250g Premium Schisandra Dried Berries Wu Wei Zi Tonic Five Flavours Fruit 五味子

Premium Organic Schisandra Dried Berries Wu Wei Zi Tonic Five Flavours Fruit Product Description: Schisandra chinensis, Wu Wei Zi, literally "five flavor berry" is a deciduous woody vine native to forests of Northern China and the Russian Far East. Its Chinese name comes from the fact that its berries possess all five basic flavors: salty, sweet, sour, pungent (spicy), and bitter. Its berries are used in traditional Chinese medicine, where it is considered one of the 50 fundamental herbs. They are most often used in dried form, and boiled to make a tea. Medicinally it is used as a tonic and restorative adaptogen with notable clinically documented liver protecting effects. The primary hepatoprotective (liver protecting) and immuno-modulating constituents are the lignans schizandrin, deoxyschizandrin, gomisins, and pregomisin, which are found in the seeds of the fruit. In traditional Chinese medicine, Wu Wei Zi is believed to: 1. helps prevent liver damage; helps to metabolize drugs for