1. Strengthening spleen and nourishing stomach
Seabuckthorn contains a large number of amino acids, organic acids and other nutrients, which can promote the biosynthesis of gastric acid and stimulate the secretion of gastric juice, so it has the functions of digestion, spleen and stomach, soothing the liver and regulating qi. It has certain curative effect on dyspepsia, abdominal distension and abdominal pain, gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcer, enteritis and chronic constipation.
2. Eliminating phlegm and relieving cough
Seabuckthorn has the functions of relieving cough and asthma, benefiting lung and resolving phlegm in traditional medical theory, and has good curative effect on respiratory diseases such as chronic pharyngitis, bronchitis, asthma and cough with excessive phlegm, which is mainly related to the anti-inflammatory effect of flavonoids in seabuckthorn and the promotion of capillary blood circulation.
3. Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis
Seabuckthorn juice can promote hematopoietic cells, and its seabuckthorn seed oil can inhibit platelet aggregation by oral administration. At the same time, Chinese medicine also believes that Hippophae rhamnoides can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, which is suitable for traumatic injury, subcutaneous hemorrhage, irregular menstruation of women and so on.
Protect the liver
Organic acids such as malic acid and oxalic acid contained in seabuckthorn juice can reduce the toxicity of antibiotics and protect the liver. Lecithin and other phospholipid compounds in Hippophae rhamnoides L. are components with high biological activity, which can promote cell metabolism, improve liver function, and resist fatty liver and cirrhosis.
5. Protect the cardiovascular system
Seabuckthorn can reduce serum total cholesterol, increase serum high density lipoprotein cholesterol and liver total cholesterol, relieve angina pectoris, and has the effect of preventing and treating coronary heart disease.
6. Antioxidant activity
Seabuckthorn seed oil has a similar effect to vitamin E, which can protect vascular smooth muscle cells damaged by high-fat serum, obviously reduce the increase of lipid peroxide content in high-fat injured smooth muscle cells, obviously improve the activity of superoxide dismutase, reduce the damage of high-fat serum to cell membrane, protect and promote the healthy growth of cells, and has obvious antioxidant effect.
7. Adjust immunity
The bioactive components such as flavonoids of Hippophae rhamnoides L. have different degrees of regulating ability on many aspects of immune system, and have obvious regulating effect on humoral immunity.