The efficacy of sea buckthorn is not gender-specific, and its effects are to invigorate blood circulation, dissipate blood stasis, relieve cough and phlegm, invigorate the spleen and eliminate food, and is mainly used for treating spleen deficiency and hypophagia, etc. It is the dried mature fruit of the plant Huperziaceae.
Sea buckthorn is the dried and matured fruit of sea buckthorn in the family of Hu Xuan Zi, with sour taste, sweet and warm nature, belonging to the lung, spleen, stomach and heart meridians, its effects are strengthening the spleen and eliminating foodstuffs, activating blood circulation and dispersing blood stasis, relieving coughs and removing phlegm, and it is mainly used for treating cough and phlegm, deficiency of the spleen with low food quantity, food stagnation (the food is indigestible and stops storing up in the stomach), abdominal pain, stasis with blood stagnation and menstrual occlusion, paresthesias (stuffiness in the chest), cardiac pain and stasis with bruises, and other illnesses.
Seabuckthorn is taken internally by decoction, and the adverse reactions and contraindications of seabuckthorn are not clear.
It should be noted that if patients need to use sea buckthorn, it is recommended to use it under the guidance of a doctor to avoid delaying the condition.