First, the health effect
1. Protect cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases: The content of total flavonoids extracted from Hippophae rhamnoides is high, which can effectively lower blood pressure, scavenge free radicals, reduce blood viscosity, inhibit excessive platelet aggregation, soften blood vessels, improve blood circulation, prevent arteriosclerosis, thus improving cardiovascular and cerebrovascular conditions and protecting health.
2, enhance the immune system: because it contains a lot of antioxidant substances such as vitamin C and carotenoids, it can enhance humoral immunity and cellular immunity, and has a certain anti-allergic effect. In addition, seabuckthorn flavonoids can also regulate thyroid function.
3. Prevention of cancer: Among them are anthocyanins, picroside, coumarin, β-carotene, etc. It has anti-cancer biological activity and has a certain inhibitory effect on cancer cells in human body. Among them, it has obvious curative effect on digestive system cancers such as gastric cancer and esophageal cancer.
4. Protect the respiratory system: Chinese medicine believes that it has the effects of relieving cough and asthma, resolving phlegm and moistening the lungs, and has a good effect on respiratory diseases such as cough, asthma, bronchitis and chronic pharyngitis.
Second, the ecological effect.
1. Vegetation restoration: Seabuckthorn is drought-resistant and cold-resistant, and can survive in barren land. It is easy to plant small plants, so planting in wasteland can quickly restore vegetation.
2. Reduce sediment: In places with serious soil erosion, such as the Loess Plateau, planting seabuckthorn can reduce soil erosion and fix soil. Because of its developed root system and dense shrubs, it is mostly used for water and soil consolidation in places with many gullies.
3. Landscaping: It is an excellent tree species for preventing wind and fixing sand and maintaining soil and water, so it is often used to plant on sandy soil, improve the land and play an aesthetic role in greening.