For thousands of years, the Goji berry (Lycium fruit) has been known in Classical Chinese Medicine as an adaptogenic Jing tonic, with a neutral energy that tonifies the Blood, Kidney yin, Liver yin, and supports the Lungs.

One of the most famous healers in Chinese history, Li Shi-Zhen, in his Compendium of Materia Medica(1578), spoke of villagers in Northern China where many of the people lived to over 100 years of age.

Here’s what they did. They all habitually consumed Goji berries.

What is it about the Goji berry that makes it so interesting?

Where Classical Chinese Medicine has known these secrets for centuries, modern science is now catching up.

See our skin care bundle (which includes goji berry) here.

Goji berry has been known as an herbal tonic with benefits in these four areas:

Blood: Helps build healthy red blood cells

The Liver is responsible for the smooth flow of Qi and blood in your body.

It controls the volume and smooth flow of blood in your vessels and also stores the blood.

As a blood tonic, it gives your body the building blocks needed to create new, healthy red blood cells.

Research into Goji berry has found high levels of iron, a necessary component of red blood cells.

Along with it’s sesquiterpenoid contents, which have been shown to help you maintain healthy blood pressure, it also helps to alleviate menstruation problems associated with low blood volume.

Kidney Yin: Helps you live longer

For most people reaching 40 years of age, the decreasing Kidney Essence begins to impact their health.

Your Kidneys are the root of your body’s Yin (Water) and Yang (Fire). The daily stressors of life will deplete your Yin.

A deficiency in Kidney Yin reduces your ability to handle stress and results in symptoms like dryness, wrinkles, hair loss, and brittle bones.

Kidney Yin is responsible for your fluids which helps fight these issues by keeping your skin moisturized from the inside.

Science has discovered it increases the secretion of human growth hormone (HGH) by the pineal and pituitary glands in the brain.

Known as the master hormone, it’s responsible for maintaining the balance of all of your other hormones.

As you age, your production of HGH reduces drastically. A 70 year old has 1/10th the levels of a 20 year old.

Some of the polysaccharides in Goji berries protect against DNA mutations by increasing the blood serum levels of Superoxide Dismutase (known as the king of antioxidants).

And… it’s high zinc content also contributes to the building blocks for key proteins that repair DNA.

Liver Yin: Incredible for your eyes

The eyes are the sensory organ related to the Liver.

Research into Goji berry has found high levels of compounds beneficial to the eyes.

The carotenoids zeaxanthin (Goji berries are one of the world’s richest source of this antioxidant), lutein, and beta carotene are well known to help improve and repair the eyesight and damage to the retina.

The amino acid betaine, also in Lycium, increases choline production in the Liver, which helps with detoxification.

Lung Yin: Boost your immune system

The Lung’s major functions include maintaining healthy immune defenses against pathogens, as well as circulating Qi and fluids throughout the body.

Science discovered that physaline has immune boosting properties. Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is well known for immune boosting as well.

The benefits of Goji berry’s glycoconjugate polysaccharides is immunomodulation, meaning that they “re-educate” the immune system and keep it in balance to work better, permanently.

There’s different types of Goji Berries…
Which one packs the most benefits?

With over 100 species of Goji plants, the most nutrient dense version is Lycium barbarum, grown in specific mountainous regions of China.

It’s the only variety we include in our products.

These berries are only found in a handful of places worldwide and we select these from only the finest sources.

As you can imagine, they’re quite popular.

We included Goji berries (Lycium barbarum) in our Autumn Skin Support Combo to help support your skin this fall, but as you can see, there are so many other benefits to this longevity tonic.

Try some today and enjoy all the wonderful benefits this particular strain of berry has to offer.

Sincerely,
Jing Herbs