Benefits of Goji Juice - Medicinal and Culinary Uses
Benefits of Goji Juice: Improve 5 major health areas.
The history of the goji berry (also known as wolfberry, Himalayan goji berry, Tibetan goji berry among other things.) dates back at least 1,900 years. However, according to folk stories, China’s first emperor may have also used this fruit and he lived circa 2,300 BC.
Benefits of Goji Juice: Health
This plant has been used for almost two millennia by traditional Chinese medicine. There are five major areas that the goji berry is believed to be effective.
- It is supposed to be effective in straightening the immune system,
- It can improve eye sight,
- It is said to be able to protect the liver,
- It can aid with fertility by boosting sperm production
- It is said to be helpful with improving circulation
To gain the full benefit of the goji berry, one does not need to prepare it in any special way. It can be consumed fresh (however, outside of its native cultivating area it is rarely available in this form) and any which way you can get your hands on it: dried, ground up, as juice or wine, brewed into tea, etc.
However, the Chinese aren’t the only ones who are convinced of the beneficial effects of goji juice. It is also used extensively in Japanese and Tibetan natural medicine. As far as modern western medicine is concerned, however, none of these properties have been shown to be true in a clinical trial. This is at least what the article on wolfberry on Wikipedia says. On some of the other pages on the Internet, people stated that there have been tests on animals that seem to support the claim the Goji Juice Diabetes connection. The claims that goji may help with cancer have not at all been confirmed at the time of writing of this article.
Benefits of Goji Juice: Food
When consumed as food, goji berry is usually cooked. It has been known to be mixed in with rice, and cooked into the broth of soups. You can also make wine out of the berry, since it is sweet in nature, therefore readily lending itself to fermentation. The consumption of the fruit as food is also designed to reap the natural healing benefits of it, no doubt.
Some people also make beer out of it, a Belgian company makes ale out of it.
One must be careful about getting his or her goji berries form a trusted source. The standards for food safety in China are vastly different from that in the United States and other western countries. They can contain chemicals such as pesticides and fungicides and other harmful chemicals.
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