There are some Chinese cookbooks that include a few recipes using wolfberries, but there is no other book with more than 100
wolfberry recipes, including, drinks, salads, main dishes, muffins and desserts.
The main products of Ningxia
Wolfberry are fruit leaf pollen and flower.
Based on the original Huangjingzanyu capsules, the Huangjingzanyu optimized formula is composed of five herbs: Rhizoma polygonati, tuber fleeceflower root,
wolfberry, red sage root, and dandelion.
Modern pharmacological studies suggest that catalpol, Rehmannia glutinosa oligosaccharides and stachyose in Rehmannia has hypoglycemic effect [11-13]; doctors often use yam to treat XiaoKeBing; diosgenin and mannan in yam has hypoglycemic effect [14, 15];
wolfberry polysaccharide in medlar has hypoglycemic effect [16]; ursolic acid in Cornus has hypoglycemic effect [17]; Chuanniuxi, dodder, deer adhesive, and glue of tortoise plastron have hypoglycemic effect.
The research, led by scientists at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University, suggested the
wolfberry may increase the activity of dendritic cells, which play an important role in the ability of the immune system to defend against viral infections.
Touted for delivering a "postexercise" glow, the complex combines a blend of bio-converted pomegranate and antioxidant-rich super berries (bio-fermented cranberry, blueberry and
wolfberry) to detoxify irritants and neutralize free radicals.
(29.) Raymond Chuen-Chung Chang1,2,3, Yuen-Shan Ho1, Man-Shan Yu1 and Kwok-Fai So1,2,3: Medicinal and nutraceutical uses of
wolfberry in preventing neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease.
Also known as
wolfberry in its native Europe, the goji plant is found in much of Asia, where it appears in exotic (to Westerners) Tibetan and Himalayan descriptions.