Video: Herbs in Chinese Medicine: Gou Qi Zi

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Gou Qi Zi is a traditional herb used for nourishing the blood in Chinese medicine. Learn more about Gou Qi Zi and how it may be useful for you from a registered herbalist in this free alternative medicine video.

Video Transcript

I want to take a moment to talk about the uses of some of our Chinese herbs, especially the ones that can be safely used on your own. This particular herb is known as Gou Qi Zi, also known as Goji berry sometimes and it's the Chinese wolf berry, a little more commonly used name. This particular herb is often times used to nourish the blood, but in particular, it has a special use for the eyes, and so, we use this one when people have eye problems. My own mother, for instance, has dry macular degeneration and I've been able to reverse that with accupunture, some other Chinese herbs and some western nutraceuticals, but in particular, I have her eat about two tablespoons of the Gou Qi Zi every day. So she adds it into her cereal or sometimes she just likes to snack on a few of them. So they're an enjoyable, safe thing to eat, don't eat them to excess, but we can take those just as we would any fruit that we think has got benefit for us. So, enjoy some Gou Qi Zi. You can tonify your blood and benefit your eyes just by snacking on a little bit of this wolf berry.

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Herbs in Chinese Medicine: Gou Qi Zi

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