The efficacy of licorice and wolfberry

I believe everyone is familiar with licorice. Licorice is a common Chinese medicine. Licorice not only has good medicinal effects but also can play a health-care role. We can not only use licorice to make various medicinal foods, but also use licorice to make tea. Licorice combined with wolfberry not only looks very good but also tastes very good. In addition, licorice combined with wolfberry can also play a good health-preserving effect.

Licorice, (scientific name: Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch) alias: Guolao, sweet grass, Ural licorice, sweet root. It is a perennial herb of the Leguminosae family and the genus Glycyrrhiza, with thick roots and rhizomes. It is a tonic Chinese herbal medicine. A very good medicine for the human body. The medicinal parts are the roots and rhizomes. The roots are cylindrical, 25 to 100 cm long and 0.6 to 3.5 cm in diameter. The skin has varying degrees of tightness and the surface is reddish brown or grayish brown. The rhizome is cylindrical, with bud scars on the surface and pith in the middle of the cross section. It has a slight odor and a sweet and special taste. Functions and indications: clearing away heat and detoxifying, removing phlegm and relieving cough, and relieving abdominal pain, etc. It likes a dark, humid, dry climate with long sunshine and low temperature. Licorice grows mostly in arid and semi-arid desert steppes, desert edges and loess hilly areas. The roots and rhizomes are used for medicinal purposes.

First of all, wolfberry is a multi-branched shrub of the genus Lycium in the Solanaceae family, 0.5-1 meter high, and can reach more than 2 meters when cultivated. Distributed both at home and abroad. The whole body of wolfberry is a treasure. Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty recorded in "Compendium of Materia Medica": "In spring, wolfberry leaves are picked, called Tianjingcao; in summer, flowers are picked, called Changshengcao; in autumn, fruits are picked, called wolfberry fruits; in winter, roots are picked, called Digupi". The young leaves of wolfberry are also called wolfberry heads and can be eaten or made into wolfberry tea. Modern research shows that wolfberry can lower blood sugar, resist fatty liver, and resist atherosclerosis. In addition, wolfberry can also be used in gardens as hedges, tree stump pots, and as a shrub for soil and water conservation.

Moreover, wolfberry has the following benefits: nourishing the liver and kidneys, improving sperm quality and improving eyesight. It is used for deficiency of essence, soreness of waist and knees, dizziness and tinnitus, internal heat and thirst, blood deficiency and sallow complexion, and blurred vision. Licorice: tonifies the spleen and replenishes Qi, clears away heat and detoxifies, removes phlegm and relieves cough, relieves urgency and stops pain, and harmonizes various medicines. It is used for spleen and stomach weakness, fatigue, palpitations and shortness of breath, cough with excessive sputum, cramps and pain in the abdomen and limbs, carbuncles and sores, and to relieve drug toxicity.

In the above article, we introduced what licorice is. Licorice is a common Chinese medicine. We can use licorice to make tea. In the above article, we used licorice and wolfberry to make tea, which can have a good health-care effect.