What are the functions, effects and contraindications of wolfberry?

I believe that many friends hope to drink a bowl of warm health-preserving soup in a cold autumn and winter, which will make people feel warm all over the body. If we observe carefully, we will find that many health-preserving soups for keeping warm contain wolfberries, which shows that wolfberries can add more calories to us. In fact, there are some taboos about wolfberry. So what are the functions, effects and taboos of wolfberry? Let's take a look at it together in the following time.

Let’s take a look at the effects of wolfberry! Wolfberry is sweet and mild in nature. It can nourish the kidney and replenish essence, nourish the liver and improve eyesight, replenish blood and calm the mind, promote fluid production and quench thirst, moisten the lungs and relieve cough. It is used to treat liver and kidney yin deficiency, soreness of waist and knees, dizziness, blurred vision, excessive tearing, consumptive cough, thirst, and spermatorrhea. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can not only better nourish the liver and kidneys, improve eyesight and nourish blood, but also enhance people's immunity.

Wolfberry is rich in carotene and multiple vitamins, which can better prevent heart disease and cancer. For modern people, the most practical effect of wolfberry is anti-fatigue and lowering blood pressure. Lycium barbarum can also better protect the liver, lower blood sugar, soften blood vessels, and lower blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels. It also has certain therapeutic effects on patients with fatty liver and diabetes.

Although wolfberry has excellent nourishing and therapeutic effects, it is not suitable for everyone. The most suitable people to eat wolfberry are those with weak constitution and poor resistance. Moreover, you must persist in taking it for a long time and eat a little every day to see the effect. However, due to its strong effect of warming the body, people who have a cold, fever, inflammation, diarrhea, high blood pressure, too irritable temperament, or people who consume a lot of meat on a daily basis and have a red face should not eat it. In addition, wolfberry is generally not suitable for taking too much warm tonic such as longan and red ginseng. It can be eaten with dates. It is contraindicated for patients with exogenous pathogenic heat, spleen deficiency with dampness and diarrhea. Do not consume any tonic products in excess, and wolfberry is no exception.

The above paragraphs briefly tell us about some of the effects, functions and contraindications of wolfberry. I believe that friends who read it carefully will have a more standard conclusion on the above questions. But I hope everyone can apply them to real life, because it is related to our physical health, so we must not be careless. Especially those who have children at home should pay more attention.