Goji Berry is the ripe fruit of Lycium barbarum L., a plant of the nightshade family. Goji berry is a treasure all over, its fruit, leaves, flowers and root bark are excellent herbal tonics. Goji berry is very rich in nutritional ingredients. Each hectogram of Goji fruit contains 4.49 grams of crude protein, 2.33 grams of crude fat, 9.12 grams of carbohydrates, 96 mg of carotenoids, 0.053 mg of thiamine, and 0.137 mg of riboflavin. , Ascorbic acid 19.8 mg, betaine 0.26 mg, also rich in potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, manganese, zinc and other elements, as well as 22 kinds of amino acids and vitamins.

Goji berry is sweet and flat in nature and belongs to the liver and kidney meridians. It has the effect of nourishing the liver and kidney, nourishing the liver and improving eyesight. Modern medical research shows that it contains carotene, betaine, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C and calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc., which has the pharmacological effect of increasing the activity of white blood cells and promoting the regeneration of liver cells. Immune function, tumor inhibition, hypoglycemic, hypolipidemic, anti-fatigue and other functional effects.

  • What are the benefits of Goji powder?

Goji berry powder is obtained by using natural Goji through low temperature baking, curing, and powder processing. Goji berry powder will not affect the effect, but can increase absorption and promote digestion. The role of Goji powder is as follows:

  1. It can improve immune function and enhance the body’s ability to adapt to various harmful stimuli;
  2. It can inhibit the generation and spread of cancer cells;
  3. It can improve eyesight;
  4. It increases human energy and has anti-fatigue effect;
  5. It improves brain function and enhances learning and memory;
  6. It can prevent symptoms such as hypoxia, colds, blood loss;
  7. It enhances the body’s hematopoietic function by promoting the reproduction of hematopoietic cells and increasing the white blood cell count;
  8. Effectively enhance the functions of various organs, improve brain function, resist free radicals as antioxidants, and delay aging;
  9. It can significantly lower serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels, reduce and prevent arteriosclerosis and hypertension;
  10. It can relieve allergy symptoms such as gastrointestinal bleeding and joint pain. And this effect is achieved by regulating endocrine;
  11. It protects the liver and nourishes the kidneys by inhibiting the deposition of fat in liver cells and promoting the regeneration of liver cells;
  12. The guanidine derivatives it contains can lower blood sugar. So it can be used as a health product for diabetics;
  13. Goji berry tea helps to lose weight.
  • What are the contraindications of Goji powder?
  1. Goji berrypowder should not be mixed with green tea. It is suitable for brewing with Gongju, honeysuckle, fat sea and rock sugar. It is especially suitable for computer people who use too much eyes.
  2. AlthoughGojipowder has good nourishing and therapeutic effects, it is not suitable for all people. Since it has a very strong effect on warming the body, it is best not to eat it for people who are suffering from a cold, fever, inflammation and diarrhea.
  3. Those with exogenous pathogenic heat, spleen deficiency with dampness and diarrhea should not take it.
  • What are the applications of Goji?

Goji berry also enjoys great popularity all over the world, and people make it into goji tea, goji wine, goji biscuits, beverages, desserts, goji berry extract, eye cream, essential oils, facial masks, face creams, smoothies, jams , jellies, muffins, supplements, tablets, etc.

  • What is Goji Extract?

Light brown powder extracted from the ripe fruit of the dicotyledonous herb Solanaceae or Lycium barbarum Ningxia. With immune regulation, hypoglycemic, hypolipidemic, anti-aging, anti-fatigue and so on. Lycium barbarum oil is rich in linoleic acid, linolenic acid, oleic acid, vitamin E, carotene and other biologically active substances, which can reduce vascular cholesterol, prevent atherosclerosis, enhance vision, prevent glaucoma, whitening, moisturizing, skin care , reduce pigment and other effects.

