Dried sea buckthorn fruits can be used as Chinese herbal medicine, its drug name is sea buckthorn, using this product to make water to drink as tea for lowering blood lipids has a certain effect.
The drug source of sea buckthorn is the dried mature fruit of sea buckthorn, which is sour, astringent and warm in nature, and has the effects of strengthening spleen and eliminating food, relieving cough and phlegm, activating blood circulation and dissipating blood stasis, etc. It can be used in the treatment of spleen deficiency with low food intake, food stagnation (indigestion of food and stagnation of food in the stomach), abdominal pain, cough and phlegm, stasis of blood and blood circulation and stagnation of blood and stagnation of blood and blood circulation.
Modern pharmacological research shows that sea buckthorn polysaccharide, total flavonoids and sea buckthorn oil contained in sea buckthorn oil and other chemical components, can play a role in lowering blood lipids, lowering blood viscosity, anti-thrombosis, so the use of this product to make water instead of tea to drink for lowering blood lipids have a certain effect.
It should be noted that the tea can play a limited role in the efficacy, not instead of specialized drugs, high blood fat, such as the need for medication to control, but also under the guidance of a physician to follow the doctor’s instructions to standardize the use of medication, not blindly by themselves to use Chinese herbs to make water instead of tea to drink.