Hippophae rhamnoides

Chinese Name: Seabuckthorn

[category]: fruits

Seabuckthorn fruit

[alias]: Elaeagnus angustifolia, Salix angustifolia.

[source]: it is the fruit of Hippophae rhamnoides L.

[picking]: the ripe fruits are picked from October to November and dried in the sun.

[character and taste]: the fruit is spherical or oblate, with several conglutination, and the diameter of each fruit is 5-8mm. The surface is orange yellow or brownish red, wrinkled, with short peduncle or peduncle scar at the base, and residual style at the top. The flesh is oily and soft. The seed is obliquely ovate, about 4mm long and 2mm wide, brown and glossy on the surface, with a longitudinal groove in the middle. The seed coat is hard, and the kernel is milky white and oily. Qi is weak, sour and astringent. Warm in nature, sour and astringent in taste.

[plant morphology]: deciduous shrub or tree, 5-10m high, with stout spines. When young, scales densely brown. Leaves alternate, linear or linear lanceolate, obtuse at both ends, densely covered with pale white scales below; petiole very short. Flowers: first leaves open, dioecious; short racemes axillary on first year branches; flowers small, pale yellow, male perianth 2-lobed, stamens 4; female perianth tube saccate, apical 2-lobed. Fruit fleshy, subglobose, surrounded by perianth tube, orange yellow. The flowering period is from March to April and the fruiting period is from September to October. Born by the river, mountain, grassland.

[growing place]: North China, Northwest China, Sichuan and Tibet.

[chemical constituents]: isorhamnetin, isorhamnetin-3-b-d-glucoside, isorhamnetin-3-b-rutinoside, quercetin and kaempferol containing oligosides.

Function indications: relieving cough and eliminating phlegm, eliminating food and resolving stagnation, promoting blood circulation and dispersing blood stasis. It is used for cough and phlegm, dyspepsia, abdominal pain due to food accumulation, blood stasis, blood stasis and amenorrhea.