This product is the dried mature fruit of Lycium barbarum L., family Solanaceae. Summer, fall two seasons when the fruit is orange-red harvest, dry until the skin wrinkles, and then exposed to the sun until the outer skin dry and hard, soft flesh, remove the fruit stalks; or hot air low-temperature drying, remove the fruit stalks.
Traits of this product is fusiform, slightly compressed, 6 ~ 21mm long, 3 ~ 10mm in diameter. bright red or dark red surface, the tip of the small convex undulating stylar scars, the base of the white fruiting pedicel scars. The pericarp is pliable and wrinkled; the flesh is fleshy, pliable and viscous, with a majority of seeds, kidney-like, flattened and warped, 1.5-1.9mm long and 1-1.7mm wide, with a light yellow or brownish-yellow surface. Odorless, sweet and slightly sour taste.
Taste and attribution of sweet, flat. Attributed to the liver and kidney meridians.
Functions and IndicationsNourishing the liver and kidney, benefiting the essence and brightening the eyes. It is used in treating deficiency of essence, lumbar and knee pain, dizziness and tinnitus, internal heat and thirst, blood deficiency and atrophy, and dimming of the eyes.
Store in a cool and dry place, preventing stuffy heat, moisture and moth.
English name FRUCTUS LYCII
Source This product is the dried mature fruit of Lycium barbarum L., family Solanaceae. In summer and fall when the fruit is red harvested, hot air drying, remove the fruit stalks. Or dry until the skin wrinkled, sun dry, remove the fruit stalk.
TraitsThis product is fusiform or ellipsoid, 6-20mm long, 3-10mm in diameter, with a red or dark red surface, small raised stylar scars at the tip, and white fruiting pedicel scars at the base. Pericarp pliable, wrinkled; flesh fleshy, pliable. Seeds 20 to 50, kidney-like, flat and warped, 1.5 to 1.9mm long, 1 to 1.7mm wide, surface light yellow or brownish yellow. Slight gas, sweet flavor.
Identification take 0.5g of this product, add 35ml of water, heating and boiling for 15 minutes, cooled, filtered, filtrate with ethyl acetate 15ml vibration shaking extraction, the extract was concentrated to about 1ml, as a test solution. Also take 0.5g of Lycium barbarum control herb, the same method into the control herb solution. According to the thin layer chromatography (Appendix VI B) test, absorb the above two solutions of 5μl, respectively, point on the same silica gel G thin layer plate, ethyl acetate - chloroform - formic acid (3:2:1) as an unfolding agent, unfolding, take out, drying, and placed in the ultraviolet light (365nm) under the examination. In the chromatogram of the test material, fluorescent spots of the same color were shown on the corresponding position with the chromatogram of the control material.
The properties and flavors are sweet and flat. Attributed to the liver and kidney meridians.
Functions: Nourishing the liver and kidney, benefiting the essence and brightening the eyes. It is used for deficiency of essence, lumbar and knee pain, dizziness and tinnitus, internal heat and thirst, blood deficiency and atrophy, and dimming of the eyes.
Dosage: 6-12g.
Storage: In a cool and dry place, protected from heat, moisture and moth.
Excerpts from Chinese Pharmacopoeia
Effects
1. Effects on immune function: enhancement of non-specific immunity, mice infused with aqueous extract of Lycium barbarum or intramuscular injection of alcoholic extract and polysaccharides of Lycium barbarum have increased phagocytosis by macrophages, enhanced the role of serum lysozyme, increased the potency of serum anti-sheep erythrocyte antibodies, but also increase the formation of antibodies against sheep erythrocytes in the mouse spleen, and also increase the effectiveness of the antibody against sheep erythrocytes. It can also increase the number of anti-sheep erythrocyte antibody-forming cells in the spleen of rats.
2. Delay aging effect: Lycium barbarum extract 0.5mg/kg mice gavage, ***20 days can significantly inhibit hepatic LPo generation, and make the blood glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) activity and erythrocyte superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity; human test showed that it can significantly inhibit the generation of serum LPo, so that the blood GSH-Px activity increased, but the erythrocyte SOD activity did not rise. The human test showed that it could significantly inhibit the generation of serum LPo and increase the GSH-Px activity in blood, but the SOD activity of erythrocytes did not increase, suggesting that Goji barbaric acid extract has the effect of delaying aging.
