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. |