Lycium barbarum bark is the root bark of Lycium barbarum, and it is also a kind of Chinese herbal medicine with health preserving function. Proper administration of Lycium barbarum bark can reduce blood sugar, blood pressure, reduce fever and temperature, resist bacteria and inflammation, cool blood and stop bleeding. You can cook porridge with medlar, such as medlar porridge, Sophora japonica porridge, medlar and platycodon root stewed with white lung and so on. Regular consumption has a good health care effect.

Most people are familiar with Lycium barbarum and often take it in the form of water, porridge or decoction, but many people are not familiar with Lycium barbarum bark. In fact, Lycium barbarum skin is also called Lycium barbarum skin, which is the root skin of Lycium barbarum. Like Lycium barbarum, it is also a Chinese herbal medicine with health preserving function. So, what are the functions and functions of Lycium barbarum bark?

First, the efficacy and function of Lycium barbarum bark

1. Reduce blood sugar

Experiments show that the extract of Lycium barbarum peel can lower blood sugar for a long time, so diabetics can boil water or cook porridge with Lycium barbarum peel, which can control blood sugar stability.

bring down the blood pressure

Because cortex Lycii can relax blood vessels and play a certain role in lowering blood pressure, patients with hypertension can take cortex Lycii appropriately to stabilize blood pressure.

Reduce fever and body temperature

The ethanol extract and ether extract from Lycium barbarum bark have good antipyretic effect, so when the body temperature rises due to diseases such as inflammation, it can also be used to reduce fever and temperature, with good effect.

4. Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory

In the experiment, it was found that taking Lycium barbarum decoction had a certain inhibitory effect on typhoid bacilli, dysentery bacilli and other bacteria, so when there was inflammation in the body, taking Lycium barbarum decoction could also alleviate the disease.

5. Cool blood to stop bleeding

The cortex Lycii is cold. Proper use of cortex Lycii can cool blood and stop bleeding, so taking cortex Lycii can also relieve cough, vomiting blood and hemoptysis caused by lung heat.

Second, the eating method of Lycium barbarum peel

1. Chinese wolfberry skin porridge

First, soak Cortex Lycii, Cortex Mori and Radix Ophiopogonis in a casserole for 20 minutes, and then decoct for 20 minutes. After removing residue and leaving juice, add proper amount of flour and stir it into paste, and then cook it into porridge. Regular consumption can effectively lower blood pressure, blood sugar, clear heat and reduce fire.

2. Huai rice porridge

Bone Sophora japonica porridge boiled with Lycium barbarum peel, Radix Rehmanniae, Flos Sophorae Immaturus and japonica rice is very suitable for women.

3. Braised white lungs with medlar and platycodon grandiflorum

Wash the pig lungs until they turn white, then put them in a pot and stew them with ginger and water. At the same time, add Cortex Lycii, Radix Platycodi, Radix Panacis Quinquefolii, Apricot, etc. Stew in a saucepan with water, and then stew the cooked pig lungs in this pan for 3 or 4 hours. Regular consumption can nourish the body and relieve symptoms such as chronic cough and excessive phlegm.