Wolfberry Bark (Digupi)

Wolfberry Bark (Digupi)

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.