The famed Li Qing Yuen, whom legend has it popularized both Goji berries and Ginseng, and is said to have lived to the age of 252 (1678-1930), Consumed goji berries daily. The life of Li Qing Yuen is the most documented case of extreme longevity known. The legend of Li Qing Yuen says that when he was eleven years old he met three Taoist sages who were purported to be over three hundred years old. They taught Li about spring water and the science and fine art of longevity, proper diet and herbalism. Later in his life, at the age of fifty, he was said to have met another Taoist sage who told Li he was five hundred years old. When Li inquired about the secret of his extreme longevity, the sage taught him to consume a goji berry soup each day.
Li Qing Yuen is said to have given a lecture at the University of Beijing at the age of two hundred. When the emperor of China discovered such a long-lived person within the empire, he invited Li to the royal court. Within a few months of living in Beijing, Li Qing Yuen was dead, apparently either from eating the processed food provided by the royal kitchen or from exposure to the toxicity of the city. Even if Li Qing Yuen's longevity is just a myth, it does demonstrate a recognized relationship in the culture between the goji berry and longevity. By the way, as far as I have been able to discover/uncover from studying Li Qing Yuen, his daily tea consisted of Goji berries, Ginseng, and Reishi mushrooms. You can make this tea at home and it is delightful. The famed elixir of longevity in Chinese medicine is supposed to have consisted of goji berries and flowers picked in spring, leaves picked in the spring or summer, and the root picked in autumn. All of these mixed together into a super tonic were said to keep one young indefinitely. Goji berries are also grown in Tibet and have been recognized by the Tibetan School of Medicine in Lhasa as a superfood for twenty-five hundred years.
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