0.5mg/kg Lycium barbarum extract can obviously inhibit LPo production in liver, and increase the activities of glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) and erythrocyte superoxide dismutase (SOD) in blood after 20 days; Human experiments show that it can obviously inhibit the production of serum LPo and increase the activity of GSH-Px in blood, but the activity of SOD in red blood cells does not increase, suggesting that Lycium barbarum extract has the effect of delaying aging.
3. Anti-liver injury: betaine hydrochloride can significantly increase phospholipids in serum and liver of rats, and has obvious protective effect on phospholipid reduction and cholesterol increase caused by long-term use of carbon tetrachloride. The water-soluble extract has similar effect, but it is slightly weaker.
4. Lowering blood sugar: Lycium barbarum extract can significantly and permanently lower blood sugar in rats, increase glucose tolerance, and has less toxicity. In addition, this product also has anti-tumor and hematopoietic functions.
Lycium barbarum formula
Braised tremella with Lycium barbarum
Braised tremella with Lycium barbarum is a traditional high-grade nourishing soup. According to legend, Sean, the founding father of the Western Han Dynasty, was deeply frightened when he saw Liu Bang killing a famous soldier. He is determined to retreat bravely. After resigning from his post and living in seclusion in the mountains, he often collects stewed tremella to show his innocence. Both Fang and Du Ruhui, the founders of the Tang Dynasty, were prime ministers. They think that a gentleman should not be just innocent. What's the harm of shedding his blood if he dies worthily? Therefore, medlar is added to the stewed tremella, which means that people should be innocent and not afraid of death. This dish has been passed down to this day. Ingredients: Lycium barbarum 25g, tremella fuciformis 150g, rock sugar 25g, sugar 50g. Cooking method: (1) Wash tremella and soak it in warm water 1 hour, remove impurities and soak it in clear water. (2) Add water to the soup pot and bring to a boil. Add rock sugar and white sugar to boil, then skim off the froth. After the sugar juice is clean, put the tremella and Lycium barbarum into a pot and stew until the tremella has colloid, then pour it into a big soup bowl. Characteristics of dishes: thick soup, sweet and smooth, nourishing and fitness.
Shredded pork with Lycium barbarum (non-Muslim)
Ingredients: main ingredients: medlar and lean pork ingredients: green bamboo shoots seasoning: refined salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine, soy sauce, starch, lard and sesame oil. Cooking method: 1. Wash pork, remove tendons and cut into 2-inch-long silk; Cut the green bamboo shoots into the same silk; Wash medlar. 2, wok fire, lard heating, then shredded pork and shredded bamboo shoots into the wok at the same time, cooking wine, sugar, soy sauce, salt, monosodium glutamate mixed evenly, add medlar, stir fry a few times, sprinkle with sesame oil.
Braised crucian carp with Lycium barbarum
Ingredients: 1 crucian carp, 12g medlar, soybean oil, onion, ginger, pepper noodles, salt and monosodium glutamate. Cooking method: 1) Wash the viscera and scales of crucian carp, shred the onion and mince the ginger; (2) Heat the oil pan, fry the crucian carp until slightly burnt, add the onion, ginger, salt, pepper noodles and water, and stew for a while; (3) Add Lycium barbarum, stew for 10 minute, and add monosodium glutamate. Characteristics of dishes: Lycium barbarum can prevent arteriosclerosis, and crucian carp contains less fat, which is beneficial to lose weight.
Gouqi porridge
Ingredients: (4 persons) Lycium barbarum L. 2 tablespoons of rice 1 tea bowl water 6 cups of rape 1 salt 1 small spoon multi-cooking method: 1. Put the rice in a deep pot, add water to boil, pay attention to prevent overflow, and simmer 1 hour. 2. Wash the rape, remove the roots, blanch it in hot water with salt, and cut it into 3-4 cm long sections. 3. If Lycium barbarum is fresh and soft, it doesn't need to be treated. If it is dry, be sure to soak it in warm water. 4. After the porridge is cooked, add salt, vegetables and medlar and cook it a little.
Fried shrimps with medlar oil
Ingredients: 500g river shrimp and 30g Lycium barbarum [1] [2] Cooking method: wash Lycium barbarum, half of which is boiled in water, extract 15ml concentrated juice, and the other half is put into a small bowl, steamed in a cage: choose river shrimp, cut off whiskers, wash and drain. Heat the wok, add vegetable oil, when it is 80% hot, add river shrimp twice, fry until the shrimp shell is crisp, take it out with a colander and drain the oil. Leave a proper amount of residual oil in the pot, add chopped green onion, Jiang Mo, white sugar, cooking wine, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, concentrated juice of Lycium barbarum and clear soup, and bring to a boil. When it is a little thick, add shrimp and cooked Lycium barbarum, turn it over a few times and add sesame oil. Features: Warming liver and kidney, strengthening yang and benefiting qi. It can be used for treating deficiency-cold of liver and kidney, premature ejaculation, nocturnal emission, frequent urination or incontinence.
Matters needing attention
Xiangke: Generally speaking, Lycium barbarum should not be eaten with too many warm tea supplements such as longan, red ginseng and jujube.