Xia Xia is a white-collar worker in a network company, and she often has to work on the computer, especially when there is a lot of work, her eyes cannot leave the screen all day. In recent times, she feels that her eyes are particularly dry, afraid of light and tears, very uncomfortable. When it is particularly uncomfortable, you have to use your hands to rub, but only to temporarily relieve the discomfort. “Near the vermilion red”, Xia was inculcated in the forum a lot of health care knowledge, she subconsciously feel their own visual fatigue, so to the drugstore to buy xx eye drops, a discomfort on the drops. But still recurring attacks, sometimes waking up at night with a dry mouth.
After a detailed examination and questioning by experts, the answer was that there was no big problem, it was visual fatigue, and she was advised to pay attention to resting her eyes and making some chrysanthemum tea with goji berries. Xia Xia went back and did exactly what she was told. A week later really effective, eyes no longer have that feeling of sand, Xia Xia feel refreshed!
The liver and kidney to brighten the eyes, anti-aging – the first push wolfberry
Many people like to use wolfberry water, wine or soup, Chinese medicine has long had “wolfberry health”, that often eat wolfberry can “firm tendons and bones, resistance to cold and heat”. Therefore, it is often used as a tonic and anti-aging medicine. Chinese medicine believes that this medicine has the effect of nourishing the liver and kidney, benefitting the essence of the eyes, etc., on the liver and kidney deficiency, waist and knee weakness, dizziness and tinnitus, spermatorrhea, cough has a very good effect, good at treating yin deficiency eyes darkness, blurred vision and kidney deficiency, vitality is not vigorous, before the old age.
[Apricot Grove legend] mentioned wolfberry this medicine, there is a magical legend: in ancient times, there is an emissary to the West River on business, the road met a woman, aged 15, but is beating an old man of about eighty, ninety years old, the emissary deeply strange, asked the woman: “this old man is who? The woman said, “My great-grandson.” She said, “What is the reason for the beating?” “He refused to eat wolfberries, so he was too old to walk, so he was punished.” The ambassador then asked, “How old are you?” The woman replied, “372 years old.” The ambassador also asked, “How many kinds of medicine are there, and can I hear them?” The woman said, “There is only one medicine, but it has five names. The name of the medicine is “Heavenly Essence” in spring, “Wolfberry” in summer, “Earthly Bone” in autumn, “Fairy Battle” in winter, and “King Mother Battle” in winter. Take the four seasons to take it, life and heaven and earth life.” This story is clearly legendary. The story of the 300-year-old woman may be fictional, can not be verified. But wolfberry fitness to prolong life, anti-aging effect, later people have had many detailed discussion.
[apricot forest medicine talk] wolfberry used to treat eye disease and prolong life, generations of herbs have discussed, such as “the herb Jing Shu” that: “wolfberry, moist and nourishing, ……, specializing in kidney, moisten the lungs, the production of fluid, benefit gas, for the liver and kidney real yin deficiency, lack of labor internal heat tonic medicine. ” The “Food Therapy Herbal” clearly points out that this product has the effect of “firm tendons and resistance to aging”. The “Compendium of Materia Medica” considers this medicine “nourishes the kidney, moistens the lungs, and brightens the eyes”, and “takes for a long time to strengthen the tendons and bones, lightens the body and does not grow old, and is resistant to cold and heat. It nourishes the skin, whitens the skin, brightens the eyes and calms the mind, and gives people longevity”; “Yinhai Jingwei” states that it is “sweet in taste, enters the kidney meridian, nourishes the kidney and brightens the eyes.
Chinese medicine believes that the eyes and Chinese medicine organs liver and kidney have a close relationship, “liver open the orifice in the eyes”, “liver energy in the eyes, liver and then the eyes can identify the five colors”, “the essence of the five viscera and six internal organs are injected into the eyes and the essence of the kidney, the kidney collects essence. Therefore, the treatment of the eye, the kidney is the main”, if various reasons lead to liver and kidney yin deficiency, the eyes do not get moistened, there will be a variety of eye diseases, such as cataracts, visual fatigue, etc.. The role of Chinese wolfberry is to nourish the liver and kidney, increase the body’s “yin” nutrients, so as to brighten the eyes, prolong life.