3. Anti-hepatic injury: betaine hydrochloride can make rats serum and liver phospholipids increased significantly, the long-term administration of carbon tetrachloride-induced decline in phospholipids and cholesterol elevation in rats with a significant protective effect, water-soluble extracts also have a similar effect, but a little weaker.
4. Hypoglycemia: Lycium barbarum extract can significantly and persistently reduce blood glucose in rats, increase glucose tolerance, and less toxic. In addition, this product has anti-tumor, promote hematopoietic function and other effects.
Botanical Forms ① Lycium barbarum ("Benjing"), also known as: Chinese wolfberry ("Poetry"), berry fringe ("Mao Poetry Biography"), berry jealousy ("Benjing"), goat's milk ("Wu Pu Materia Medica"), bitter Chinese wolfberry, ground tendons ("Guangya"), like firewood, pure Lu, immortal staff, but the old, heavenly essence ("Clasp Parker's Tract"), but the summer (Bielu), ground fairy ("Ri Huazhi Materia Medica"), berry thorns ("Derivation of the Materia Medica"), dog Ground Buds ("Herb Diffusion"), Red Garnet Family, Shishou Tree.
Trailing shrub, up to 1 meter high.
Branches slender, young branches angular, outer skin gray, glabrous, usually with short spines, born in the axils of leaves, about 5 cm long.
Leaves alternate or several clustered; leaf blade ovate-rhombic to ovate-lanceolate, 2-6 centimeters long, 0.6-2.5 centimeters wide, apex pointed or obtuse, base narrowly cuneate, entire, both surfaces glabrous.
Flowers axillary, usually solitary or in several-flowered clusters: calyx campanulate, 3-4 mm long, apex 3-5-lobed; corolla funnelform, lower part of tube conspicuously minutely contracted, then gradually enlarged upward, ca. 5 mm long, apex 5-lobed, lobes long ovate, several times as long as the tube, purple, margin sparsely ciliate, with a whorl of pilose hairs a little above the insertion of stamens in the tube; stamens 5, inserted within the corolla, anthers butternut-shaped. Stamens 5, inserted in corolla, anthers butternut-shaped, 2-loculed, filaments usually protruding; pistil 1, ovary oblong, style fine, stigma capitate.
Berry ovate or oblong, 0.5 to 2 centimeters long, 4 to 8 millimeters in diameter, dark red or orange-red.
Seeds numerous, reniform and compressed, brownish yellow.
Flowering June to September.
Fruiting July to October.
Grows on mountain slopes, field ridges, or hilly areas.
Distributed in most parts of the country.
②Ningxia wolfberry shrub or cultivated into a small tree-like, up to 2-3 meters high.
The main branches are several, stout, fruiting branches are slender; the outer skin is light gray-yellow, spiny branches are short and thin, born in the axils of leaves, 1～4 cm long.
Leaves alternate, or several clustered on short branches; petiole short; leaf blade narrowly oblanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, 2-8 cm long, 0.5-3 cm wide, apex pointed, base cuneate or narrowly cuneate and decurrent into petiole, entire, dark green above, light green below, glabrous.
Flowers axillary, usually in clusters of 1 to 2, or in clusters of 2 to 5 on short branches; calyx campanulate, 4 to 5 mm long, apex 2 to 3-parted; corolla funnelform, tube ca. 8 mm long, apex 5-lobed, lobes ovate, ca. 5 mm long; pink or light purple-red, with dark purple veins, with whorls of pilose hairs in the tube above the stamens' insertion; stamens 5; pistil 1, ovary oblong, 2-locular Styles linear, stigma capitate.
Berry ovoid, ellipsoid or broadly ovoid, 8-20 mm long, 5-10 mm in diameter, red or orange-red.
Seeds numerous, subcircular reniform and flattened.
Flowering May to October.
Fruiting period June to October.
Grows on ditch banks and slopes or irrigation ridges and canals.
Both wild and cultivated.
Distributed in Gansu, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai and other places.
The root bark of the above plant (dijianpi), young stem and leaves (wolfberry leaves) are also used for medicinal purposes, each detailed in a special article.
Ordinary Chinese wolfberry tea and water can prevent wrinkles. Boil water with a few Chinese wolfberry with boiling water, drink a few times, can treat constipation