The side effects and contraindications of drinking sea buckthorn in water are not yet clear, sea buckthorn has the effect of eliminating food and strengthening the spleen, and should be used in accordance with medical advice.
The pharmacopoeia has not clearly pointed out the adverse reactions and contraindications of sea buckthorn, and there is no relevant literature research pointing out the side effects of sea buckthorn in water.
Sea buckthorn is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, sour and astringent in flavor, warm in nature; it belongs to lung, heart, spleen and stomach meridians. Sea buckthorn has the effect of strengthening the spleen and eliminating food, relieving cough and phlegm, activating blood circulation and dispersing blood stasis; it can be used for abdominal pain due to food accumulation (indigestion of food and stagnation of food in the stomach), deficiency of the spleen with little food, chest paralysis (stuffy pain in the chest), heartache, cough and phlegm, bruises, stasis and blood stasis and menstrual closure, and so on.
Literature records that sea buckthorn can be combined with licorice, gardenia, broad woodruff and so on for the treatment of cough and phlegm. For the treatment of stomachache and menstrual disorders, the product can be directly used in decoction. The use of sea buckthorn in the treatment of diseases should be under the guidance of doctor’s diagnosis.