1. What is the effect of soaking medlar in water?
1, nourishing liver and improving eyesight
Lycium barbarum polysaccharide has protective effect on experimental liver injury, which can reduce serum alanine aminotransferase and promote the repair of liver injury. Wang Deshan studied the dose-effect relationship and toxicity of Lycium barbarum against experimental hyperlipidemia. The experimental results show that Lycium barbarum can inhibit fat deposition in liver cells and promote liver cell regeneration.
2. Anti-aging
Lycium barbarum is rich in antioxidant substances such as Lycium barbarum polysaccharide, β-carotene, vitamin E, selenium, flavonoids and so on, which has good antioxidant effect. Lycium barbarum can resist free radical peroxidation and reduce the damage of free radical peroxidation, thus helping to delay aging and prolong life.
3. Nourish liver and kidney
Chinese medicine believes that Lycium barbarum can nourish liver and kidney, benefit eyesight, enrich blood and enhance human immunity. For modern people, the most practical function of Lycium barbarum is to resist fatigue and lower blood pressure. In addition, Lycium barbarum can protect liver, lower blood sugar, soften blood vessels, and reduce the levels of cholesterol and triglyceride in blood, which has certain curative effect on patients with fatty liver and diabetes. According to clinical medical verification, Lycium barbarum can also treat chronic renal failure.
4. Beauty
Many people don't know that eating Lycium barbarum often can help beauty beauty. This is because Lycium barbarum can improve the ability of skin to absorb oxygen, in addition, it can also play a whitening role.
5, improve the quality of sleep
Lycium barbarum is suitable for eating all year round. Regular drinking can improve physical fitness, alleviate some sleep problems such as poor sleep quality and difficulty in falling asleep, which is conducive to improving sleep quality.
Lycium barbarum is eaten differently in winter and summer. Suitable for making tea in summer and soup in winter. The best time to make tea is afternoon, which is good for sleeping.
2. How to choose Lycium barbarum
1, from the quality point of view
If they are all regular Chinese wolfberry, there are also differences in quality. The super variety of Lycium barbarum is dark purple and uniform in color, without blackheads, while the poor quality is uneven in red with many blackheads.
2. From the perspective of color
Most dyed or vulcanized medlars are bright red, and their appearance is particularly attractive, while authentic medlars are dark red, so you must not be greedy for "color" when buying medlars. Moreover, colored Chinese wolfberry feels sticky, but authentic Chinese wolfberry doesn't. As for the dyed medlar, rubbing it hard with your fingers will reveal its true colors. Judging from the navel of Lycium barbarum (the separation of fruit and fruit stalk), the normal navel of Lycium barbarum is white, the navel of Lycium barbarum containing sulfur is yellow, and the navel of Lycium barbarum with color is red.
3. From the point of view of shape
Both Ningxia Lycium barbarum and Inner Mongolia Lycium barbarum are rectangular, but Ningxia Lycium barbarum will float when soaked in water, while Inner Mongolia Lycium barbarum will sink. Xinjiang Lycium barbarum is round and easy to distinguish. These kinds of Lycium barbarum are all big and full top grades. Many merchants use this method because soaking in alum will make wolfberry fruit bigger. But Lycium barbarum soaked in alum is still easy to distinguish. If this kind of Lycium barbarum is irradiated with light, there will be shiny crystals on the surface of the medicinal material.
4. Judging from the smell
You can grab a handful of medlar, cover it with your hand for a while, and put it in front of your nose to smell it. If the smell is pungent, it is obviously sulfur.