subject: Omega 7 - Sea Buckthorn [print this page] Sea buckthorn has long been known as a medicinal plant. Even in ancient Greece, its leaves and young branches were used for the treatment of soldiers and horses. But later on it was gradually forgotten. Only in the last three or four decades buckthorn again became widespread.
Medicinal raw materials are the fruits, leaves and seeds of a plant. Fruits harvested when they reached maturity. Collect produce is picking with branches or truncation of the branches immediately after ripening. Shaking off fruits can be done in winter in areas with frost-resistant, no thaw. The best time for gathering berries - morning or evening hours when the air temperature does not fall below -15 C. In sunny weather it is better not to collect berries, since the thawing of the shell can be easily separated from the pulp. In the frozen fruit can be stored up to six months.
Berries contain vitamins B, large amounts of vitamin C. Vitamin C is well maintained even after processing of the fruit. They contain apple acid, carotene, fatty oil (Omega 7), minerals, iron and other substances.
In medicine for the treatment of beriberi used sea buckthorn juice, at least - the various tinctures and aqueous extracts, syrup and butter. In folk medicine other parts of the plant are also used. Poultices of the leaves rheumatism are treated.
Particular value is sea buckthorn oil content in the fruit pulp reaches 8-9 per cent. The official pharmacy, it is used for treatment of burns, bedsores, frostbite, senile cataracts, gastritis, diabetes, anemia, hypertension, various ulcers, atherosclerosis.
When outside the damaged area of skin diseases, cleaned, applied pipette sea buckthorn oil, then placing a gauze bandage. Dressings changed every other day. The treatment of various ulcers before applying sea buckthorn oil are best washed with a solution of penicillin. Gastric ulcer oil is taken orally to 1 teaspoon 2-3 times a day.
