Lycium ruthenicum is named "Jonoying-Halmag" in Mongolian and "Pangma" in Tibetan medicine. Lycium ruthenicum is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and is rich in protein, Lycium barbarum polysaccharide, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, trace elements and other nutrients. Its greatest efficacy is its anti-aging effect, and it is a natural cosmetic for women.
Black Lycium barbarum is more nutritious than red Lycium barbarum, and it is rich in anthocyanins that red Lycium barbarum does not have. Lycium barbarum contains 17 kinds of amino acids and 13 kinds of trace elements, among which, magnesium, copper, zinc, manganese, iron, lead, nickel, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, potassium and sodium play an important role in maintaining normal physiological functions of human body, and protein, fat, sugar, free amino acids, organic acids, minerals, trace elements, alkaloids and vitamins C, B1 and B2. Black Lycium barbarum also has the function of improving the brain and enhancing people's learning and memory ability.
Lycium barbarum L. is distributed in alpine sand forest, salinized sandy land, along rivers and lakes, and in dry riverbed. It is a unique desert medicinal plant species in western China, mainly produced in eastern Qinghai, with sporadic distribution in northern Xinjiang, western Inner Mongolia, northwestern Shaanxi, Gansu and Tibet.
Lycium barbarum can be chewed directly, soaked in water or soaked in wine, and the eating effect is good. Eating directly can absorb the nutrients in Lycium barbarum to the greatest extent, and the anthocyanin in Lycium barbarum is water-soluble, and the effect of soaking in water is also very good.
its biggest effect is its anti-aging effect
main effect
1. beauty beauty delays aging
Anthocyanin in Lycium barbarum is the most effective antioxidant in nature at present, and its antioxidant activity is 5 times that of vitamin E and 2 times that of vitamin C. Regular consumption of Lycium barbarum can well resist the external oxidation of cells, remove the accumulation and precipitation of harmful free radicals in the skin, protect collagen, and make the skin fresh and elastic. Black Lycium barbarum is called "oral skin cosmetics" and "natural anti-aging artifact".
2. strengthening body constitution and enhancing immunity
Lycium barbarum L. is known as "nourishing soft gold". It is rich in more than 1 kinds of essential nutrients such as protein, fat, sugar, free amino acids, organic acids, minerals, trace elements, alkaloids, vitamins, etc. Regular consumption can nourish body constitution, enhance immunity and strengthen physique. Moreover, the trace element zinc in Lycium barbarum can increase the enzyme activity and increase the secretion of pituitary gonadotropin and growth hormone, thus treating kidney deficiency and improving sexual function.
3. Strengthening blood vessels to prevent cancer
Medical research shows that anthocyanins can improve blood circulation, restore lost microvascular efficacy and strengthen fragile blood vessels, which is called "the antidote of arteries", so doctors in Europe usually recommend people with high blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases to eat foods rich in anthocyanins. Moreover, anthocyanins in Lycium barbarum can prevent cancer cells from spreading smoothly, thereby protecting healthy cells from being eroded by cancer cells.
4. Nourishing blood, calming nerves and promoting sleep
Lycium barbarum L. is known as the "king of anthocyanins", and anthocyanins can penetrate into cells to protect cell membranes from free radical oxidation, and at the same time, cross the blood-brain barrier to protect cranial nerves from oxidation, thus stabilizing brain tissue and protecting the brain from harmful chemicals and toxins. Eating Lycium barbarum L. regularly can effectively improve sleep conditions and improve sleep quality.
5. Protecting eyes and improving eyesight
Medical clinical reports show that anthocyanins can promote the regeneration of rhodopsin in retinal cells, prevent severe myopia and retinal detachment, and improve eyesight. France has used anthocyanins to treat eye diseases for many years. Experiments have proved that anthocyanins can improve 98% of computer vision fatigue, and have a good health care effect on adolescent pseudomyopia, middle-aged and elderly people's vertigo, asthenopia and dry eye.
6. Natural sun protection against radiation
The human body will produce endogenous free radicals after radiation, which will cause lipid peroxidation and other damages. The polyhydroxy structure of anthocyanins in Lycium barbarum L. makes it have a strong effect of scavenging free radicals, thus inhibiting oxidative damage and improving skin resistance, immunity and radiation resistance. Moreover, anthocyanin is also a natural sun cover, which can effectively prevent ultraviolet rays from damaging the skin.
Lycium barbarum can be chewed directly, or soaked in water or wine
How to eat
1. Soak in water: (the water temperature is lower than 6 degrees), about 5 grams per day is suitable for adults, which can be adjusted appropriately according to their own situation or eaten dry.
