Pinyin Name: Gou Qi Zi
English Name: Lycium Fruit, Matrimony Vine Fruit, Barbary Wolfberry
Properties: sweet, neutral
Channels Entered: Liver, Kidney, Lung

• Blurry vision
• Dizziness, diminished visual acuity, dryness or tearing with exposure to wind
• Soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees
• Nocturnal emissions, night sweating, tinnitus
• Impotence and nocturnal emissions from kidney yin and yang deficiencies
• Wasting and thirsting syndrome
• Sallow appearance, prematurely gray hair, insomnia, and frequent dreams
• Prematurely gray hair, loose teeth
• Steaming bones sensations
• Emaciation, spermatorrhea, impotence, dizziness, and blurred vision

• Chronic respiratory disorders with lung yin deficiencies including dry cough, without sputum or with scanty sputum, blood or blood streaks, steaming bones sensations and afternoon fevers
• Dry cough
• Hemopytsis

• Should be used with caution for patients who have diarrhea from spleen and stomach deficiencies
• Contraindicated for patients with excess or exterior conditions
• Should be used with caution during pregnancy, as it stimulates contraction of the uterus.