  • What are the Goji extract health benefits?
  1. Immunomodulatory function A number of studies have shown that Goji berrypolysaccharide, the active ingredient of Goji berryextract, can improve the immune function of T cell antigens, so it can selectively enhance the immune response of T cells; it can significantly improve the phagocytic percentage and phagocytic index of human phagocytes ; Can significantly improve serum lysozyme activity.
  2. Anti-aging contains a variety of free radical scavengers, such as Goji berrypolysaccharide, vitamin C, E, β-carotene, etc., which have anti-oxidative aging: modern aging theory believes that the aging process is the main reason for the degradation of the body’s immune function It is because the thymus gland shrinks with age, and the thymus gland is the main link of aging. Goji berrypolysaccharide can promote the increase in the number of mature thymocytes in the human body, thereby reversing the degeneration of the aging thymus; Goji berry polysaccharide can also enhance the hematopoietic function of bone marrow and resist hematopoietic function. senescence.
  3. Anti-mutation and anti-tumor, maintaining cell health can prevent and reduce the canceration of somatic cells, and promote the normal development and growth of human reproductive and embryonic cells; it can significantly increase the number of white blood cells, and has the effect of defense and blocking mutagenesis. Promote the proliferation of pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells and maintain chemotherapy. The observation of cell culture in vitro showed that it had obvious inhibitory effect on human gastric adenocarcinoma and cervical cancer cells, and the inhibition rate was 91.8% and 82.6% reported in the literature.
  4. Protect the liver The betaine contained in it can act as a methyl donor, protect the liver from harmful chemicals, and resist the peroxidative deposition of liver lipids. Long-term feeding of feed containing Goji berrywater extract to rats has protective effect on liver damage caused by CCL4, can inhibit the lipid changes in serum and liver caused by CCL4, and reduce aspartate aminotransferase.
  5. Hypoglycemic and hypolipidemic studies have shown thatGojiextract can improve carbohydrate tolerance and have obvious hypoglycemic effects; it can reduce serum and intrahepatic total cholesterol, triglycerides and low-density lipoprotein, suggesting thatGojifruit It has a certain preventive effect on fatty liver, and can prevent atherosclerosis and prevent the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
  6. Anti-fatigue and recovery of physical strength Goji berryextract has the effect of enhancing lung capacity, which can effectively prolong the survival time of animals under hypoxia and radiation conditions.
  • What is Goji berry polysaccharide?

Goji berry polysaccharide is an active ingredient in Goji berry extract, which can promote immune functions such as T, B, CTL, NK and macrophages, and promote the production of cytokines such as IL-2, IL-3 and TNFβ. It can enhance the immune function of tumor-bearing, chemotherapy and radiation-injured mice and regulate the neuroendocrine immune modulation (NIM) network. It has various effects of regulating immunity and delaying aging.

  • What are the benefits of Goji polysaccharide?
  1. Reproductive system protection function

The protective mechanism of Goji berry polysaccharide on rat reproductive system may be achieved through its antioxidant effect. Goji berry polysaccharide can prolong the apoptosis time of heat-damaged mouse seminiferous epithelial cells in vitro, inhibit the expression of UV-induced lipid peroxidase and free radical-induced cytochrome C, and can also reduce the breakage of testis cells in mice Oxidation of DNA. Goji berry polysaccharide can significantly increase serum sex hormone levels and SOD activity in rats, and reduce MDA levels. Goji berry polysaccharide can reduce the damage of spermatogenic cells caused by high temperature and H2O2, and promote the normal development of testicular germ cells. It is realized by the thalamus, pituitary, and gonadal axis, and has the function of repairing and protecting the chromosomes of spermatogenic cells after injury.

  1. Antioxidant and anti-aging

The accumulation of oxidative stress will promote the aging process, and the anti-aging experiments of Goji berry polysaccharide mostly use free radicals as toxin carriers. The antioxidant function of Goji berry polysaccharide has been confirmed in a large number of in vitro experiments. It has been reported that Goji berry polysaccharides exhibit antioxidant capacity in various antioxidant systems in vitro.

