How to tell the truth of Lycium barbarum?

Lycium barbarum is a kind of diet with many health-preserving functions, but the processing of Lycium barbarum is very important. If it is not handled properly, it will be very harmful to health. This harmful Lycium barbarum becomes a fake Lycium barbarum, so how to distinguish between true and false? What are the methods to distinguish between true and false Lycium barbarum? The method of identifying fake Lycium barbarum is very simple. Let's learn how to distinguish it.

1, how to tell the truth of Lycium barbarum?

(1) Touch Lycium barbarum

Touching Lycium barbarum is a relatively simple way to distinguish Lycium barbarum. Touching "poison Lycium barbarum" with your hands will make you feel sticky, while natural Lycium barbarum is relatively dry.

② Smell the smell of Lycium barbarum.

Lycium barbarum fumigated with sulfur generally smells sour or irritating, and normal Lycium barbarum only has its own taste. You can also smell Lycium barbarum in a sealed container, put it inside, and then open the lid and smell it again overnight. If the smell is super pungent and has obvious sulfur smell, it is sulfur smoked Lycium barbarum.

③ Look at Lycium barbarum.

Fresh Lycium barbarum is slightly different in color due to different producing areas, but it is soft, shiny and full of meat. However, the dyed Lycium barbarum is mostly secondhand goods from previous years. Sensually, the meat quality is poor and dull, but the appearance is bright and attractive. Therefore, when buying Lycium barbarum, you must not be greedy for "color".

In addition, you can also look at the fruit stalks of Lycium barbarum. The normal tip pedicels of Lycium barbarum are mostly white, but the colored Lycium barbarum fumigated with sulfur does not have such white spots. Normal medlar is generally reddish or dark red or slightly earthy, with dry skin and fleshy feet; The fumigated Lycium barbarum is especially bright red in color, bright in light, moist in fruit and even in surface color. Normal Lycium barbarum is pale yellow after soaking in hot water; The fumigated hot water turns brick red after soaking.

The morphology of Lycium barbarum from different habitats is slightly different. Both Ningxia Lycium barbarum and Inner Mongolia Lycium barbarum are rectangular, but Ningxia Lycium barbarum will float after soaking in water, while Inner Mongolia Lycium barbarum will sink, while Xinjiang Lycium barbarum is round and easy to distinguish. These kinds of Lycium barbarum are top grade, big and full. Because soaking in alum will make the fruit of Lycium barbarum bigger, some unscrupulous vendors use this method. However, Lycium barbarum soaked in alum is easy to distinguish. When this kind of Lycium barbarum is irradiated with light, there will be shiny crystal points on the surface of the medicinal material.

④ Taste Lycium barbarum.

Normal medlar tastes sour and sweet after soaking in hot water; Soaking in fumigated hot water tastes bitter and even spicy. When buying Lycium barbarum, you can also take a Lycium barbarum and chew it directly in your mouth. Natural Lycium barbarum acid is sweet, while "poisonous Lycium barbarum" has a heavy sour taste and bitter taste.

Lycium barbarum in different places tastes slightly different. Ningxia Lycium barbarum is sweet, especially sweet to eat, but bitter in the throat after eating; Lycium barbarum in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and other places is a little sweet. Lycium barbarum soaked in alum will taste bitter when chewed. As for the Chinese wolfberry soaked in sulfur, it tastes sour, astringent and bitter.

2. Some benefits of eating Lycium barbarum

1, improve the immune function and enhance the adaptability and adjustment ability of the body.

Eating Lycium barbarum can strengthen the body resistance, strengthen the body resistance and eliminate pathogenic factors, not only enhance the body function and promote health recovery, but also improve the body's disease resistance and resist the invasion of pathogenic factors. Enhance the adaptability of the body to various harmful stimuli.

2. It has anti-cancer effect.

Lycium barbarum has obvious inhibitory effect on the formation and spread of cancer cells. The results of contemporary experiments and clinical applications show that Lycium barbarum leaves can significantly improve and improve the immune function and physiological function of the elderly, the infirm and tumor patients, and have the functions of strengthening the body and delaying aging. Combined with chemotherapy for cancer patients, it has the functions of reducing toxic and side effects, preventing leukopenia and regulating immune function. It was found that the trace element germanium contained in Lycium barbarum tablets has obvious inhibitory effect on cancer cells, which can completely rupture cancer cells, and the inhibitory rate is 100%.

