Usually eaten with lean meat, or pig liver, or eggs in soup. When the water boils, add the wolfberry leaves and cook until it turns dark green.

Wolfberry leaves are sweet, bitter and cool in nature; they enter the liver, spleen and kidney meridians. It has the effect of tonifying deficiency and benefiting essence, clearing heat and thirst, dispelling wind and brightening eyes, generating fluids and replenishing liver; it is mainly used for treating waist pain of deficiency labor, fever and thirst, eye redness and faintness, cataract and night blindness, leakage and subluxation, and feverish sores and swellings.

Guangxi side that pregnant women eating wolfberry leaves can remove fire, and will not be too cold.