Seabuckthorn and Lycium barbarum look very similar, its vitality is very tenacious, and the fruit can also be made into juice to drink, which tastes very delicious and sweet. Similar to Lycium barbarum and eggplant, the fruit can be eaten in small quantities, but the leaves are inedible and toxic. The fruit and leaves of Lycium barbarum can be eaten.
Seabuckthorn is the dried and mature fruit of Hippophae rhamnoides of Elaeagnaceae. Seabuckthorn tastes sour and mild. Return to stomach meridian, spleen meridian, heart meridian and lung meridian. Flavonoids are the main active components of seabuckthorn.
People's Republic of China (PRC) Pharmacopoeia (version 20 15) stipulates that the content of total flavonoids (calculated as rutin) in dried seabuckthorn should not be lower than1.5%; The content of isorhamnetin shall not be less than 0. 10%.
Efficacy and function
1, Hippophae rhamnoides has the effects of invigorating spleen, promoting digestion, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.
2. Modern research shows that Hippophae rhamnoides can also resist oxidation, liver injury, gastric ulcer and blood sugar.
3. Seabuckthorn can treat abdominal pain due to food stagnation, anorexia due to spleen deficiency, chest obstruction and heartache, cough with excessive phlegm, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, traumatic injury and swelling and pain.