Pharmaceutical Name:

Cortex Lycii

Botanical Name:

Lycium chinensis Mill.
Lycium barbarum L.

Common Name:

Wolfberry Bark
Lycium Bark

Source of Earliest Record:

Shennong Bencao Jing

Part Used & Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations:

The roots are dug in spring or autumn.  The bark is peeled off the roots, dried in the sun and cut into pieces.

Properties and Taste:

Sweet or tasteless and cold

Meridian:

Lung and kidney

Functions:

To cool blood
To clear heat in the lungs

Indications and Combinations:

1.     Heat in the blood and deficient yin manifested as afternoon fever and night sweating.
*Use with Anemarrhena rhizome (Zhimu) and Turtle shell (Biejia).

2.      Heat in the lungs and deficient yin manifested as cough, asthma and cough with blood.
*Use with Imperata rhizome (Baimaogen) and Biota tops (Cebaiye) .

Dosage:

6-15 g

Cautions:

This herb is contraindicated in cases with fever due to common cold or weakness of the spleen accompanied by diarrhea.