Seabuckthorn fruit- Nature’s Nutrition and Medicine Store

Seabuckthorn berry fruit, Hippophae rhamnoides- common species is a nature's gift to mankind.
It has many nutritional properties that are being further explored now.  This has led to it's commercial usage for various medicinal and cosmetic purposes. There are many products available in the Indian market in the form of herbal tea, berry extract , antioxidant drink, massage oil and like

Seabuckthorn 

 Seabuckthorn fruits and leaves are rich in  vitamins C, E , A, B2 and B1, omega fatty acids (6, 7 &9) and minerals.Its seed oil is effective in hypoxia induced pulmonary or cerebral oedema, against cold exposure, artherogenesis and UV protection.

                                        

                                       

      It lows down skin aging, promotes wound healing. Its liver protecting effect and use in coronary heat diseases (CHD) is significant. In India it is being used in several pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals and cosmaticeuticals  industries besides providing effective fence and check on soil erosion to farms, fields, river  banks and fodder and feed to wild life in harsh climate of high altitudes

Return, out of it, is estimated to be Rs700 crores annually, presently Rs 3 crores only.

     

The oil is vaso- relaxant and used in cosmetics

                                       

Seabuckthorn fruit (Hippophae rhamnoides, H. salicifolia and H. tibetana) covers more than 1200 hectare wild growth in J&K (Ladakh), H. P. (Lahaul- Spiti), Sikkim, Arunachal and Uttarakhand states of India.Its presence and potentials were highlighted by DRDO - Defence Research and Development Organization (the blogger being a pioneer scientist) in early 1990s to be researched upon later by more than two dozen science laboratories in India.

    The plant is used and researched upon in Mongolia, Nepal, China, Russia, Canada and several other temperate countries.  As studied by DRDO its fruits and leaves have significant cyto-protective,  immuno- modulatory, radioprotection and antioxidant properties.

     

Further details https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippophae

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New Age Protected Cultivation in India

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