Lycium barbarum is actually the fruit of Lycium barbarum, a plant of the Solanaceae family, and there are wild lycium barbarum distributed all over China, such as Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Hebei, Guangdong and other places. Cultivated especially in Gansu, Ningxia produced the most famous.

Lycium barbarum is a deciduous small shrubs, stems clustered, lateral short branches often become short spines, born in the axils of the leaves, about 1 to 2 centimeters long. The ovate leaves are alternate or clustered on the short branches. In summer, the wolfberry blooms lavender flowers, and in the fall it bears ovoid berries.

People often say goji berry is the berries of wolfberry. After the berry is ripe must be picked in time, remove the stalk, put in the shade until the skin wrinkled, and then placed in the sun to the outer skin dry and hard, soft fruit.

Chinese medicine think wolfberry taste sweet, sex flat, to the liver, kidney meridian, can play nourish the kidney, moisten the lung, tonic liver, the role of the eyes, so can cure the liver and kidney yin deficiency, lumbar and knee soreness and weakness, dizziness, dizziness, eyes dim and tearful, deficiency of coughing, thirst and spermatorrhea and other diseases.

Tested, Chinese wolfberry contains many nutrients, in addition to containing about 1% throw betaine, also contains corn yellow pigment, so carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, medicinal acid, ascorbic acid, calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc., so often served for fitness.

To this day, people found that the reason why the wolfberry can play a role in delaying the aging, because the wolfberry can improve the liver, brain and other organs in the superoxide dismutase activity, and thus slow down the aging rate of the body.

Scientists believe that the medicinal value of goji berries also lies in its rich germanium, and germanium can enhance the vitality of the lymphocytes, preventing cell mutation caused by carcinogenic factors, and enhance the body's ability to kill cancer cells. In addition, germanium also has a high oxidizing ability, it can seize the hydrogen ions in the cancer cells, and put the cancer cells to death.

Scientists found in the experiment, let is taking strong carcinogen aflatoxin B, the animals at the same time take organic germanium, the results of these animals lesions greatly reduced.

A Japanese scientist had artificially cultured human uterine cancer cells, at the same time he found that there are 800 kinds of Chinese herbs have the effect of inhibiting the growth of cancer cells, of which goji berry, goji berry leaves and goji berry root cancer inhibition capacity of up to 90% or more.