Lycium barbarum is best chewed dry.
Traditional Chinese medicine has long said that "Lycium barbarum keeps healthy", and many people also like to use it to soak in water, make soup or cook porridge in their lives. In terms of eating methods, direct chewing is more beneficial to the health care function of Lycium barbarum. Lycium barbarum dry chewing has the best effect and the most comprehensive nutrient absorption. Just chew 10 tablets a day.
However, when you chew Lycium barbarum, you should pay attention to the fact that the amount you eat is best halved, otherwise it will be easy to overnutrition. Generally speaking, it is more appropriate for healthy adults to eat about 20 grams of medlar every day; If you think about the effect of treatment, you can eat about 30 grams a day. When choosing Lycium barbarum, you should choose those with big particles, red color, thick meat, soft texture, sweet taste, sticky chewing, and can dye saliva red and yellow, so that the quality of Lycium barbarum is the best.
Who is suitable for eating Lycium barbarum?
Although Lycium barbarum has a good nourishing and therapeutic effect, it is not suitable for everyone. Because its warm-up effect is quite strong, people with colds, fever, inflammation and diarrhea had better not eat it. The people who are most suitable for eating Lycium barbarum are people with weak constitution and poor resistance. And we must persist for a long time, and eat a little every day to be effective.
How much is Lycium barbarum?
Don't overdo any tonic, and Lycium barbarum is no exception. Generally speaking, it is more appropriate for healthy adults to eat about 20 grams of medlar every day; If you consider the effect of treatment, it is best to eat about 30 grams a day. Now many animal experiments about the toxicity of Lycium barbarum prove that Lycium barbarum is a very safe food, which contains no toxin and can be eaten for a long time.
Lycium barbarum is flat and has no toxic and side effects after long-term use. But under special circumstances, be careful not to take it. Do not take it when you have a cold or diarrhea. If your body is hot, you should mix it with something cold or reduce the dose.
Effect of soaking Lycium barbarum in water
Soaking in water can often be paired with some other skin care products, such as medlar+red dates, which is better for girls. Lycium barbarum+Chrysanthemum morifolium has outstanding functions of nourishing liver and improving eyesight. There is no limit to the number of cups of drinking water, but the overall dosage should be controlled within 20G per day. Don't overdo it. It is recommended to drink wolfberry tea at four or five in the afternoon, so that it can be absorbed better.
How to clean medlar
As for cleaning, because Lycium barbarum is dried in the sun, if you are worried about dust or something, you can wash it with clear water once.
Edible method of Lycium barbarum
Lycium barbarum L. is a kind of commonly used nutritional tonic, which is commonly used by the people to cook porridge, boil ointment, soak in wine or eat with other drugs and foods. Lycium barbarum has been a top-grade tonic since ancient times, and it has the effect of delaying aging and resisting aging, so it is also called "Quelaozi". According to "Cramming for Buddha", in ancient times there was an alien named "Barefoot Zhang" who taught an old man in Yixian how to eat Lycium barbarum. The old man insisted on eating and lived 100 years old. "Walking like flying, turning white and turning black, teeth falling and updating, yang is strong." Health-preserving physicians and medical scientists of all ages have attached great importance to the nourishing function of Lycium barbarum. "Materia Medica Yan Hui" holds that Lycium barbarum can make "invigorating qi, enriching blood, giving birth to Yang Can, nourishing yin and removing rheumatism, which is perfect." Li Shizhen summarized the main function of Lycium barbarum in Compendium of Materia Medica as "nourishing kidney, moistening lung and improving eyesight", which was concise and practical. Deficiency of kidney yin, liver blood deficiency, causes soreness of waist and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, nocturnal emission and other symptoms, so Lycium barbarum should be used. Lycium barbarum pill, a famous prescription for nourishing kidney and liver recorded in the records of ancient and modern prosecutors, takes Lycium barbarum as the main medicine, and is compatible with Rehmannia glutinosa and asparagus. Lycium barbarum is also suitable for patients with lung yin deficiency and frequent dry cough. It can be used together with nourishing yin and moistening lung such as Ophiopogon japonicus, Anemarrhena asphodeloides and Fritillaria.
Lycium barbarum is especially good at improving eyesight, so it is also commonly known as "discerning person" Chinese wolfberry is often used by doctors in past dynasties to treat blurred vision and night blindness caused by liver blood deficiency and kidney yin deficiency. The famous prescription "Siju Huangdi Pill" takes Lycium barbarum as the main medicine. People also use Lycium barbarum to treat chronic eye diseases. Steamed eggs with Lycium barbarum is a simple and effective prescription.
Pay attention to the cooking method when adding medlar to cook. The cooking time of Lycium barbarum should not be too long. Lycium barbarum should be added at the end of cooking or soup, so as to prevent the loss of a large number of nutrients. So Lycium barbarum is more suitable for making tea or cold dishes. Lycium barbarum is not suitable for long-term cleaning. If it is washed for a long time, the nutrients in it will be lost. It is recommended to wash with warm water.
Because Lycium barbarum has a very strong effect of warming and nourishing the body, people with high blood pressure and impatience should not eat meat if they eat a lot in their daily diet. Patients with colds, fever, inflammation, diarrhea and other emergencies should not eat during the onset.