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Sea buckthorn efficacy and effect contraindication

Sea buckthorn is a kind of delicious berry with tender yellow color, and it is the fruit of the plant which is used for both medicine and food. It is also the favorite of many women. It is the fruit of sea buckthorn, which is ripe in the fall of every year, and after ripening, it tastes sweet and sour, and the flesh is tender and delicious. So what are the effects and contraindications of sea buckthorn? Let's take a look.

Effects and functions of sea buckthorn

1. Prevention and treatment of liver disease

Sea buckthorn is able to fight against the attack of peroxidized free radicals, protect the membrane of liver cells, and have obvious repair effect on drug-induced liver damage, and fight against the elevation of liver MDA content.

2. Resolving phlegm and relieving cough

Sea buckthorn has the effect of relieving cough and asthma, facilitating the lungs and resolving phlegm in traditional medical theory, and it has a very good effect on respiratory diseases such as chronic pharyngitis, bronchitis, asthma, cough and phlegm, which is mainly related to the anti-inflammatory effect of the flavonoids in sea buckthorn and its effect of promoting the blood circulation of the capillaries.

3. Maintaining the health of human blood vessels

Sea buckthorn contains a variety of active ingredients that can purify the blood after being absorbed by the human body, which can clean up cholesterol and triglyceride in the blood and reduce the number of HDL, which can maintain the stability of cardiovascular function in human beings, and reduce the incidence of heart disease and coronary artery atherosclerosis.

4. Brain health and intelligence

Sea buckthorn contains a variety of amino acids, vitamins, trace elements, unsaturated fatty acids, which have a very good effect on the intellectual development and physical growth of children.

5. Anti-aging, improve immunity

The active ingredient superoxide dismutase (SOD) in sea buckthorn has the function of scavenging free radicals in the body, and at the same time, it can enhance the function of the immune system and regulate the immune-active cells, and it is a kind of effective immune modulator, which has a significant effect on improving the human body's resistance to diseases and slowing down the aging process. It is an effective immunomodulator, which has a significant effect on improving the body's ability to resist disease and delaying aging.

6. Appetizing and digestion

There are some natural bone acids in sea buckthorn that can promote the secretion of digestive juices and accelerate the decomposition of food, which has a certain effect on the spleen and stomach and dyspepsia that often occurs in human beings, and it can also eliminate Helicobacter pylori bacteria in the body, preventing the occurrence of gastritis and gastric ulcers, and many other high-frequency diseases.

These are the most important of all.

7. Activate blood circulation and disperse silt

The juice of sea buckthorn fruit has a promotion effect on hematopoietic cells, and its sea buckthorn seed oil has an inhibitory effect on the aggregation of platelets when it is taken orally, and the Chinese medicine practitioners also think that sea buckthorn can activate blood circulation and disperse silt, and it is suitable for the bruise, subcutaneous hemorrhage, and the female menstruation irregularity with a certain regulating effect.

Taboos of sea buckthorn

If your body is warm and hot, you should not consume sea buckthorn; when we consume sea buckthorn, we should eat it in moderation, if we consume too much of it, it is easy to have side effects, and sea buckthorn can't be eaten with greasy and spicy food, which will reduce the nutritional value of sea buckthorn, and sea buckthorn is better not to be eaten with Chinese herbs.