Sea buckthorn leaves are effective in promoting blood circulation and dissipating blood stasis, relieving cough and phlegm, strengthening the spleen and eliminating food, which can help improve the symptoms of spleen deficiency with low food intake, cough and phlegm, and chest paralysis with blood stasis (tightness and pain in the chest).
Sea buckthorn leaf is the dried leaf of Chinese sea buckthorn and Yunnan sea buckthorn, which is a customary medicine for the folk, and is not included in Chinese Pharmacopoeia. This medicine is warm, sour and astringent in nature, and can be attributed to the spleen, stomach, lung and heart meridians.
It is good at activating blood circulation and dispersing blood stasis, relieving cough and phlegm, strengthening the spleen and eliminating food, and is mostly used for abdominal pain due to food accumulation (the food is indigestible and stops accumulating in the stomach), deficiency of the spleen with low food intake, chest paralysis and heart pain, amenorrhea due to blood stasis and blood stasis, stagnation and swelling due to fall and fall and cough with excessive phlegm, and so on.
The traditional medicine of sea buckthorn is its mature fruit, which is recorded as sea buckthorn in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia. This medicine has the same efficacy and effect as sea buckthorn leaves, and is often combined with maitake to treat heat diseases with two injuries of qi and fluid, and chronic diseases with insufficient qi and fluid. Combined with Astragalus, it can also improve weakness of spleen qi (weak spleen qi), spleen and stomach qi and yin.
Whether using sea buckthorn leaves or sea buckthorn berries, patients should not use them blindly and indiscriminately, but must combine them with their own conditions and follow the guidance of professional Chinese medicine practitioners.