3. It has obvious eyesight improving effect.

Lycium barbarum is especially good at improving eyesight, so it is also commonly known as "discerning eyes". 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 treatment prescription.

4. It has anti-fatigue effect.

Lycium barbarum can significantly increase the storage of muscle glycogen and liver glycogen, improve human vitality and have anti-fatigue effect.

5. It has the function of enhancing learning and memory.

Lycium barbarum can improve brain function and enhance people's learning and memory ability.

6. Improve the adaptability of the body.

Lycium barbarum can improve the adaptive defense function of human body and make people endure harmful stimuli, such as hypoxia, cold and blood loss.

7, can enhance the hematopoietic function of the human body.

Lycium barbarum can obviously promote the proliferation of hematopoietic cells, increase the number of white blood cells and enhance the hematopoietic function of human body.

Lady: Anti-aging and skin care.

Lycium barbarum is full of treasures. Lycium barbarum is rich in Lycium barbarum proteoglycan, vitamin C, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients, which can replenish deficiency and produce sperm. Can be used as medicine, tea, wine and soup. If you can drink it regularly, you can keep fit. The leaves, flowers and roots of Lycium barbarum are also excellent food supplements. Lycium barbarum polysaccharide (LBP), one of the effective components rich in Lycium barbarum peel, can obviously enhance the hematopoietic function of bone marrow and various cellular immune indexes, and can obviously increase the active content of superoxide dismutase (SOD) in blood, liver and muscle tissues, which is beneficial to scavenging active oxygen, delaying aging and resisting fatigue. Increase the number of antibody-forming cells and improve the antibody effect.

8, can effectively delay aging.

Lycium barbarum is a good medicine for strengthening the body resistance, replenishing essence and marrow, nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, benefiting qi and calming the nerves, strengthening the body and delaying aging. It has been the top quality of nourishing, strengthening and nourishing people since ancient times, effectively enhancing various viscera functions, improving brain functions and resisting free radicals, and has obvious anti-aging effect.

9. It has the function of beautifying skin.

Many people don't know that eating Lycium barbarum regularly 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. Lycium barbarum has obvious curative effect on psoriasis, and also has different degrees of curative effect on other skin diseases.

Man: aphrodisiac and infertility care.

10, which has the functions of strengthening the body, strengthening yang and improving male sexual function.

As a tonic, it has a good effect on kidney deficiency and liver and kidney diseases, and can significantly increase the content of testosterone in human plasma, thus achieving the effect of strengthening the body and strengthening yang. Has obvious curative effect on sexual hypofunction.

1 1, treating male infertility.

Lycium barbarum can improve the sperm quantity and sperm motility of patients with oligozoospermia, so it can treat male infertility. Old people and patients: treating obesity, reducing blood fat and relieving allergies.

12, which has the effects of reducing blood lipid and treating hypertension.

Eating Lycium barbarum can significantly reduce the contents of serum cholesterol and triacylglycerol, relieve and prevent arteriosclerosis and treat hypertension. It is a good health product for patients with coronary heart disease.

13 can alleviate allergic inflammation.

Lycium barbarum can relieve gastrointestinal and joint pain, bleeding and other symptoms caused by allergies, and these effects are achieved by regulating endocrine.

14 has the effects of protecting liver and resisting fatty liver.

Lycium barbarum has the function of protecting liver and tonifying kidney, inhibiting fat deposition in liver cells and promoting liver cell regeneration.

15, which has the effects of lowering blood sugar and treating diabetes.

Because Lycium barbarum contains guanidine derivatives, which can lower blood sugar, Lycium barbarum can be used as a health care product for diabetic patients.

16, which can treat obesity.

Making tea with Lycium barbarum every day can reduce weight and treat obesity.

17, which can treat chronic hepatitis and liver cirrhosis.

Citrate betaine, the effective component of Lycium barbarum, has a good therapeutic effect on liver diseases such as chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis.