Who are the people who are not suitable for black wolfberry

Black wolfberry is also called black wolfberry. This black wolfberry is completely different from the wolfberry we eat in daily life. Not only is the effect completely different, but the taste is also different. Therefore, many people don’t know much about black wolfberry, and don’t know what groups of people are not suitable for eating it. Let’s learn about this issue with the editor below!

Modern people have a strong pursuit of health preservation, which is related to the improvement of people's living standards. When it comes to health preservation, everyone should be familiar with it. There are many ways to preserve health. Among them, the more common and safest one is diet therapy. Many foods often have health-preserving effects, and black wolfberry is one of them. So, let’s talk about who can’t eat black wolfberry.

Black wolfberry (scientific name: Lycium ruthenicum Murr), known as "Qionoying-Halmag" in Mongolian and "Pangma" in Tibetan medicine, belongs to the genus Lycium of the Solanaceae family. It is a thorny shrub with many branches. The branches are hard, often zigzag, and white. Distributed in Northwest China, several northwestern provinces, Tibet and Europe and Central Asia. Black wolfberry is sweet and mild in nature. It is rich in protein, wolfberry polysaccharides, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, trace elements and other nutrients. It also contains rich black fruit pigment - natural proanthocyanidins (not contained in red wolfberry), and its OPC content exceeds that of blueberry (black wolfberry contains OPC 3690mg/100g; blueberry contains OPC 330~3380mg/100g). It is the natural wild plant with the highest OPC content discovered so far. Proanthocyanidin (OPC) is the most effective natural water-soluble free radical scavenger, which is 20 times more effective than Vc and 50 times more effective than VE. Black wolfberry is known as the wild "Blue Rose"; black wolfberry is more precious and has more medicinal value than ordinary red wolfberry.

Medicinal value

Ancient Chinese Medicine Books

According to the "Uyghur Pharmacopoeia", Uyghur doctors often use the fruit and root bark of black wolfberry to treat urethral stones, tinea scabies, gingival bleeding, etc., and the people use it as a tonic, eyesight-improving and blood pressure-lowering medicine.

Classic Tibetan medicine works such as "Four Medical Classics" and "Jingzhu Materia Medica" record that black wolfberry is used to treat heart heat disease, heart disease, irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, etc., and its medicinal effect is significant. It is used as a tonic and blood pressure lowering medicine in folk medicine.

Nutritional Information

Wild black wolfberry is sweet and neutral in nature. It is rich in protein, fat, carbohydrates, free amino acids, organic acids, minerals, trace elements, bioalkali, vitamins C, B1, B2, calcium, magnesium, copper, zinc, manganese, iron, lead, nickel, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, potassium, sodium and other nutrients. Compared with red wolfberry, it is richer in nutrients such as vitamins and minerals, especially natural anthocyanins that have the function of scavenging free radicals and anti-oxidation. Its medicinal and health value is far higher than that of ordinary red wolfberry. It is known as "soft gold" and wild "blue enchantress".

Because it has a very strong effect of warming the body, people who have a cold, fever, inflammation, or diarrhea should not eat it. In addition, people with high blood pressure, those who are too irritable, or those who consume a lot of meat on a daily basis and have a red face should not eat it.

You must be careful when eating black wolfberry. Patients with inflammation, fever, or diarrhea should not eat black wolfberry. It is also best for the elderly not to eat too much black wolfberry. Because many elderly people generally have high blood pressure, it is easy to aggravate their own diseases after eating black wolfberry. You must be careful.