Licorice can clear heat and detoxify the body, stop coughing and dissolve phlegm. Wolfberry can benefit the essence of the eyes, nourish the liver and kidney, and is quite rich in nutrients. Some people like to put one or two wolfberries or licorice when making tea, so can licorice and wolfberries together in water?
Can licorice and wolfberry together with water to drink?
Licorice can be brewed with wolfberry to drink.
Licorice is sweet and calm, tonic and beneficial, ease the pain, stop coughing and moisten the lungs; wolfberry is calm, nourishing the liver and kidneys, and licorice is not mutually exclusive, and licorice can also harmonize the medicine, so licorice can be drunk with wolfberry.
Licorice and wolfberry together what are the benefits of drinking water
eyesight
Licorice for the spleen and stomach, wolfberry for the liver and kidneys. Chinese wolfberry is rich in vitamin A, can promote the synthesis of the retina on the purple red quality, play the role of liver bright eyes. And wolfberry is rich in B a carotene can be converted into vitamin A in the body, and vitamin A can generate retinol, thus improving vision and preventing macular disease. Licorice drink wolfberry together with water to drink has the effect of brightening the eyes.
Anti-cancer
The secondary acid contained in licorice can block the effect of carcinogens inducing tumor growth; the wolfberry polysaccharide contained in wolfberry is not only a biological response regulator that regulates immune response, but also can play an anti-cancer role through the neuro-endocrine-immune regulatory network, and the anti-cancer effect is stronger when licorice and wolfberry drink water together.
Enhance immune system
Licorice also has anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic effects, and can protect the inflamed throat and tracheal mucosa; wolfberry is rich in wolfberry polysaccharide, which is a water-soluble polysaccharide with physiological activity and can enhance non-specific immune function and improve disease resistance, so licorice and wolfberry together in water can enhance immunity and improve disease resistance.
How to make licorice and wolfberry tea
Ingredients: 5 grams of licorice, 10 grams of wolfberry.
Practice: Wash the prepared licorice and wolfberry and soak them in warm water for some time. Pour the two together with warm water into a pot, together in a slow boil for a few minutes until the water boils.
Efficacy:Replenishes qi and blood and enhances immunity.
Long-term drinking licorice wolfberry tea what harm
1, licorice can reduce the level of testosterone in men's blood, so long-term drinking licorice wolfberry tea may lead to impotence, testicular and penile atrophy.
2, licorice has trace toxicity, long-term drinking will cause water and sodium retention in the body, may lead to edema, increased blood pressure and other symptoms.
Licorice and wolfberry drink water precautions
1, licorice and wolfberry together with water to drink, warming effect is strong, is a cold and fever, diarrhea, people better not drink, otherwise it will make the condition worse.
2, pregnant women should not drink too much licorice wolfberry tea, overdose of licorice can easily lead to increased blood pressure, and wolfberry has the effect of blood, excessive drinking licorice wolfberry tea may appear premature.
