“Taking nutritious leaves in spring, to low blood pressure and prevent aging, drinking goji berry bud tea forever, to nourish our lung with a magic power. ”The folk song circulates in Ningxia, China explains the effectiveness of goji berry tea and eating methods. Scientific tests showed that goji berry bud tea is rich in 8 kinds of amino acids and minerals and contains trace elements of carotene, riboflavin, ascorbic acid and calcium, iron, zinc, selenium and so on. Goji berry was also named as “nutritious leaves from heaven and earth” in Compendium of Materia Medica, which means it has absorbed the essence of heaven and earth.
Improving sleep, reducing blood pressure and relaxing bowel are three significant effect of goji berry, the followings are the explanation about its functions and nutrition.
- The relationship between the high content of plant flavonoids and the decrease of blood pressure and blood lipid.
- Studies have shown that the intake of the plant flavonoids from goji berry can effectively reduce blood pressure, so goji berry tea has an obvious effect on reducing blood pressure.
- A large content of selenium in goji berry without any exciting material like theophylline can help people sleep, which is one of the main differences between goji berry bud tea and other ordinary tea.
- To clear heat and detoxify, beautify and relax bowel.
- Keep on drinking can clear toxins in the body, especially the face, which can help people beauty themselves and cure constipation. Goji berry bud is a excellent remover of active oxygen and lipid antioxidant, for example, for the singlet oxygen anion (O2ō) and hydroxyl radical (HO -) the maximum removal rate is up to 98% and 99%. Because of its strong ability to scavenge free radicals and antioxidation, play a goji berry bud play a good role in human body and retard the aging for people. Furthermore, adding sugar when drinking will give better results on relaxing bowel, clearing heat and moistening lung, and reliving sore throat. It will taste better with a little honey.
- Abundant iron and zinc can enhance body’s immune function and enrich the blood. Iron in goji berry is next only to it in hair weed, mushroom, and laver, and it is an effective component of the blood. Zinc is also very rich in goji berry, all these elements have ability to improve the immune function and enhance human disease resistance.
- The relationship between rich VE, VA and eyesight, cancer prevention.
- Carotene is very high in goji berry bud, even more than doubled in the fresh carrot. Carotene in the human body can be converted into VA, VA is a kind of important nutrient to maintain the visual and the health of epithelial tissue, which can also improve the eyesight. Meanwhile, VA has a certain inhibitory effect on tumour.
- Plant milk and tonic
- The carotene in goji berry bud is more than doubled in the fresh carrot. The content of VE is 51.34mg/100g, and is twice as much as it in plant oil. Goji berry bud tea is rich in niacin, ascorbic acid, thiamine acid, riboflavin, flavonoids and so on. Furthermore it is as nutritious as milk, even over the milk. Goji berry is compared to milk, which means drinking goji berry bud tea is like drinking milk. Japanese pharmaceutists deem that there are a lot of benefits for nourishing to drink the goji berry bud tea.
- Antitumor effect
- The synthesis of nitrite can be blocked by the polyphenols, therefore, drinking goji berry bud tea is helpful to inhibit cell growth, kill the tumor cells, and improve the immune system with tumor cells.
- To resist fatigue, inhibit the rise of blood glucose and prevent tooth decay.