  1. Immunomodulatory effects

Goji berry polysaccharide affects immune regulation in various ways. The crude polysaccharide was further separated and purified by ion exchange chromatography to obtain a proteoglycan complex Goji berry polysaccharide 3p, which has an immune stimulating effect. Goji berry polysaccharide 3p can increase the expression of IL-2 and TNF in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells, and both mRNA and protein levels are dose-related with Goji berry polysaccharide, indicating that it has enhanced immunity and potential anti-tumor effects.

  1. Anti-tumor effect

Goji berry polysaccharide can inhibit the growth of various tumors, and its mechanism of action is different. Some people think that Goji berry polysaccharide can achieve the purpose of anti-tumor by activating the body’s immune system, but there is still lack of reliable evidence for its inhibitory effect on tumors. Goji berry polysaccharide 3p significantly inhibits the growth of S180 sarcoma by increasing immunity and reducing lipid peroxidation. There are also data that the antitumor effect of Goji berry polysaccharide is related to the regulation of calcium ion concentration.

  1. Regulate blood lipids and lower blood sugar

Studies have found that Goji berry polysaccharide can reduce blood sugar and serum MDA and nitric oxide levels in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) rats, significantly increase serum SOD content, and reduce DNA damage in peripheral lymphocytes. Goji berry polysaccharide can reduce the levels of blood glucose and blood lipids in alloxan-induced diabetic rabbits, and reduce the levels of blood lipids and blood glucose in high-fat diet-fed rats. Goji berry polysaccharide at 20~50mgkg-1 has the effect of protecting liver and kidney tissue in streptozotocin-induced diabetes, indicating that Goji berry polysaccharide is a good hypoglycemic substance.

  1. Anti-radiation effect

Goji berry polysaccharide can promote the recovery of peripheral blood in mice with bone marrow suppression caused by X-ray and carboplatin chemotherapy, and can stimulate human peripheral blood mononuclear cells to produce recombinant granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF). Goji berry polysaccharide can reduce this damage, significantly improve the loss of mitochondrial sulfhydryl protein and the inactivation of SOD, catalase and GSHPx in liver cells caused by radiation, and its anti-radiation function is more obvious than tocopherol.

  1. Neuroprotective effects

Goji berry extract can play a neuroprotective effect by resisting neuronal endoplasmic reticulum stress levels, and Goji berry polysaccharide has a protective effect on neurotoxicity caused by amyloid peptides. Goji berry polysaccharide can prevent nerve cell apoptosis by reducing the secretion of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and inhibiting the activity of amyloid peptide protease, reducing the phosphorylation of c-junk amino-terminal kinase (JNK), and reducing RNA-dependent protein kinase. (PKR) phosphorylation, thereby playing a neuroprotective role, may play a role in the occurrence of Alzheimer’s disease. Human aging is mainly caused by cell oxidation. Goji berry polysaccharide can directly scavenge hydroxyl radicals in vitro and inhibit the spontaneous or lipid peroxidation caused by hydroxyl radicals. Oral administration of Goji berry polysaccharide can increase the activities of glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) in D-galactose-induced aging mice, thereby scavenging excess free radicals and delaying aging effect.

  1. Anti-cancer effect

The biological effects of Goji berry on cancer cells were observed by cell culture in vitro, which proved that Goji berry had obvious inhibitory effect on human gastric adenocarcinoma KATO-I cells and human cervical cancer Hela cells. Goji berry polysaccharide in the treatment of 20 cases of primary liver cancer showed that it can improve symptoms and immunocompromised conditions and prolong survival. Goji berry polysaccharide has a regulatory effect on the antitumor activity of LAK cells in mice.

  • What are the precautions?

It should be noted that although taking Goji berry polysaccharide does not have any side effects, please use it with caution if you have the following symptoms:

  1. If people with deficiency of spleen and stomach eatGoji, it will cause diarrhea,

If you want to take it for a long time, you can take Spleen-Invigorating Pill while reducing the amount of food you eat.

  1. Please eat less or not when you have a cold, fever, inflammation in the body, or patients with spleen and stomach deficiency and diarrhea symptoms.

 

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