Description

Product Review：Our seabuckthorn  seed originates from Zhangxian county which is the main place of natural and wild seabuckthorn in China.

Product Details：Seeds obliquely ovate, ca. 4 mm long and ca. 2 mm wide; surface brown, lustrous, longitudinally canaliculated (single) in the middle; testa solid, kernel milky-white, oily. Odour, slight; taste, acerb; nature, warm.

Seabuckthorn with seed oil 10% -12% and pulp oil 14% -18% is a very good raw material for extracting seabuckthorn oil.

Functions：The seed has fatty acids, such as palmitic acid, stearic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid, linolenic acid. Non-saponified substances include zeaxanthin, cryptoxanthin, alpha-, gamma-, and δ-carotenes, sitosterol, β-sitosterol can-of β -D-glucoside, and phosphatide. The peel has serotonin and glucofrangulin. The leaf has ascorbic acid, dehydroascorbic acid, isorhamnetin, and carotene. The root bark has alkaloids, and the root nodule contains hemin.

1. In medicine, it can be used as drug, in soup, and as fine powders for drink

The medicinal value for sea-buckthorn seeds: Sea-buckthorn seed contains vitamins A, C, F, B1, B2, B12, K, folic acid, flavonoids, proteins, many amino acids, fat, fatty acids, saccharides, minerals, and trace elements. It can enhance the phagocytosis of macrophage, promote humoral and cellular immunities, have distinct antitumor activity, resist myocardial anoxia, increase myocardial blood flow, improve myocardial microcirculation, reduce myocardial oxygen consumption, resist arrhythmia, dilate blood vessels, promote hematopoietic function, lower the blood fat, resist ulcer, stimulate the gastrointestinal movement, promote the gastrointestinal glandular secretion, and play anti-radiation, anti-inflammatory and wound-curing roles.

Sea-buckthorn seed is acerb in taste, warm in nature. It can nourish yin and promote fluid production; relieve cough and reduce sputum; and promote blood circulation for removing blood stasis. It is indicated for thirst caused by the impairment of yin, cough with phlegm, amenorrhea caused by static blood, coronary heart disease, hyperlipemia, tumors, etc.

2. In plantation, it can act as a barbed fence, a parapet or a potted plant

[DESCRIPTION] Fruit oblatoid or compressed globose, some multiply adhesive, each 5-8 mm in diameter. Surface orange-yellow or brownish red, corrugativus; base with short and small fruit stem or fruit stem scar, and apex with remnant styles. Pulp oleosus, soft in texture. Seeds obliquely ovate, ca. 4 mm long and ca. 2 mm wide; surface brown, lustrous, longitudinally canaliculated (single) in the middle; testa solid, kernel milky-white, oily. Odour, slight; taste, acerb; nature, warm.

[PLANT MORPHOLOGY] Deciduous shrub or tree, 5-10 m tall, with robust thorns. Sprout densely covered with rusty scales. Leaves alternate, linear or linear-lanceolate, blunt at both ends, densely covered with pale white scales inferiorly; petiole very short. Flowers that bloom before the leaves grow, dioecious; short raceme axillary in the branch of the first year; flowers small, yellowish. Male flowers: floral envelope bifid, with 4 stamens. Female flowers: floral envelope tubular, apex bifid. Fruit surrounded by fleshy perianth tube, subglobose, orange-yellow. Fl. Sept-Oct. River banks, alps and grasslands.

[PLACE OF ORIGIN] Zhangxian, Gansu.