2. Soaking wine: You can drink it immediately, but it is best to drink it after soaking for one month, so the effect is better.
3. Cooking soup: Cooking with chicken, duck, ribs, etc. can tonify kidney, replenish essence, nourish liver and improve eyesight.
4. Boiled eggs with Lycium barbarum L.: It can nourish liver and kidney, benefit essence and blood, and replenish qi and blood, and is suitable for neurasthenia, anemia, chronic hepatitis, vision loss and other symptoms (practice: wash Lycium barbarum L. and control dryness. Wash the eggs with shells, dry the water, put the medlar and the eggs in the pot, add appropriate amount of water, cook on the fire for 1 minutes, take out the eggs, peel off the eggshells, put them in the pot, and cook for a while before taking them.
Black Lycium barbarum is a good thing for health care, but if you buy fake or inferior black Lycium barbarum, it will not only be bad for your health, but also bring incalculable side effects, so you must learn to distinguish the quality of black Lycium barbarum from the truth.
Fake method
1. Use Nitraria tangutorum fruit instead, because the color of Nitraria tangutorum fruit is similar to that of Lycium barbarum, and you can't tell it without looking carefully. The price of Lycium barbarum is about 2, yuan/5g, while the price of Nitraria tangutorum fruit is 1,g, which can't sell 2 yuan money. It is pure fraud to sell Nitraria fruit as black wolfberry.
2. Spray water on Lycium barbarum to increase its weight and humidity. This kind of Lycium barbarum is volatile in nutrition and prone to mildew and insects.
3. Blueberry fruit is used instead. Smaller blueberry fruit is seeded and dried to pretend to be black wolfberry. Blueberry fruit is a berry with no stone, but black wolfberry is multinuclear and easy to distinguish.
4. After being dyed with other similar fruits, it is pretending to be a black wolfberry. After being brewed, the dyed black wolfberry can be distinguished. Because it contains anthocyanins, it turns blue in acidic water and purple in alkaline water, but it can only be brewed in one color.
Qinghai has the best quality, followed by Xinjiang, and Gansu has the last
Identification method
1. Identification by soaking in water: Lycium barbarum L. has a strong color and contains a lot of cyanine, which will show different performances under different water quality. Soak acidic water (mineral water) into purple, soak alkaline water (mountain spring water, tap water, etc.) into blue.
2. Appearance identification: the fruit of Lycium ruthenicum is dry and wrinkled, and the berries are oval and slightly flat after wet soaking. The surface is purple-black, with irregular wrinkles and a slight luster. Remaining styles, stipe marks and persistent calyx of fruit. Soft and moist texture. One seed, long oval, reddish brown or brown, slightly pointed at the top, triangular in shape, with a shallow longitudinal groove, extending to the middle, with a blunt round base and more than a dozen round-like dimples. Slight breath, sweet and slightly sour taste. After drying, the fruit stalk of finished Lycium barbarum can stand up, and the part after removing the fruit stalk is a very round and white circle. When it is dried thoroughly, it will become powder when squeezed by hand, which is some characteristics that other counterfeit fruits do not have.
3. Microscopic identification: Cross section of pericarp: The epicarp of Lycium ruthenicum is a row of flat cells, with thick wall, cuticle and microwave-like protrusions on the outer edge. The mesocarp consists of ten rows of parenchyma cells, which contain calcium oxalate cubes. Double tough vascular bundle hash. The first row of endocarp cells is small and elongated tangentially.
quality identification
1. Origin: Generally speaking, Qinghai has the best quality, followed by Xinjiang and Gansu. But this is not absolute. In some places in Gansu, the quality of black wolfberry is also very good.
2. particle size: at present, the particle size is mainly divided into several grades: the diameter is above 17.5px, .5-17.5px, .3-12.5px and below 1px. The bigger the particles, the higher the price and the better the appearance. However, the medicinal value of black wolfberry with large particles is the same as that of black wolfberry with small particles.
3. Cleanliness: Lycium barbarum is wild, there is no standardized production standard, and picking and airing are very troublesome, resulting in a lot of impurities in Lycium barbarum. Cleanliness mainly depends on the proportion of bad fruits, green and yellow fruits, coffee fruits and dust/impurities. This item is the main difference between ordinary black wolfberry and selected black wolfberry, and its price difference is more than 2 times.
4. Anthocyanin content: Generally speaking, Lycium barbarum L. in Qinghai has the highest anthocyanin content, the fastest outstanding speed and the strongest color of the soaked water. However, excellent fast anti-foaming, excellent slow anti-foaming, each has its own advantages, and the final choice depends on the consumer himself.