According to modern medical science verification, wolfberry contains carotene, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, ascorbic acid, linoleic acid, B1 glutathione and other components. Wolfberry has the effect of lowering blood lipids, lowering blood pressure, anti-fatty liver, protecting the liver, stimulating respiration and dilating blood vessels. Especially, wolfberry can promote the growth of lactobacillus, which is considered to be a kind of product that can help digestion, fitness and longevity. From the above study, it can be seen that the magical legend about goji berries anti-aging can be said to be “strange in a sense”. Although the wolfberry is not possible to make people live to more than 300 years so “strange”, but the product as a kind of fitness prolongation medicine, indeed have some scientific reason.
[Apricot Grove Experimental Formula] The Qiju Dihuang Pill (made from six flavors of Dihuang Pill plus Chinese wolfberry and chrysanthemum) can nourish kidney essence, nourish liver yin and brighten the eyes, and is used for blurred vision caused by liver and kidney yin deficiency, or withered eye pain, or tears in the wind, shyness and fear of light, and is quite effective.
[Apricot Grove Pharmacy] Wolfberry is a health food that has made its way into thousands of households, and because of its bright red coat, which resembles the color of blood, many people favor it far more than other tonic medicines. It is paired with food in many ways, here is a list of food therapy recipes – black beans and wolfberry porridge, for the benefit of readers.
Indications: It has a significant effect on relieving visual fatigue, which refers to eye fatigue caused by prolonged excessive use of the eyes due to computer offices, reading books or television, etc. Visual fatigue is often manifested as dry eyes, blurred vision, etc.
Production method: black beans 100 grams, wolfberry 3 ∽ 5 grams, red dates 5 ∽ 10, wine, ginger juice, salt each appropriate amount. Add the right amount of water, boil with a rapid fire, and then simmer with a gentle fire until the black beans are cooked, you can take the soup to drink.
Drinking three methods: daily morning and evening drink, each time 2 ∽ 3 cups is appropriate, can be long-term drinking.
1, add icing sugar 30 ∽ 50 grams dissolved and drink directly.
2, in the freshly cooked black beans and wolfberry porridge add 2 ∽ 3 chrysanthemums soak and drink. Chrysanthemum has the effect of clearing the liver and eyes.
3, add 1 spoon of walnut powder, 10 ml of milk and 1 spoon of honey to the black bean and wolfberry porridge to improve visual fatigue.
Note: Boil porridge with goji berries should not be excessive, in general, healthy adults are best to consume no more than 20 grams per day. People with cold, fever, inflammation, diarrhea and other diseases, do not put wolfberry when boiling porridge, only use black beans can, or use cassia seeds instead of wolfberry.
All year round can choose the best products —- wolfberry spring, everything revives, the human yang gradually rise. Chinese wolfberry taste sweet flat tonic, spring can be taken alone, can also be taken with the taste of sweet slightly warm products at the same time, help people Yang Qi hair, such as astragalus, etc..
Summer heat, people always long for a pot of sweet and cool tea to eliminate the heat, wolfberry taste sweet, if with chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, green tea, etc., feel refreshing after drinking. Especially when combined with chrysanthemum, it can nourish the yin and brighten the eyes and clear the liver fire.
Autumn leaves wither, the air is dry, people always feel dry mouth and lips crack, skin flakes, with a lot of moisturizer also difficult to resist the sluggish autumn wind. This season eat wolfberry need with nourishing food, such as snow pear, Chuanbei, lily, yucca, etc., the effect is better. Of course, you can also use some acidic food, such as hawthorn, in order to achieve the “acid sweet Yin” effect.
In winter, people wrap themselves in thick cotton clothes to help their yang energy to resist the cold. Chinese wolfberry can flatten the Yang Qi, every day to take, especially with mutton, Cistanches, Baji Tian, Jin Kui Kidney Qi Pill and so on together, help the body Yang Qi growth, resistance to the natural cold.