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Bot.: Lycium barbarum

Chinesische Wolfsbeere/Chinese wolfsberry

Other name: Matrimony vine
Chinese name: Gou-gi-zi(Gou Qi Zi)

Healing power:
- In traditional Chinese medicine Chinese wolfsberry is used to strengthen liver and kidney energy and for Yin and lack of blood syndromes.

- Chinese Wolfsberry strengthens liver functions,

- bones,

- muscles,

- increases white blood cell counts,

- improves vision,

- stimulates tissue development,

- lowers blood pressure,

- lowers blood sugar level,

- lowers cholesterol.

How to use:
The red,sweet berries are eaten raw or as snack or are added to soups and stews.
In Canton the Chinese eat the young leaves as cooked green vegetables.

Description of the plant:
Chinese wolfsberry grows perennial and can withstand frost. The plant reaches a height of 1,00 m and loves a sunny location in a normal soil.
Chinese wolfsberry belongs to the family of the solanaceae and is used in traditional Chinese medicine.
The taste belonging is sweet, the energy neutral. Chinese wolfsberry is responsible for the organs liver and kidney.

Propagation:
Sow the seeds from March to June indoors in flats at temperatures of about 15 °C to 25 °C. When frost is over transplant them into the garden. In the first year they need a well dunged soil.
I sowed Chinese wolfsberry on 9th March 2005. On 21th March the plants germinated.

chinesische Wolfsbeere: Samen Chinese wolfsberry: seeds