Wolfberry

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Hi folks:

Obvious I suppose, but a Google search turns up lots of references

for wolfberries. They are also called Gou Ji Zi; Desert Thorn;

Squawberry; Matrimony Vine; Who knows which of the following sites

provide accurate information? Here are a few of them:

http://snipurl.com/fdie

http://www.herbalremedies.com/wolfberry.html

http://www.richnature.com/products/herbal/wolfberry.htm

http://www.chinanaturalproduct.com/wolfberry.htm

http://www.prescott.edu/highlights/farm.html

http://hanlin.hit.bg/wolfberry.htm

http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/63945/

It appears to be referred to as Lycium Barbarum, Lycium Chinensis,

Lycium Pallidum, Lycium Halimifolium, Lycium Vulgare and no doubt

plenty of other names.

And also ............................

" Wolfberry fruit recipes by Chinese:

1. Chew: Chew 10-15 gram of fruits every morning and evening.

2. Tea:

· Boil 15-gram wolfberry fruits, make a wolfberry tea and

drink it every day. It helps to alleviate the effects of high blood

pressure and high blood sugar.

· Take 6 gram of wolfberry fruits and 6 gram of chrysanthemum

(Flos chrysanthemi, L) to make a tea. It helps to alleviate blurry

vision.

· Take 4 or 5 wolfberry fruits, green tea, sugar, raisins,

walnuts, date, democarpus langan lour fruit, hawthorn, and ziayphus

jujuba mill fruits, to make an eight-ingredients tea (Chinese call it

eight treasure tea).

3. Wine:

· Put 25 gram of wolfberry fruits and some Chinese cooking

wine in a bottle or a jar and carefully seal it. It is ready to use

after 30 or 60 days. Drink once per day. It helps to alleviate

teary eyes.

· Take 200 gram of wolfberry fruits and 1 liter of Chinese

white wine and seal them in a bottle or a jar. Ready to use in 10

days.

4. Stew or steam with meat:

Stew pork, beef, chicken or fish, add 15-25 gram of wolfberry fruits

10 minutes before the meat is done. You may steam fish or chicken

with wolfberry fruits as well.

5. Rice soup:

Take 50 gram of wolfberry fruits and 100 gram of rice and add some

sugar to make rice soup.

6. Cereal:

Mix 15 gram of wolfberry fruits with cereal to make a healthy

breakfast.

7. Bread or muffin:

Use wolfberry fruits to make a banana bread or muffins just like

raisins. Wolfberry bread provides more nutrients than raisins.

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(Chinese Herb News). 1986, 11(3):41.

2. Wang Qiang, Chen Suiqing, Zhang Zhehua, et al. The

Measurement of Lycium Barbarum Polysaccharide (LBP) in Lycium

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3. Zhong Guo Shipin Bao (China Food News). March 2, 1998.

4. Data in Rich Nature Nutraceutical Laboratories. 1998.

5. Geng Changshan, Wang Geying, Lin Yongdong, et al. Effects

on Mouse Lymphocyte and T Cells from Lycium Barbarum Polysaccaride

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Rodney.