The growing environment of Lycium barbarum.
Lycium barbarum is the dried fruit of Lycium barbarum, a wild plant in Solanaceae. Belongs to Solanaceae, Lycium.
Lycium barbarum is mainly distributed in alpine sand forest, salinized sand land, along rivers and lakes, dry riverbed and desert riparian forest. It is a unique desert medicinal plant species in western China.
Authentic Lycium barbarum is mainly produced in Qaidam Basin, Qinghai Province, and belongs to the basin desert area with an altitude of 2,800 ~ 3,000 meters.
Wild Lycium barbarum has strong adaptability and can tolerate high temperature of 38.5 degrees Celsius. And has strong cold tolerance, no freezing injury at-28 DEG C, drought tolerance and can still grow in desert areas.
Moreover, Lycium barbarum is a light-loving tree species, which develops vigorously in full light, grows weakly in shade, and has few flowers and fruits. Not strict with the soil, salt-tolerant and drought-tolerant.
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Appearance and characteristics of Lycium barbarum L.
1, shape
Lycium barbarum is a spiny shrub with a height of 20 ~ 150 cm. Many branches, hard branches, often zigzag, white.
2. Leaves and branches
2 ~ 6 leaves are clustered on short branches, fleshy, sessile, strip-shaped, strip-shaped or cylindrical, 5 ~ 30 mm long, and the top is blunt and round.
3. flowers
The 1 ~ 2 peanuts of Lycium barbarum are on the short branches on both sides of the base of the thorn. Pedicel thin, 5 ~ 10 mm long, calyx narrow bell-shaped, 3 ~ 4 mm long, with 2 ~ 4 lobes. Its corolla is funnel-shaped, the tube is often 2-3 times longer than the cornice lobes, light purple, 65438±0cm long, and the stamens of Lycium barbarum are unequal.
4. Fruit
The berries of Lycium barbarum are spherical, purple-black after maturity, 4 ~ 9 mm in diameter, and the grown seeds are kidney-shaped and brown in color.
The efficacy of Lycium barbarum.
Lycium barbarum has the functions of tonifying kidney, moistening liver, improving eyesight, invigorating stomach, strengthening brain, resisting aging and dredging menstruation. Uighur doctors often use the fruit and root bark of Lycium barbarum to treat urethral calculi, tinea scabies and gingival bleeding.
According to Zhu Jing Materia Medica, it can be used to treat heart fever, heart disease, irregular menstruation and menopause.
The research shows that the chemical composition of Lycium barbarum is complex, and it is rich in Lycium barbarum polysaccharide, pigment, fatty acid, volatile oil, vitamins, phenolic acid, betaine and trace elements. These components have the effects of antioxidation, anti-atherosclerosis, enhancing immunity and reducing blood lipid.