1, hypoglycemic
The blood sugar of rabbits was increased for a short time, then decreased for a long time, and it has not recovered after 4 ~ 8 hours. There is no obvious antagonistic effect on hyperglycemia caused by adrenaline injection. The blood sugar of rabbits was also reduced by subcutaneous injection of extract. Another bearded extract of Lycium barbarum root contained guanidine derivatives, which could significantly and permanently reduce blood sugar and increase carbohydrate tolerance in rats.
2, lowering blood pressure
The concentrated tincture of Lycium barbarum bark also showed a lasting and stable hypotensive effect by intramuscular injection of anesthetized dogs and cats or by gavage of decoction to anesthetized rats. The hypotensive effect of cortex Lycii is related to the center, and it may also block sympathetic nerve endings and directly relax blood vessels. During the period of blood pressure reduction, there was no obvious change in ECG except for the slow heart rate and the decrease of T wave.
3, antipyretic
Cortex Lycii has obvious antipyretic effect on artificial fever rabbits.
Its ethanol extract, water extract or water extract of the residue after ether extraction all have effects. Its antipyretic effect is weaker than that of aminopyrine, which is about equal to other antipyretics.
4. Antimicrobial
The decoction of Lycium barbarum L. has a strong inhibitory effect on typhoid Bacillus, paratyphoid Bacillus A and Shigella flexneri, but has no effect on Staphylococcus aureus. It has an inhibitory effect on the cytopathic effect of Asian influenza A strain 68- 1 virus, and is an inefficient bacteriostatic drug for mycobacterium tuberculosis. It can be seen that its anti-biotic effect is limited resistance, and it has no resistance to some microorganisms.
5. Treat fever
Cortex Lycii has antipyretic and cooling effects, and can be used for fever caused by immune disease, tumor, summer functional fever, chronic infectious fever, tuberculosis fever, infectious fever of lung and bronchus, etc.
6, the taboo of cortex Lycii
1. "Materia Medica": "Deficiency and fire are strong and spleen and stomach are weak, so those who eat less and have diarrhea should reduce it.
2. "Materia Medica Zhengzheng": "Do not use fake heat."
3. Introduction to Medicine: "Avoid iron."
7. How to eat Lycium barbarum bark
The method of porridge with bone skin
Cuisine and Efficacy: Nourishing Yin, Clearing Heat and Eliminating Fire, Diabetes and Hypertension.
Ingredients: wheat flour100g
Accessories: 30 grams of Lycium barbarum bark, 0/5g of mulberry bark10g of Ophiopogon japonicus,
The method of porridge with Lycium barbarum bark: soak Lycium barbarum bark, Mulberry bark and Ophiopogon japonicus in a casserole for 20 minutes, fry for 20 minutes, remove the dregs and get juice, mix flour into paste and cook it into porridge.
Dietotherapy effect of cortex Lycii
Lycium barbarum is sweet in taste and cold in nature; Meridian of lung, liver and kidney; Clear and moist into the yin, down and slightly increased;
It has the effects of clearing away deficiency heat, purging lung fire and cooling blood;
Indications: fatigue and fever due to yin deficiency, night sweats due to bone steaming, infantile malnutrition and fever, thirst quenching, cough and asthma in lung, hematemesis, epistaxis and hematuria.
Guide to the practice of cortex lycii
1, avoid iron in the bone.
2. Cortex Lycii can clear away lung heat. When lung heat is removed, lung qi is clear, and symptoms such as asthma and cough can be reduced. It is often used with Cortex Mori.
3. It can be used for hematemesis and epistaxis, and can be combined with cogongrass rhizome and cacumen Platycladi.
4. For fever due to yin deficiency and persistent low fever, it is often combined with herbs such as Artemisia annua, Carapax Trionycis and Cynanchum atratum.