Introduction: Goji berries are one of the common nourishing ingredients used in daily diets, offering excellent health benefits. During winter, a season highly effective for health and nourishment, you can try the following goji berry health recipes to supplement nutrition and boost your body's immunity.
Goji berries, along with Reishi mushroom, Changbai Mountain ginseng, and Ejiao, are known as the Four Treasures of Traditional Chinese Medicine. They are one of the most common nourishing herbs and a frequently used ingredient in traditional Chinese health-preserving food therapy. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that goji berries nourish the liver, benefit the kidneys, and moisten the lungs. Goji berry leaves can also tonify deficiency, benefit essence, clear heat, and improve eyesight. Modern medical research has shown that goji berries contain betaine, atropine, and hyoscyamine, which are beneficial for enhancing immunity, anti-aging, anti-tumor, liver protection, and preventing fatty liver. Nutrition experts suggest that chewing dry goji berries has excellent health benefits, and when paired with other important ingredients, they can have a synergistic effect.
Lily and Goji Berry Pear Cups
Goji + Rehmannia Root
Rehmannia root is sweet in taste and slightly warm in nature, with effects such as nourishing yin and blood, and benefiting essence and marrow. It is primarily indicated for symptoms like liver and kidney yin deficiency, soreness in the lower back and knees, tidal fever from bone-steaming, night sweats and spermatorrhea, internal heat and thirst, sallow complexion due to blood deficiency, palpitations, irregular menstruation, dizziness, tinnitus, and premature graying of hair. When paired with goji berries, it can be used to treat lower back and knee soreness, irregular menstruation, spermatorrhea, and premature aging caused by liver and kidney yin deficiency. It can also alleviate dizziness, tinnitus, and blurred vision caused by insufficient liver and kidney essence and blood.
Rehmannia Root and White Wine Cup
Ingredients: 120g Rehmannia root, 60g goji berries, 2g sandalwood, 1.5L white wine
Method: Grind the Rehmannia root, goji berries, and sandalwood into a powder. Place it in a white cloth bag and soak it in the white wine. After 14 days, it can be opened and consumed.
Goji + Ophiopogon Root
Ophiopogon root's functions include moistening the lungs and clearing the heart, purging heat and generating fluids, transforming phlegm and stopping vomiting, and treating coughs and promoting urination. The "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" (The Divine Farmer's Materia Medica Classic) classifies Ophiopogon root as a superior herb for nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, stating that "long-term use makes the body light, prevents aging, and staves off hunger." It also promotes the functional recovery of pancreatic islet cells, increases liver glycogen, and lowers blood sugar, making it very suitable for diabetic patients. When paired with goji berries, they can nourish the kidneys and yin, alleviating symptoms caused by yin damage from febrile diseases and yin deficiency with dry lungs.
Ophiopogon and Goji Berry Tea
Ingredients: 10g goji berries, 10g Ophiopogon root, 5g safflower
Method: Place the three ingredients in a cup, steep with boiling water, drink one dose daily as a frequent tea substitute.
Goji and Walnut Porridge
Goji + Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum has the effects of dispelling wind-heat, pacifying the liver, and improving eyesight. It can alleviate symptoms of "heatiness," enhance the resistance of capillaries, and in vitro, it shows certain inhibitory effects on *Staphylococcus aureus*, Beta-hemolytic streptococcus, and *Salmonella typhi*. When experiencing "heatiness," chrysanthemum and goji berry tea can clear the liver and improve eyesight, clear heat and purge fire, lower lipids and blood pressure, moisten the intestines and detoxify, and relieve dry eyes and eye fatigue.
Chrysanthemum and Goji Berry Tea
Ingredients: 10g Hangzhou white chrysanthemum, 10g goji berries
Method: Add both ingredients to a teapot, add hot water, and it can be consumed after 10 minutes.
Goji and Chrysanthemum Tea