Chinese Wolfberry Root - bark

Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Ningxia, Gansu, Henan, Hebei.

Root bark is short and small tube-shaped or grooved, uneven size, often 3~10cm long, 0.6~1.5cm wide, about 3mm thick. Externally grayish-yellow or brownish-yellow, rough, with crossed longitudinal cracks, outer surface easily flakes off. Inner surface is yellowish-white, relatively smooth with thin longitudinal lines. Light and brittle texture, easily broken; fractured surface is not smooth; outer layer is brownish-yellow, inner layer is grayish white. faint odor; slightly sweet taste.

Superior medicinal material is large, thick, without woody core or foreign matter.

Sweet; cold.

Cools blood, eliminates steaming, clear the lung, downbears fire. Apply to yin deficiency and hectic fever, hectic fever and night sweat, dyspnea and coughing due to lung-heat, hematemesis, and non-traumatic hemorrhage.