What are the benefits and effects of goji berries? A detailed guide
When it comes to goji berries, everyone is certainly familiar with them - you might even be drinking goji berry-infused water right now! We all know goji berries have the benefit of nourishing the liver and brightening the eyes, but what other benefits and effects do they have? What are the benefits of the goji berry and chrysanthemum tea we drink every day? Goji berries have different effects on different groups of people. Today let's learn together about the benefits and effects of goji berries.
Benefits of goji berries
Significantly brightens the eyes
Goji berries are especially good at brightening the eyes, which is why they are also commonly called "eye-brightening seeds." Physicians throughout history often used goji berries to treat blurred vision and night blindness caused by insufficient liver blood and kidney yin deficiency. The famous formula Qi Ju Di Huang Wan uses goji berries as its main ingredient. Folk tradition also commonly uses goji berries to treat chronic eye conditions - steamed egg with goji berries is a simple and effective medicinal food remedy.
Enhances immune function and strengthens the body's adaptive and regulatory capacity
Eating goji berries can support healthy qi and consolidate the constitution while dispelling pathogenic factors. It not only strengthens bodily function and promotes recovery, but also boosts the body's disease resistance and defends against harmful pathogens. It enhances the body's ability to adapt to various harmful stimuli.
Has an anti-fatigue effect
Goji berries can significantly increase the storage of muscle glycogen and liver glycogen, boost vitality, and have an anti-fatigue effect
Enhances learning and memory function
Goji berries can improve brain function and enhance learning and memory ability.
Improves the body's adaptability
Goji berries can enhance the body's adaptive defense function, enabling people to endure harmful stimuli such as hypoxia, cold, and blood loss
Clinical applications
1. Treating dyslipidemia
Make an instant powder from goji berries, glossy privet fruit (Ligustrum lucidum), and an appropriate amount of brown sugar. Take 6 grams twice daily, with 4 to 6 weeks as one course of treatment.
2. Treating morning sickness during pregnancy
Take 50 grams of goji berries and 5 to 10 grams of skullcap (Scutellaria baicalensis), brew with boiling water, and drink frequently while warm until recovery.
3. Treating atrophic gastritis
Dry goji berries in the sun. Take 20 grams daily, chewed on an empty stomach in 2 divided doses, with 2 months as one course of treatment. It helps with the recovery of atrophic gastritis.
4. Treating impotence
Take 30 to 60 grams of goji berries and 500 grams of baijiu (Chinese white liquor). Soak the goji berries for 15 days before drinking, 5 to 10 milliliters each time, twice daily. It can treat impotence accompanied by blurred vision, soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, and can also improve health and promote longevity.
5. Treating dry mouth at night
Chewing goji berries can treat dry mouth caused by reduced saliva secretion in the oral cavity.
How to select goji berries
Just observe and try more using the following 5 methods:
1. Compare appearance - Zhongning goji berries are long and flat. In appearance, Zhongning goji berries are long and flat, while other goji berries are mostly short and round;
2. Look at color - Zhongning goji berries are dark purple. The color of Zhongning goji berries is dark purple, and the tip end where the stem attaches is white, making them relatively easy to distinguish from other goji berries;
3. Test specific gravity - Zhongning goji berries mostly float when brewed in tea. When placed in a transparent cup of boiling water, Zhongning goji berries generally do not sink to the bottom quickly;
4. Give them a squeeze - Zhongning goji berries do not clump. Seeing a hundred times is not as good as one squeeze. Grab a handful of goji berries, give them a gentle squeeze in your hand, then let go. Zhongning goji berries will not clump and will easily scatter; 5. Have a taste - Zhongning goji berries are sweet but not cloying. Taste the flavor of the goji berries. Zhongning goji berries are sweet but not too sweet, with a pure taste and no bitterness or other off-flavors.
Tips for preparing goji berries
1. Goji berries with an alcoholic smell have already spoiled and should not be eaten.
2. Goji berries can be taken all year round. In winter, they are best cooked in porridge; in summer, they are best brewed as tea.
3. Place 3 to 5 chrysanthemum flowers and 1 to 2 goji berries into a pre-warmed cup, add boiling water, steep for 10 minutes, and drink. It has the benefits of brightening the eyes, nourishing the blood, anti-aging, and preventing wrinkles.